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Analyze a movie (5 pages)

Choose a movie that directly deals with the issue of crime/criminal behavior. Some good classic movies include: Menace to Society, Murder in the First, Boys N the Hood, Shawshank Redemption, Scarface, Slumdog Millionaire, and Maria Full of Grace.

Guidelines

After addressing a brief summary of the plot of your movie, your paper should address each of the following key questions:

1.Did the movie take an individualist or structural approach in the way the crime/criminal was described/depicted? That is, did the factors or causes that encouraged people/individuals to commit crime/s lie inside the individual (in some sort of psychological or biological abnormality), or were the causes /factor that motivated their behaviors found in the environment or social structure in place?

2.What were the characteristics of the group or individual that perpetrated the crime/s (age, socio-economic status, racial/ethnic characteristics, gender, geographical location, etc)? *If you’re analyzing a movie in which there are several crimes taking place, choose one to analyze.

3.What were the characteristics of the group or individual that were victimized (age, socio-economic status, racial/ethnic characteristics, gender, geographical location, etc)? *If you’re analyzing a movie in which there are several cases of victimization, choose one to analyze.

4.What specific criminological/sociological theories were reflected or challenged by the movies/article you chose? You should address a minimum of two theories.

Any movie of choice.

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Analyze a movie: Choose a movie that directly deals with the issue of crime/criminal behavior. Some good classic movies include: Menace to Society, Murder in the First, Boys N the Hood, Shawshank Redemption, Scarface, Slumdog Millionaire, and Maria Full of Grace. Guidelines After addressing a brief summary of the plot of your movie, your paper should address each of the following key questions: 1.Did the movie take an individualist or structural approach in the way the crime/criminal was described/depicted? That is, did the factors or causes that encouraged people/individuals to commit crime/s lie inside the individual (in some sort of psychological or biological abnormality), or were the causes /factor that motivated their behaviors found in the environment or social structure in place? 2.What were the characteristics of the group or individual that perpetrated the crime/s (age, socio-economic status, racial/ethnic characteristics, gender, geographical location, etc)? *If you’re analyzing a movie in which there are several crimes taking place, choose one to analyze. 3.What were the characteristics of the group or individual that were victimized (age, socio-economic status, racial/ethnic characteristics, gender, geographical location, etc)? *If you’re analyzing a movie in which there are several cases of victimization, choose one to analyze. 4.What specific criminological/sociological theories were reflected or challenged by the movies/article you chose? You should address a minimum of two theories.

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