Jasmine's Protective Factors

Negative and Positive Influences We all know the road to recovery never is an easy path. With Jasmine’s story, her risk factors outweighed her protective factors significantly. Besides being an only child, she didn’t really have any protective factors until she was deep into addiction and delinquency. One would assume Jasmine’s parents would be a protective factor due to her being an only child. That wasn’t the case though, Jasmine’s risk factors in the community, as well as her mindset of doing whatever she wanted to do, outweighed the protective factor of her parents. The community she grew up in was full of risk to a young child. The fact that she was threatened into smoking meth when she was only nine years old, is baffling and a perfect

It isn’t a normal “kids being kids” situation to steal a car high on drugs. Jasmine needed help and handling the case informally would have done nothing to help her. Jasmine needed a wakeup call and one might assume sending her through the system would have been a great way to do it. I do agree in not trying Jasmine as an adult as well. What Jasmine did was not serious enough to try her as an adult, as well as it was her first offense for this crime. If she would have killed someone in the process of stealing the car or while driving the car, then I would lean more towards trying her as an adult. Even though Jasmine said Juvenile Hall was easy to get by and she could fake her way through it, she wasn’t quite at the stage where adult jail was necessary. I feel that Jasmine is able to be rehabilitated, sending her to the long-term residential treatment program was the right call with her, especially since that is what made her change into a better

Jasmine was simply an out of control child which is never an easy task for a parent. It was not like her parents were negligent towards her or fed into her drug addiction. Could they have done a better job, probably, but in my mind I would not charge the parents. She would skip school pretending to be sick so that she could go get high. Her having to pretend to be sick shows that her parents would not let her skip for no reason which supports her parents providing reasonable supervision. From what was told in the story, the only thing different the parents could have done was send her to a treatment facility before she was ordered to one. With that being said, her family’s financial situation was not discussed, thus not supplying sufficient enough evidence to deem the parents responsible for a lack of