Case Study Of Larry Darnell Booker's Case

Since its inception, Curran realized that ex-offenders needed more than just a job when they got out. Safer began to expand its focus on other areas after placement was made. These programs have expanded to include education, vocational training, addiction counseling, housing, and employment. Safer’s primary objective is to assist youth

John Doe is an individual that left his country in an effort to make a better life. However, he does not have legal status in America and was recently arrested for shoplifting merchandise, which was valued over $1,000. At the time of his arrest, John voluntarily began to make incriminating statements to the arresting officers. At the police station, detectives conducted an interview of John asking him about the theft. John Doe has had no prior arrests, is 35 years old, and most of John Doe’s family still resides in his home country. Due to the amount of money involved, the crime is deemed a felony and John was arrested and placed in the county jail in Toms River, NJ. He is

As the story continues Larry begins to lose his way and gets in trouble, Lucia tries to protect him from the harm that is coming to him but he continues to make it increasingly difficult for her. When Larry gets in an argument with Lucia about working for bootleggers he ends up pushing her, which is one of the most disrespectful action he could have taken, "The mother rushed across to him and hit him... He gave her a push that sent her staggering... The Le Cinglatas were aghast" (Puzo 69). Not only has Larry disrespected his mother but he did it in front of other people, truly embarrassing her. When Larry disrespects Lucia, it is a sign that she is losing her oldest son to the American ways more and more, which makes her worry for his safety in America. Instead of stressing over losing her son to America, Lucia steps back and lets him figure out what to do with his life on his own.

This symbolically gives the reader an idea that Larry LaSalle likes Nicole, which upsets Francis because he loves her too. He is scared that he might lose her. Before Larry rapes Nicole he mentions that “… you and Nicole are special to me”. Larry did this deliberately so that both of them would believe in him and trust his words. Larry is manipulative because he tells Francis to “get going”.

Francis always did what Larry told him to do and never disobey him. Larry’s has power over Francis, he can actually make Francis feel tired by saying he looks it, this shows Francis believe in his word, E.g if he looks tired then he must be tried. Larry is arrogant, he is confident that he will never get caught for his evil and unheroic acts. “He was at the door, a shadow now, turning the knob, whistling a tune… whistling softly as he stepped through the doorway…” shows Larry’s calm behaviour as he leaving the Wreck Centre after raping Nicole suggests that he is very confident that she will not report him, or that even if she does, nobody will believe her because he is a

This also makes him have suicidal thoughts. Larry’s two favorite student of the Wreck Center now hate him because of his obsession. He tries to make up for his sins by going to war and creating the Wreck Center; but, no one can forgive Larry for the horrid things that he has done. Especially Nicole and Francis.

The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice Office of Prevention and Victim Services provides voluntary youth crime prevention programs through the state of Florida. The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice mission is to increase public safety by reducing juvenile delinquency through operative prevention, intervention and treatment services that builds up families for a turn around of a brighter future of a troubled youth. The main functions of these programs as will be indicated in this paper are designed to reduce juvenile crime and protect public safety. These programs that will be stated main focused is to help those high-risk juveniles and those who display problem behaviors such as ungovernability, truancy, running away from home and other pre-delinquent behaviors. The state of Florida addresses these problems by contracting this delinquency programs prevention services and awarding grants to this local providers throughout the state of Florida.

To ascertain whether practitioners attribute the desistance of young people from offending behaviour to the effective practice of targeted youth programs. Young offender’s recidivism has been said to be the consequence of ridiculous control programs attracting reduced compliance from young offenders according to (Kempen and Young 2014). Practitioners competences has been put under scrutiny with critiques such as (Andrews, Donald and James 2010) and (Petrosino et all 2010), alleging that they sometimes deviate from their professional requisites. Much of the criticism was specifically for the private practitioners rendering inconsistent treatment regime, lacking commitment to the recommended practice. Thus, this evident knowledge gap has failed young offenders to satisfy the targeted programs aims of desisting from antisocial behaviours and other criminal activities (Woods et al

Bradley R. E. Wright, Avshalom Caspi, Terrie E. Moffitt and Ray Paternoster Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 2004 41: 180 DOI: 10.1177/0022427803260263 The online version of this article can be found at: http://jrc.sagepub.com/content/41/2/180

Clearly, there is a need to make communities safe and assist a population of African American male youth, that are headed towards a continued self destruction path, of criminal life. Causes such as lack of employment, lack of education, social disparities and an injustice justice system, leads to high recidivism rates among African-American juvenile offenders. It is imperative that programs are implemented in areas such as rehabilitation, intervention, job ready skills, substance abuse treatment, educational skills and anti-social behavior programs, to help move the African American male juvenile youth into a positive direction. In a direction of not having to make life criminal choices, from living in communities of disparities and

There are indications that Brian emulates his delinquent peers to a degree that is worrisome, but he only sometimes goes along with their negative influences. He reports he steals for his friends to maintain their allegiance. Brian is helped by the positive influence of people with whom he has good relationships. Brian maintains contact with some peers who are responsible and goal-focused and has a best friend who is supportive and a positive influence. He has four positive prosocial adult relationships in the community. There is no reported gang involvement or past association. Brian is currently not involved in any prosocial community organizations or activities. However, he and his family do attend church on occasion. Ms. Ferguson indicates her neighborhood has no impact on Brian’s behavior. This officer is familiar with the area the family resides in and feels that any negative neighborhood impact would be a matter of personal choice.

Jordan reported using marijuana had no impact on his actions, and he just liked the way being high felt. Individual and family counseling with a substance abuse component was effective for Jordan. He was able to

Larry was a very violent man guy. Larry 's mother had passed away nine years before the shooting. After that Larry got more violent. Larry’s father had lived with him at the time and neighbors would see him being violent to his father. In the months before the shooting, people who knew Ashbrook say he became increasingly paranoid, certain that he was being framed for serial murder and other crimes that he did not commit. Larry had also been afraid that the CIA were targeting him, and he reported psychological warfare, assaults by co-workers and being drugged by the police. Just days before the shooting he voiced these concerns to a newspaper, saying "I want someone to tell my story, no one will listen to me; no one will believe me."(murderpedia)

Introduction: Recidivism or, habitual relapses into crime, has time and time again proven to be an issue among delinquents, which thereby increases the overall juvenile prison population. This issue has become more prevalent than what we realize. Unless a unit for measuring a juvenile’s risk of recidivism is enacted and used to determine a system to promote effective prevention, than the juvenile prison population will continue to increase. Our court system should not only focus on punishing the said juvenile but also enforce a program or policy that will allow for prevention of recidivism. So the question remains, how can recidivism in the juvenile prison population be prevented so that it is no longer the central cause for increased

Research on recidivism reveals a variety of different ways to define and measure its effectiveness on the outcome. One instrument widely used in assessing offenders is the Level of Service Inventory-Revised (LSI-R). The LSI-R was developed with short-term offenders and community supervisees. It assesses largely risk factor for recidivism and is designed to inform parole management decisions (Manchak et al., 2008). The 54 items of the LSI-R assess ten “risk-needs” factors: criminal history, education/employment, financial, family/marital, accommodation, leisure/recreation, peers/companions, alcohol/drug problems, emotional/personal, and attitude/orientation (p. 478). Results indicate that the LSI-R moderately predicts general, but not necessarily violent recidivism (p. 477). The utility of the LSI-R in predicting community recidivism is well established for probationers and minor offenders.