Shirley Johnson Case Summary

Case analysis of the Johnson’s. Shirley Johnson mother of two children was caught trafficking drugs for her boyfriend in an out of state location. Both children were with her at the time of the innocent and were taking into custody. Shirley’s contacted her grandma to recover her children form foster care. Shirley has served a year in prison, location unknown. The long distance gives her minimum contact with her son and daughter. Sherly enrolled her children into- pre-school prior to her arrest. Grandma is now the sole care provider for the two children at this- time. The analysis will apply, human captivity for making choices, developmental risk and protection, ending with diversity of life course trajectory.
HUMAN CAPTIVIEY AND CHOICE MAKING Shirley was met by officials as she exited a bus in possession of drugs with her two children. Ron age 3, and Rosalind age 5, were taking into foster custody. Shirley was trafficking drugs for her boyfriend who was not with her at the time of the arrest. Shirley contacted her mother to help remove her children from custody. Shirley’s arrest location put both her children and mother in a deeper predicament. Shirley life course trajectory was altered in the decision to traffic the drugs for her boyfriend. Her boyfriend’s influence exercised personal agency, defied as allowing another individual to …show more content…
Prior to the arrest, both children were living at home and attending preschool. The arrest disturbed their daily routine and they were made to adapt a new normalcy. The oppression of being taking way from their mother and being placed in an unfamiliar setting has risk. Risk factors increase the probability of developing and maintaining problem conditions at later stages (Hutchison 2015). The appearance of their grandmother deceased some of those risk. Expressing true concern, grandma put forth the effort, time, and fuds to bring the children back to their home