Saving Young Men from Murder: The Homeboy Story

British Psychiatrist Dr Gwen Adshead, who has spent a lifetime working with violence perpetrators, visits Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles, the largest gang rehabilitation in the world. It offers, training, education, therapy and other services, was set up by a Jesuit Priest, Father Gregory Boyle. It was his response to the so-called “decade of death,” in the late 1980’s, as his neighbourhood was terrorised by gang violence. Today, 40 years on, it’s been called one of the most successful gang rehabilitation organisations in the world. Talking to Father Boyle and several former gang members, Dr Adshead explores the Home Boy model of rehabilitation and asks if something similar could work in other parts of the world.

Presenter: Dr Gwen Adshead
Producer: Jim Frank
Production co-ordination: Katie Morrison.
Mixed by Rod Farquhar
Editor: Clare Fordham

(Image: Father Gregory Boyle, known there as “Father G.” Credit: Jim Frank/BBC)