The following story and questions are an example of the text and curriculum that are in a Crime Prevention Cognitive Lifeskills Workbook.

Jason, born in 1958. His grandfather, Ralph Johnson, had a negative effect on his posterity with the exception of Jason, his cousin Becky and some other cousins. The whole Johnson family was still busy with drug abuse, anger, theft, violence, prostitution, welfare, broken relationships and a host of other crimes and bad habits. His mother, a drug addict and a prostitute, went away for a long time, so to defend the children of its own.

Jason once robbed a car dealership. He was soon at the juvenile arrest and during his stay he visited the life of a cognitive skills course such as this. Because of his willingness to improve, which naturally had a great influence on him. He was flat road, disaster and worrying about his next meal.

After Jason's release, he soon reported to his probation officer. She asked him about the things he had learned to help out of life. He told her:

I had the same direction as all my familyaddictions, jail, anger and destruction. Subconsciously, I was programmed with the lie that I was not good, and I lived in the lower half. I found out that I am much better than I thought I ever was. I have also learned that I make not responsible for the misuse of a home.

I've learned that regardless of the fact that I didn't have power over my early days, before I completely take control of the present. I am a brand new man every day, and I can forgive the wrong done to me. I can forgive and forget the election, so I continue with my life. My past has no control over my future.

I've learned that I can not exist and the blame my parents or anyone else for all my questions. Life is not always fair, and I have to get the most out of my situation. The only way I can let go with my life, the past is on.

The Life Skills class is to carry me that I am a valuable person, and I have infinite potential, that my life is amazing gift filled with a variety of fresh and beautiful views, and that I have to conquer in a position to my problem if I another wish.

I have learned that the beating, smashing into walls, burned with cigarettes, may go hungry, feeling shame and terror grow ever live without me to a better, more caring person. I have learned that harsh conditions and conflicts can help me grow stronger if I decide to learn something from.

And finally, I realized that I have control of my own ship. I can carry it anywhere I want. If I did not change, I will keep my course suffer consequences that are harmful for my actions and my life is getting harder and harder until I either die or change.

Questions:

1) Jason was a sufferer, and his young life he was not in control of his family or environment. Well, as an adult, what is its mission? _______________________________________________________________

2) Is there a lot of men and women in the U.S. who have suffered emotional damage from childhood? ________ Name a few of the results of abuse in childhood? _______________________________________________________________

3) What do you think? Does Jason have the power to become a successful person? ______ Will it be easy? ______ The fruits of labor are worth? ________

4) Life is just shortened to one sentence. It works like this: If you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you received. If Jason's family still do, drugs, stealing, suggesting they always? _____________________________________________________________

5) How will she ever be able to change what they get? _____________________________________________________________

6) If you drove around and asked a hundred men and women, what is the meaning of life, and what it is that they desire from life before they die, what would they say? ______________________________________________________________