Summary Of Willie Bosket Jr.

In this article, the writer talked about Willie Bosket Jr. The person who was in the Woodbourne Correctional Facility Prison. He said that the legislators of New York were thinking to give Bosket a death plenty for him and for other criminals like him. He described Bosket as a monster. The state of New York put Bosket in solitary confinement cell built especially for him and tracked by three video cameras trained on him. Because of Bosket monster personality, the guard must chained him when the attorney visits him. As the writer said, Bosket has led a life of violent crime in and out of the prison, such as killed two people in New York at the age of 15 and robbed and knifed a 72- year old man. Also, in prison, he smashed and stabbed two guards, set fire, sodomize several inmates, threatened to kill the president of the United States, and more other crimes.

He said that Bosket grew up in a fatherless home and tested to have an antisocial personality disorder at age 9. Also, Bosket raised in a series of institutions which Bosket calls his “surrogate mother”. After that, he talked about Bosket’s father life to compare between the two personalities. He said that Bosket’s father was as same as his son. Both of them commit crimes; however, they never met each other. He said although the case of Bosket was different and the sociologist said it may be indeterminable, they said Bosket’s personality and behaviors were shaped be genetics or childhood experience. The writer blame the total institutions, such as reform school and prisons to the little of human contact, nurturing, care, neglect, and abuse that effect the behaviors of the