Master’s thesis for UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, 2011
Imagine a world where prisons are not seen as a solution for violence, and gang affiliation is addressed by affected communities who treat it as a consequence of transnational economic violence, forced migration to the U.S. and intergenerational trauma that results. Imagine that the people organizing youth, preventing and responding to gang-related violence are former prisoners and sometimes even current gang members whose work is seen as part of individual and community efforts to heal. Such a world exists, and San Francisco’s Community Response Network (Mission District) is creating it daily, against all the odds.
