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Father Gregory J. Boyle, SJ, is a native of Los Angeles, a Jesuit priest, and founder of Homeboy Industries, an economic development and jobs program begun in 1988 for at-risk and gang-involved youth. "A great many kids in my neighborhood don't plan their futures; they plan their funerals." G-Dog and the Homeboys presents the story of Boyle's unconventional ministry and its extraordinary successes. In this expanded, updated edition, Celeste Fremon has returned to East L.A. to report on gang members she first profiled fifteen years ago. Using their individual stories as models, she examines what policy makers should know about gang intervention now, years later.
About the previous edition:"[Celeste Fremon] offers [Father] Boyle as an example of how approaching gang violence with an eye towards prevention and intervention can be much more effective than simply aiming for 'lock-'em-up and-throw-away-the-key' suppression. Throughout she includes the words of the gang members themselves as they reflect on their lives and what would aid them in improving their circumstances. In this new edition, she adds an afterword that follows up on the fates of a number of the individuals discussed in the main body of the text."—streetgangs.com"
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Dewijanti Hardi
reviewed G-Dog and the Homeboys: Father Greg Boyle and the Gangs of East Los Angeles on June 09, 2010
G-Dog and the Homeboys
I read this book about Father Greg Boyle's work with the gangs in East L.A. after I read Boyle's own, recently published Tattoos on the Heart. I think this is the right order.
Although I knew something about Homeboy Industries, one of the business Boyle started to help gang members turn their lives around, I was amazed by some of the stories told in this book. I laughed at some of them, cried about others.
I learned a great deal about what motivates young people to join gangs, and about the deep-down goodness of the gang members. I learned how much the homies love Father Greg because he has loved them first, and how much resistance he met from his Church, the Jesuit Order, and the L.A. police department. I also discovered my own prejudices about the people served and loved by Father Greg.
I found this book to be enlightening in the same way as Three Cups of Tea, and a most enjoyable read.
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