The Harmony House is co-sponsoring our first-ever community-wide seminar and book signing, this Saturday, June 27 at 10:00 a.m. at the Turner Chapel AME Church Recreation Center, at 545 Kenneth E. Marcus Way (formerly Hyde Dr); in Marietta, GA 30060.

The seminar will feature brothers, attorneys and co-authors of the book “When the Cops Come Knockin”, Trinity Townsend and Travis Townsend. Though the target audience is youth and young adults, the event is open to the community as the presenters will have a universal message as how to stay on the right side of the law.

Reasons to attend this event:

• Parents should be equipped to protect their children from risky situations and influential peers.  Parents of youth and teens everywhere realize the increasing impact of peer influence on their children, but it’s not always easy to know all of your child’s friends. According to the American Society of Criminology, crime research has long suggested the association with delinquent peers is an important predictor of delinquent behavior.
• There is an increased need for law-related education among teens today. The Committee on Equal Justice For All explains there is a greater need today to provide teenagers with “Law-Related Education”—noting that everyday new laws are being placed into effect or enforced and many teenagers are unknowingly committing crimes.
• For African American, urban youth, and teens in particular, the need for law-related education and empowerment is urgent.
• According to the Center on Disease Control and Prevention’s annual Youth Risk Behavior Survey, in 2001 whites and blacks reported similar rates of carrying a weapon (whites 17.9%, African Americans 15.2%),and similar rates of carrying a gun (whites 5.5%, African Americans 6.5%).  Yet, black youth represent 32% of all weapons arrests, and were arrested for weapons offenses at a rate twice that of whites.
• Blacks report being in a physical fight at a similar rate, but were arrested for aggravated assault at a rate
  nearly three times that of whites.
• And, while they represent a small percentage of U.S. males, the prevalence of imprisonment for black males
  is almost six times that of white males, and Hispanic males are imprisoned three times as often.

 To preview the book and learn more , click  http://www.copscomeknockin.com/.