Show Tfr v " V1" T"11 "'¥ f y y The Salt Lake Tribune Despite Retirement as 2nd District Juvenile Court Judge r yrypyr-- Sunday August 2 B3 - 1987 1 John Farr Larson Pursues Diligent Quest to Aid Troubled Youth Retirement is no rocking chair affair for John Farr Larson retired 2nd District Juvenile Court judge Since stepping down in 1984 he has served on many judicial committees and advisory boards including the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges National Center for Juvenile Justice and the Utah Committee on Permanency Planning for Children As a testament to his long service in juvenile rehabilitation Judge Larson has received the Secretary’s Commemorative Award of the United States Children’s Bureau for “prog moting the growth and development of America’s children” As a young man he was interested in practicing law he recalled but it wasn’t until he enrolled in a social psychology class at Weber State College that he became interested in “people problems” “My professor there had a sensitivity for people that I admired and took as a role model” he said After graduating with an Associate of Arts degree from Weber State and serving an eastern states mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints he became a probation officer for the Ogden Court in 1939 “It was quite a few years before I finally got my law degree from the University of Utah” he said “I was Involved in quite a few things and also worked full time” Besides workirg as a probation officer he was appointed director of the foster home placement program a new concept at that time he said The program placed between 30 and 40 young boys in rural homes throughout northern Utah Judge Larson attributed most of the program’s success to the well-bein- and knowledge explosion eras” He doesn't think such a program would be as widely accepted now “We didn’t have the communica tion explosion in that time and people were more trusting” he said “In recent years it has been hard to get foster homes — I think mostly because the many bad things in society are so widely publicized and people aren't said Utah has one of the nation's most detailed judicial records systems He would like to see some of the system's historical information used in national research showing trends of criminal offenders Judge Larson said society’s idea of tougher punishment being an effective means to deal with delinquent children is one of the most ineffective and inefficient ways to treat the problem “We’re really treating the vengeance needs of the community and it’s costing society more” he said citing a Pittsburg study which concluded that it costs more to provide a bed in a correctional facility than it would a luxury hotel “These youngsters become disaffected from the dominant culture and become part of the criminal culture” he said “and when they get out these people are their friends The public’s concerned about saving money but institutional care is still the most expensive and the most ineffective way we can deal with most offenders” From his experience as chairman of Gov Scott Matheson’s task force on juvenile corrections Judge Larson said this idea is as common in Utah as anywhere in the United States is a as trusting” According to Judge Larson there vicpattern where child-abus- e tims show up on the court records as 8- - to with shoplifting offenses and later with drug auto theft and grand theft offenses “I would like to see if my hunch is correct” he said “If it is we could use this information to change the ways in which we treat the offenders Many times I think the problem worsens because of parents’ and society’s failure to realize that human potential has nothing to do with an individual's actions” Most people can see past an unfavorable action and still love the person who committed it but they have a difficult time communicating their trust he said Judge Larson said when he was sitting on the bench regularly one of the ways he got the attention of parents whose children he suspected were neglected was to directly ask the parents "Do you love this child?” “I get a whole list cf visual kinds of love” he said “All of these things suggest to me that it is a parent’s way of dealing with their guilt for not caring about the child” He suggested that if parents want to give their children something of value it should be lots of love trust and framework of control from which children can make their own deci- “We spent about a year studying our juvenile correctional system We had about 350 kids at the State Industrial School in Ogden We concluded 0 of that somewhere between them had to be locked up to protect the public But there were still over 200 that could be safely put into the community" he said The study resulted in several community-based programs being instigated to provide supervision and treatment and this lowered the number of repeat offenders Judge Larson currently serving as chairman of a computer software committee for the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges 60-8- University of Utah accounting professor and a former chairman of the university’s School of Accounting are sharing a national award for their study comparing auditing methods used in large accounting companies Recipients of the John R Wildman Award sponsored by the American Accounting Association and Deloitte Haskins & Sells are James K Loeb-beck- e U of U professor of accounting and Barry E Cushman professor of accounting and management information systems at Pennsylvania State University and former U of U faculty member He jokingly 1 r j nile Court most of his spare time involves keeping up helping in judicial activities Even though former Judge John Farr Larson has retired from the 2nd District Juve- - 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For SERVING THE MOUNTAIN WEST ESTIMATE and additional information admits that most of his “spare time” is spent reading and studying the information he receives as a member of the national committees He also has a new computer which aids him in organizing the information “I have a hobby of painting” he d said pointing to portraits of five of his grandchildren “I thought when I retired there would be more time for that but there are now 24 grandchildren and one greatgrandchild and I still have 19 more pictures to paint” Avenues to Hold Street Fair FOR 30 YEARS HOOFING INC 840 West 1700 South 10 Salt Lake City Utah 84104 CALL hand-painte- pm Festivities will be held on 1st nue between R and S streets v Svr —Tribune Staff Photo by Linda “If they have the opportunity to internalize their own values the more effective the control over their actions will be” he said “I think it creates responsibility rather than rebellion” Although retired Judge Larson said he keeps in touch with the judicial system and current issues by sitting “one to three days a month” as a senior judge when the other judges become ill or disqualify themselves from hearing a case Mr Wildman was a partner at Haskins and Sells from 1918 to 1938 and was a professor at New York University The prizes to the two men are gold medals and $2500 cash each 4 a sions Accounting Study Wins National Award A uf Ave- (Uiimiorcie jew? f HA 2ooo ifw'vVr 115 W 7200 So Midvale “THE HOFMANN TRANSCRIPTS’5 Hi-- Fi Hi-Te- ch LOOK INTO THE MIND OF A “MURDERER?” “FRIENDS”! 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