Film Summary Of The Film Girlhood

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In the Documentary ,Girl Trouble, the lives of three girls are recorded over the course 3 years. During those three years the lives of the girls were evaluated while they were incarcerated in the San Francisco’s’ Juvenile Justice system. According to youth advocate Lateefah, and other delinquent advocates, the prison system is not adolescent friendly when it comes to girls. Lateefah insists that there is a worldwide misconception about bad girls, being that there is no meaningful way to rehabilitate, which results to the system throwing away children lives forever. In order to shy away from this misconception, Lateefah and other lobbyists for at risk youth gets girls like the three in the documentary, to attend rehabilitative centers such

The documentary “girlhood” is a video that illustrates social learning theory by sharing the lives of two girls that are incarcerated at a Juvenile Detention Center in Baltimore, Maryland. These girls are both serving time for a violent crime they committed. One girl stabbed her friend with a knife and killed her while the other attacked a girl with a box-cutter. The girl that stabbed her friend to death was sexually assaulted at the age 11 and at the age of 12 was charged for stabbing her friend. The other girl was raised by her maternal grandmother with the absence of her mother that suffered a drug addiction and supported her addiction as a prostitution. She shuffled from foster home to foster home and grew up longing for the love and attention

In the riveting documentary Audrie & Daisy, husband and wife director team Bonnie Cohen and Jon Shenk retrace the events leading up to the harrowing sexual assaults of three teenaged girls; Audrie Pott, Daisy Coleman, and Paige Parkhurst, and expose the agonizing after effects and exploitation of the assaults. Subsequent interviews with family members, friends and law enforcement officials give important details about the aftermath of the events, and introduce viewers to possibly the biggest villain of all, Sherriff Darren White of Maryville, Missouri. Throughout the documentary White appears smug while he states that “as County Sheriff, “the buck stops here” (Darren White), and when asked about the crimes committed by Maryville’s football star, he rebuts with “was there a crime?” (Darren White) As the film moves through the twists and turns of the cases, the settings, conflicts, and tragedies are enhanced by the use of montage, long and subjective shots, close-ups and personal sketches that submerge the audience into the victim’s point of view. At the conclusion of the film, the viewer is left to decide what constitutes sexual assault and rape, and if society and law enforcement are to blame for the today’s ‘rape culture’ acceptance and the continued victimization of young girls. It also reveals how much can be hidden from parents, and how disconnected parents become from their children in a social media world.

Megan’s feeling of not being good enough leads her to become involved with the wrong people, ultimately leading to her death. In the beginning of

Facilities and workers in the juvenile justice system are not designed or trained to address these gender-specific problems. Not only does the juvenile justice system not address the root causes of the delinquent behavior, but many girls often feel re-traumatized from the status offender system, especially runaway girls (Godsoe, 2014).

The 1991 movie My Girl tells the story of 11-year-old Vada Sultenfuss who, having lost her mother at birth , lives with her dementia-ridden grandmother and her job-oriented father in the funeral parlour that he owns and operates. The story follows Vada, an extreme hypochondriac who has many strange misconceptions about death, through a variety of life-changing experiences, including the engagement of her father and the devastating loss of her best friend, Thomas Jay. Through these experiences, the audience witnesses Vada’s social, emotional, and intellectual growth, as well as her changing views of death.

It all started when an ordinary girl and a typical guy went on their first date in the summer of 1989.

“Working Girl,” depicts important battles that women are still fighting today, it brings light to the ridiculous judgments and barriers that women had to smash to establish themselves in the business field. The film was written by Kevin Wade and released in 1988, the story is based in New York City from the inspiration of New York commuters and the noticing that many young women were wearing white tennis shoes on their way to work, carrying high heels to change into once arriving to work. Tess McGill, an undervalued and mistreated sectary to the ultimate feministic triumph, Kathrine Parker who steals Tess McGill’s idea for a radio deal for their company, are the main characters. While Kathrine Parker is on a skiing trip and breaks her

Many of the offenses in this Documentary relates with the common crimes that have been mentioned in class. In lecture, we have learned that most all crimes committed by females are less serious non-violent crimes (Pinchevsky, 2017). The crimes that women typically do are things like larceny theft, drug crimes, assaults, etc. The crimes that these girls in the documentary are accurate with the material that we learned in class about offending. All of the crimes that are committed are part of the top 10 list of offenses that females are most likely to get arrested for.

Females are increasingly becoming more active in the juvenile justice system and this is said to be happening at alarming rates. It is important to learn more about why and how girls commit crimes so that we may also attempt intervention in an effective manner to prevent potential offenders and rehabilitate the girls who have already committed offenses. The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention has produced a report that includes a review of how these girls are getting into these situations, how states are dealing with this population of offenders, the national efforts that have taken place to attempt to address the needs of the adolescent female offender including training for individuals who work with these females and

Youth violence, and particularly violence carried out by girls, has been the subject of intense media attention recently, with an ever-increasing number of girls portrayed as carrying guns in their mouths and participating in violent crime. Although the percentage of girls' involvement in delinquency and crime has increased in the last two decades, it is still far below the level of boys' involvement, and it differs quite significantly.

The woman's voice is not trusted, even when telling her story. Many probation officers and other officials who have encountered juvenile females state that females are their least favorable clients, due to manipulation (Gaarder et. al. 2004). Although they are responsible for the well-being and rehabilitation of the female juvenile, stereotypes weigh heavier than the truth and the female juvenile suffers because of it. The female juvenile is then faced with a tean that is put in postitions of power to support her rehabilitation, but can not relate to or understand her

Given the varying methods of socialization that boys and girls display and thus experience life differently, ‘gender’ becomes a valid variable for discussing juvenile delinquency. Most research studies have focused their attention on male juveniles, somewhat ignoring, denying or even trivializing crimes amongst females. As a result, there has been little understanding of the differences between juvenile delinquency in males and females. This (delinquency) is largely attributable to the historical fact that males constitute the bigger percentage of delinquents (Trogdon, 2006). However, evidence shows that female delinquency is

In light of the girls, the system records considerable racial inequality. It was noted in a 2013 study conducted in Hinesville, that African-American girls are the fastest growing section of this system and stand a higher chance of being detained when compared to white girls; their American Indian counterparts on the other hand have a and even higher likelihood to be detained. The study’s authors intimated that detention as a form of correction causes harm to youths and its consequences to girls may prove great damage or suffering. The study highlighted that detained girls stood a five times higher chance of dying by twenty nine compared to the general public. Detention develops as an extremely drastic and inept correctional measure since