ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on gang violence and the consequences of engaging in such activity. The facilitator reads through the offender’s diary which describes how Robbie engages in gang violence. As a result, a little boy is going to be paralysed from the waist down for life. The victim’s diary describes his experiences at the hands of this gang and the ways in which he had to become engaged in gang warfare himself in order to protect his own community. The offender’s diary describes how Robbie has engaged in racist attacks against the Pakistani community is his area. The attacks, he feels, have been triggered by a girl from his community being raped by a Pakistani boy on Rosedale Avenue. The young people are asked to identify what led to this gang warfare described in the diary entries and to consider what people actually get out of being members of a gang.
