PRISON FELLOWSHIP: Violent Crime

Christians have a responsibility to examine our media sources and separate truth from spin. How do we apply a biblical lens to difficult issues like violent crime?

When Dr. James Gilligan started work as a prison psychiatrist in a medium-security facility in Massachusetts, he took with him a pre-formed perspective on the men he would be treating.

“I had been taught up to that point that violent criminals were untreatable sociopaths, that they would manipulate you,” he remembers.