summary--hooked on crime

The largest group of career criminals, a dozen of men and one woman, gather together outside the prison system in Salvation Army in Vancouver, they assemble Crime Addiction Anonymous. The purpose of their weekly gathering is to share the experiences of crime addiction, a illness as tenacious as dependency on alcohol or drugs. The program founder, Mingo, was one of them a year ago. He claims that the program saves his life and named the program '' Harbour Light''. The program goes smoothly is because the program is created by the members not imposed on them. The program adopt the same stratedy as alcohol, nicotine and drug addiction have, 12-step. Yet, somebody thinks ''addiction'' is just another better word to label the bad deeds into a appealing and sexy one. Some members of this program claim that the program is really helpful. Though to have everyone with the addiction change is difficult, yet, with the help of the program, Mingo believes that he can help everyone and tolerant every difficulties he enconters.