Saving Young Men from Murder: The Homeboy Story

Podcast: File on 4 Investigates · BBC Radio 4

Opublikowano: 2026-08-18

Psychiatrist Dr Gwen Adshead has spent more than 30 years working with violence perpetrators. In this programme, she visits Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles, the largest gang rehabilitation in the world. The charity, which offers training, education, therapy and other services, was set up by a Jesuit Priest, Father Gregory Boyle. He was responding to the so-called “decade of death,” in the late 1980s, as his neighbourhood was terrorised by gang violence. "There were shootings all the time. I buried eight teenagers in a three-week period", he said. But this is a good news story. Today, 40 year...