Watch Video:
https://video-alexanderstreet-com.proxy.lib.odu.edu/watch/g-dog?context=channel:freida-lee-mock
Describe the comprehensive services offered to current and former gang members at Homeboy Industries.
1. Father Greg Boyle believes that “Nothing stops a bullet like a job.” Discuss the various reasons why/how employment can facilitate gang and crime desistance.
2. What do you think allows the program at Homeboy Industries, led by Father Greg Boyle (“G-Dog”), to be so successful at reducing gang membership and recidivism?
3.Highly successful community-based intervention programs are relatively uncommon, but Homeboy Industries boasts a 70% success rate in gang desistance. Now, think beyond gang desistance: In terms of dimensions such as attitude changes, employment, etc., how else could this program’s effectiveness be measured, based on what it provides? What are other meaningful indicators of change and how should they be defined?
4. Provide your overall reactions to the film and to what you learned.
