Girlhood Movie Analysis

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

There have been many studies conducted that examine ways in which the juvenile justice system responds to female offenders. Historically juvenile female offenders have been treated under status offense jurisdiction (Zahn et al., 2010, p. 10). United States Courts would exercise the principle of “parens patriae” to place the female in detention as a form of punishment for misbehavior (Sherman, 2012, pp. 1589-1590). This principle also remains prevalent as it pertains to how the juvenile justice system currently responds to juvenile female offenders.

Most girls that are arrested and detained have committed non-violent offenses, and they are usually not able to get the help that they need. Parents are the primary reporters of female status offenders in contrast to male status offenders that are reported by school or law officials (Donley, 2007; Godsoe, 2014). This shows that the girls may not actually be criminal, but that the parents are unable to manage the child.

The findings on the website show how female offenders have been perceived as less violent offender compared to males (NCJRS). Although, in the past females were perceived to commit minor offenses, but there has been a rise in females committing violent offense (NCJRS). There has also been a rise in the percentage of female offender overall, which younger girls represent a larger proportion of juvenile arrest (NCJRS). The reason for this could be many younger girls are experiencing trauma, abuse, violence, and poverty issues at home. For example, if a younger female leaves in a home and all she sees is her mother and father fight, which could lead her to think that it’s okay. She also gets beaten by her father and her mother never say anything so she might think it’s a way of life. This cause for whenever this younger female gets into a confrontation at school, she automatically leads to violence. The reason why is that’s all she seen growing up. The victimization that the female offender go through cause them to have different needs compared to male offenders. The findings on NCJRS states how due to the different victimization females go through they are more likely to be addicted to drugs and have mental

“Cold, shiny, hard, plastic.”, one of the most popular quotes from the movie, Mean Girls. Mean Girls is a teen comedy film directed by Mark Waters and screenplay by Tina Fey. This film is loosely based on a book called “Queen Bees and Wannabees” by Rosalind Wiseman which is a self-help book that describes all of the cliques in high school and how they can have a huge effect on girls. But the movie itself is about the sociopolitical climate of the average American “high school”. The movie was made in 2004 and set in Evanston, Illinois, but the film was shot in Toronto, Canada. The film stars Lindsey Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and many more comedic actors and actresses. I chose to do an analysis on the movie, Mean Girls, because I wanted to see if people would agree with my perspective, which is that this movie does correctly show the real life mean girl situations and how girls can overcome the popularity contests.

Incarceration of a 13-year-old into an adult prison unravels different factors that would affect their psychological development and maturity. These young girls need rehabilitation rather than punishment at the age they are at. Juvenile offenders should be tried as adults once they are rehabilitated and at the right psychological development as an adult.

Richard Linklater’s Boyhood leaves the audience questioning, asking, and wanting more. The entirety of the film is a recollection of memories and experiences throughout the course of Mason’s childhood. Overall Boyhood is like an unsolved puzzle with missing pieces that aren’t enough to solve the puzzle. The entire movie is questionable and has so many gaps in-between each memory that there really is no plot. Since there isn’t a plot it makes you question if it is really about boyhood, about family, maybe Mason’s childhood, or girlhood. Certain questions begin to formulate like, why doesn’t Linklater use the typical format of storytelling during Mason’s childhood? How come we never know what happened between Oliva and Mason Sr? Why doesn’t

Today’s incarceration population shows that a lot of inmates are minority or female. The female incarceration rate has slowly increased over the years. According to Schmalleger and Smykia (2015), some characteristics that are found in these inmates are: young, poor, low education, abuse, mental disorder (p. 222). Being young definitely has effects on a person especially when it comes to mentality. Younger people tend to make some bad decisions growing up, but that’s how we learn sometimes is from our mistakes. Being poor is rough especially if you have a family. When you are poor you will hit times where you will think about or do anything you can to provide for yourself and family. According to Alfred and Chlup (2009), drug use and selling

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

Chapter 17 discusses female offenders, the major crimes they commit, and the issues that come with females in the prison population. Statistics show that the number of women incarcerated has grown rapidly and has only recently started to level off. Most of the women who end up incarcerated share common characteristics; usually unemployed, failure to complete high school, may be addicted to drugs (female inmates are more likely than males to be drug offenders), already have children and receive no help from the father, etc…

　　Portrayals vary based on the race and ethnicity of the female in question. In the media, female offenders are disproportionately white, and the few other ethnicities that are shown are displayed very masculinely. The few Asian and Hispanic offenders that are depicted as main characters are usually wearing leather and jeans, with short hair and covered with tattoos, usually acting closer to the male idea of an offender rather than what a female acts like. On the other hand, the white female is usually young and pretty, sexually active and usually seen to be dancing provocatively, bringing about the illusion of femininity. This even narrower scope of what female offenders that are not white go through in order to get on the path glosses over and in many cases hides what these girls have suffered and gone through to get to

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.

Before viewing the documentary Hot Girls Wanted in class I was unaware of the differences between amateur porn and mainstream porn. I had also given very little thought to the women behind the pornographic films and why they were chosen for the specific roles being portrayed or why they chose to enter the amateur porn industry to begin with. Hot Girls Wanted depicted the lives of multiple women who chose to enter into the porn industry via a craigslist ad and the effects working in amateur porn had on them.

Pain demands to be felt. Through analysing one written text and three visual texts the reoccurring connection between them is mental illness. All four texts bring about the idea of pain in the world being inevitable and mental detachment from the world being the only solution, making me question the world that we live in. Fight Club (1999) written by Chuck Palahniuk, Girl, Interrupted (1999) directed by James Mangold, Requeim for a Dream directed by Darren Anronofsky (2000), and Clean Shaven (1993) directed by Lodge Kerrigan each show a realist perspective of coping with mental illness and the struggle of reality. Each character with their own reality that they face we see the lengths that they are willing to go to ease their constant pain they feel making the individual question the borderline of sanity and insanity. I

In the past, girls have been considered as deviant for a multitude of different aspects, whether it is related to their sexuality, their mental instability or their refusal to adhere to their social roles. We now see a trend where girls commit similar crime than boys, while they remain less violent, they have expanded in the participation in criminal behavior. Research shows that girls become delinquent for different reasons than boys, but those differences are rarely addressed in the juvenile justice setting. Offering truly gender-responsive programming and educating society and justice professionals as to which pathways lead to criminality in