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1. Case Study Revisited Worksheet
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Case Study Revisited Worksheet
Review the case study you created in the Week 1 individual
assignment. Imagine you are able to turn back time and
intervene at various life stages to prevent this individual’s later
crime sprees. What intervention and prevention programs might
you implement?
Answer each question listed below in a 75- to 150-word
response.
Include a minimum of 2 properly formatted APA in-text
citations in your responses, as well as an APA reference for
each source at the end of the worksheet.
1. What early interventions and prevention programs would you
suggest during early childhood? Include one suggested program
in your response, explain the program and its objectives, and
indicate why you chose it for your case.
2. What community-based intervention programs would you
suggest during the child’s adolescent years after the initiation
of delinquent acts? Include one suggested program in your
response, explain the program and its objectives, and indicate
why you chose it for your case.
3. Assuming the individual was placed in a juvenile correctional
facility for some period of time, what programs within the
juvenile correctional system would you suggest? Include one
suggested program in your response, explain the program and its
3. the most crucial stage in his life which had long implications in
his later life. He was assaulted there again and again and a time
came when he started liking it which was a very unusual
reaction to expect from a young kid. When his mother got a
little financial stability, she got him out of the orphanage but
the damage was done which was never realized until late. Even
after getting out of the orphanage, at the tender age of 12 years
he met a boy who he had a sexual relationship with and he
introduced him to gruesome acts of coprophagia and urolagnia.
These acts induced further illness in him as he started going to
public bathrooms to look at young boys get undress. He hads an
inclination towards obscenity. His obsession grew with time. He
was attracted to every obscene act and practice, for example, he
once visited a wax museum where his fascination with the
bisection of the penis started. Over the years he kidnapped,
raped, mutilated, killed and ateeaten a number of young boys
and girls. Although three cases have been proved against him
and he was suspected in few more, were but he claimed that his
victims were over 100 and in different places. These claims
were not proven or categorized whether he was talking about
rapes, murders or cannibalism (Aken, 2015).
ACES score:
Childhood trauma has severe and lifelong implications foron the
mental health of an individual. In the case of Albert Fish, his
family history of mental illness and his childhood trauma had
their share in making him the cruel criminal he was. The ACES
score shows that his score is 8 out of 10. The major risk factor
which contributed to such a high score is his parent's
relationship with him. His father died and his mother left him at
the mercy of an orphanage. These conditions humiliated him
and made him afraid in the start but then he got usedsued to it
and started enjoying it. His family had mental illness and it is
right to assume that he was pushed, grabbed and slapped by
them and even if they did not do it, he. He was definitely
subjected to physical violence in his orphanage where he stated
that boys did things, which they should not have. The exact age
4. of the boys is not mentioned who assaulted him but there are
records of him getting assaulted during his time at the
orphanage. He did not have enough to eat or suitable clothes to
wear. He must have felt like no one in his family loved him and
that is why they left him at the orphanage. His father's early
death must have impacted him. The mental illness of people
near to him including his mother, sister, and brother were also
huge risk factors into molding his mindset in its shape.
Extra familial and family factors:
Family is where the roots of a person are. If roots are weak,
none can become strong and prosperous. The issue with Albert
Fish started with his family. He had a very troubled family and
their relation with each other and even with themselves is way
too complicated and complexed. His father is 43 years older
than his mother is the starting point of understanding that things
were not well. After that, he had a family history of mental
illness. His mother suffered from hallucinations. His brother
and sister were also mental patients. His uncle along with three
other relatives suffered from mental illness. These family
factors contributed a lot to his mental illness. A healthy family
and safe environment are required by every child for his/ her
nourishment and healthy mind but in the case of Albert Ffish,
all these factors were missing. He lacked a normal healthy
family. He was raised in an orphanage where his basic needs
were not met rather he was beaten, whipped and assaulted. After
such circumstances, the people he met in his life also introduced
him to further mental illness. All these factors had their impact
on making Fish the monster he was (Sharma, 2018).
Protective Factors:
A small light can brighten a darkened room. All the factors and
conditions around Albert Ffish were making him a mentally ill
person but only if there were some protective factors if havoc
could have been avoided. The time frame show's that when he
was married and had kids, he was not mainly involved in any
major ill-doings but before and after his marriage he was
involved in multiple crimes. This family was his was a
5. protective factor which helped him reduce the risk of his
involvement in crimes. If he had one or two sincere friends and
a little supportive family, he would not have been involved in
crimes. He lacked the protective factors which he needed to stay
sane and live a healthy life.
While you did a very good job addressing the points of the
paper, you had quite a few writing errors. 90/100
References
Aken, C. v. (2015). The Use of Criminal Profilers in the
Prosecution of Serial Killers. Themis: Research Journal of
Justice Studies and Forensic Science, 127-149.
Sharma, M. (2018). The Development of Serial Killers: A
Grounded Theory Study. Eastern Illinois University, 10-106.