G-Dog and the Homeboys: Father Greg Boyle and the Gangs of East Los Angeles

by Celeste Fremon (Author), Celeste Fremon (Introduction), Tom Brokaw (Foreword)

• New

  Paperback
  2008

  $22.74

  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.