Criminology Case Study

CRIMINOLOGY CASE STUDY

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Class There is a series of events in all our lives that leave us wondering how we got there . What wrong turn did we make to leave us in a negative situation , or what right turn did we take to leave us so fortunate ? In either case , wherever we end up resulted from one of the right or left turns we took . In this case study , we show where a little boy named Willie Bosket must have made the wrong turn . That turn led

him to events that he at one time regretted , until he came to the realization that the system was indeed against him and so was fate

And maybe it was

BACKGROUND

Does it sound too much like a family legacy ? Does it really hold true that if dad was bad , I guess I am too ? In the case of Willie Bosket , it seems he really believed this scenario . Butch Bosket , the father although considered intelligent , but with a schizophrenic personality knew that if his son didn 't turn his life around , he would turn out to be just like him . So , throughout Butch 's incarceration , he sent letters to his son to go to school , learn , and stay on the right track Unfortunately , those letters were sent to a boy 's detention center

On the other hand , when Willie heard that his father had committed one crime after another , he grew excited to think that his father was a hero figure . So , when he received these letters from his father encouraging school and the right life , he was disappointed

Bosket 's grandfather , Pud , was of the same nature . At an insult , he would cut with a knife . His son James , Butch 's father , was also a murdering thief and soon , when people heard the name Bosket , they backed away . When Butch 's mother was seventeen , she left him with her mother who never fed him and didn 't care for him and he found himself on the streets doing anything he could for a morsel of food . It was an eventuality that Butch 's life would soon lead to crime and prison , but he tried to go the straight road when he got out , so he married and moved to Milwaukee and soon had a child , Willie . But , try as he did disaster finally struck and through an altercation at a pawn shop , Butch stabbed the owner and then a customer and ended up back in prison

It was like history repeating itself for Willie Left to take care of himself .foster homes .no food .and crime

According to Court TV Crime Library , Willie was living out a legacy that had come down to him from a history of violence rooted in one of the most savage counties in the south : Edgefield County , South Carolina His ancestors were slaves in this county , at Mount Willing . The first Bosket appears on voting records in 1868 , after the slaves were freed All...