This 8 page report discusses the problems of one 16- year-old delinquent male and addresses issues such as intervention, social strain theory interaction and labeling theory. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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with intense, pale-blue eyes. He is the only child of parents who divorced when he was nine. From the age of nine to 14, he had very limited contact with
his father, despite the fact that his father lived less than 20 miles from John and his mother. John stabbed his 19 year-old half-brother when he was 12. He
disappeared for four days once when he was 13. Only a month after his disappearance he was arrested for public intoxication, possession of cocaine, and vandalism and was taken
to a juvenile detention center to await a juvenile court appearance. State social workers and several corrections officers noted in Johns file that his parents arrival at the juvenile
facility necessitated a call for security officers to subdue John after a remarkably violent outburst. John describes his parents as "assholes" and is generally unwilling to discuss them beyond
that point. Regardless of his "tough-guy" attitude most of the intake counselors, as well as other socio-psycho professionals have described John as a "walking, talking cry for help." The
anger he expresses has been shocking to his parents and even the various mental health therapists he has seen. One of the most telling incidents was when he told
his fathers fiancee, Cathy, that she was insane to consider marrying somebody as self-centered as Phil. He later told Phil to get out of Cathys life and let her find
a decent man. He asked his father "havent you screwed up enough peoples lives already?" Identifying Johns Problems and Appropriate Intervention For years, Johns
parents assumed he was going through a "phase." Regardless of the fact that school administrators, teachers, and other parents called to either complain about John, demand explanations (and restitution)