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Archive for the ‘Law and Justice’ Category
The Fenger Principal
Posted: March 6, 2014 in Education, Gangs, Get Involved, Incarceration, Law and Justice, Media, Neighborhoods, Video and TV, Violence0
Prison Entrepreneurial Program (PEP) Blog
Posted: October 4, 2012 in After-care, Awareness, Daily Life, Evangelism, Gangs, Get Involved, Incarceration, Law and Justice, Mentorship, Programs, Responsible Christianity, Training and Gang CounselingThis is a great blog (and it might even look a little familiar!). Find it at:
Correctional Ministries Summit
Posted: September 18, 2012 in After-care, Awareness, Education, Gangs, Get Involved, Incarceration, Intervention, Jobs, Law and Justice, Organizations, Programs, Substance Abuse, Training and Gang CounselingThe 2013 Correctional Ministries Summit will be held at Wheaton College from May 30th to June 1st. This is a wonderful opportunity for those of us interested in working with gang members and other incarcerated youths to come together in search of more effective means of helping these youths. The Summit will help the participants in:
- Developing professionally through informative workshops
- Learning best practices from dynamic leaders in correctional ministry
- Building relationships with others who share your ministry passion
- Speaking meaningfully to the issues of mass incarceration
When: May 30 – June 1, 2013
(Thursday evening – Saturday lunch)
Where: Wheaton College, IL
For additional information please go to the website:
Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation (CAASE)
Posted: September 16, 2012 in After-care, Awareness, Daily Life, Forgiveness, Get Involved, Law and Justice, Programs, Sex and Gender, Sex Trafficking, Substance Abuse, Violence, WomenChicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation (CAASE) addresses the culture, institutions, and individuals that perpetuate profit from or support sexual exploitation. Their work includes prevention, policy reform, and legal services. If you are in need of help to get out of prostitution or sex trafficking, please contact CAASE by phone at 773.244.2230. Find out more on their website at:
Books Recommended by the National Gang Crimes Research Center
Posted: January 27, 2012 in Awareness, Books and Book Reviews, Education, Gangs, Incarceration, Intervention, Law and Justice, Law Enforcement, Neighborhoods, Organizations, Research, School and the Gang Life, Training and Gang Counseling, ViolenceSeveral informative books on Chicago gangs can be found at:
The Gang Book
Posted: January 27, 2012 in Awareness, Books and Book Reviews, Education, Gangs, Incarceration, Informational, Intervention, Law and Justice, Law Enforcement, Neighborhoods, Research, Training and Gang CounselingTags: criminal justice fields, gang involvement, gangs, prisons, violence reduction
Gangs are active on many fronts, each of which has different levels of gang involvement and needs different approaches for successful crime and violence reduction. Gangs are active on the streets, in the prisons, and in schools. They have infiltrated politics and criminal justice fields. This report discusses all of these areas. It’s the latest book on Chicago’s gangs. Loaded with information. Find it at:
https://www.chicagocrimecommission.org/ItemParent.aspx?id=14
gangs.org
Posted: January 12, 2012 in Awareness, Books and Book Reviews, Daily Life, Death, Education, Gang History, Gangs, Get Involved, Incarceration, Intervention, Law and Justice, power, Research, Training and Gang Counseling, Violence, WomenThis is a great website for those who want to know more about the gang lifestyle and how to resist it as an individual and as a community. The site is based in the Washington DC/Virginia area but has links that are valuable to those confronted by the gang culture nationwide. For more information go to :
This site will also allow you to get a free download of Henry Pachero’s book Gangs 101: Understanding the Culture of Youth Violence. Here is the link:
Dismantling Racism
Posted: March 8, 2011 in Awareness, Business and Economics, Education, Gangs, Gangs and God, Get Involved, Gospel, Housing, Incarceration, Informational, Intervention, Law and Justice, Love, Neighborhoods, Organizations, Poverty, power, Programs, Race and Ethnicity, Responsible Christianity, School and the Gang Life, Violence
Dismanling Racism by Joseph Barndt, Author. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Books, 1991.Here is a book about racism in America, written “for white people and about white people . . . by a white person.”Joseph Barndt, defining racism as “prejudice plus power,” asserts that efforts against racism have often been incorrectly focused on minority populations rather than the majority. “The cause of racism is in the white society. The effects are felt in the communities of color,” he writes. Rather than attempting to soften the effects, we need to attack the cause.
The book examines individual, institutional, and cultural racism, and includes a section on racism and the church—with particular attention to the European American traditions inherited by white congregations, which Barndt refers to provocatively as a contemporary “circumcision crowd.” The author asks congregations to incorporate multicultural aspects in its worship before the congregation becomes multicultural and to work to achieve a pluralistic, not racist, witness to the world.
and consider that…
“At the center of the Christian faith is the reminder that the time is
always right to do the right thing,” Turner said. “The church can and must
provide moral leadership that helps move the world’s nations into people of
transformation. The church has the capacity to transform itself to be an
agent of change, but this only happens when the church is engaged in the
struggle for justice.”
-Rev. Otis Turner, 1996
Arloa Sutter and Breakthrough Urban Ministries
Posted: March 8, 2011 in Awareness, Business and Economics, Education, Entrepreneuership, Evangelism, Gangs, Get Involved, Housing, Incarceration, Inspiration, Intervention, Jobs, Law and Justice, Neighborhoods, Organizations, PovertyArloa Sutter is the Founder and Executive Director of Breakthrough Urban Ministries. Breakthrough restores broken networks by providing neighborhood-based holistic services to individuals and families in Chicago’s East Garfield Park community. For more information on Arloa Sutter and Breakthrough Urban Ministries please go to:
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