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The Thomas Crown Affair is a film depicting a very rich man, named Thomas Crown, who struggles with creating meaningful relationships but yet is widely known, and finds entertainment through stealing famous paintings from a museum. Throughout the film the audience creates a relationship with the character, Thomas Crown, and his likeable, playful attitude that soon enough has the viewer siding with him, the criminal, instead of the police enforcement trying to catch him. By closely looking at a scene between Thomas Crown and Detective Catherine Banning, it is possible to analyze both the dialogue and cinematography used for the viewer to understand Crown’s viewpoint, as well as where Banning’s attitude may play in later. By understanding the attitude’s of both Crown and Banning in the film, I believe it can

The focus of this paper will be on two contemporary criminological theories and their application to the crime film, Eastern Promises. The two theories to be discussed, and subsequently applied to the film, are labelling theory and differential association theory. Labelling theory falls under the symbolic interactionist approach, and the primary level of analysis of this theory is micro, as it tends to focus on the effect of labels on an individual’s sense of “self”. The basis of labelling theory is that no act is inherently deviant; it is only when the act is labelled deviant that it becomes so. When someone is labelled as deviant, they begin to see themselves as the label they have been assigned. This can cause the behaviour to happen more frequently, as the individual who has been labelled begins to see themselves as they label they have been given. A criticism of labelling theory is that it lacks empirical validity, and is deterministic. There is no way to effectively test this theory, so there is no way to know for sure how accurate the concept of labelling is and the effect it has on an individual and their propensity towards criminality. This and other aspects of labelling theory will be broken down and discussed later on in the paper.

In the book Games Criminals Play, it designed to assist law enforcement professionals in developing a better perceptive of criminals’ thoughts and behavior by discussing a sequence of ingenious phases, called a 'set-up.’ Prisoners operate this method to manipulate prison staff. Therefore, leading the police and correctional officers into violating the law. Throughout the book, it provides a systematic process of the ‘set-up’ and actual case histories to illustrate how a person can become a victim of a set-up. Additionally, presenting to the readers the ‘protectors’ necessary to hinder the process of a set-up, if the individual suspects they are about to become a victim.

The “Photographic Icons: Fact, Fiction, or Metaphor”, written by a photographic critic and writer Philip Gefter, represents the various situations lying in a photograph and how these situations can affect the authenticity of the photograph. The article also refers to the success and failure of fictional and metaphorical photographs in disclosing the reality.

The crime is defined as the law-breaking cruel action committed by the criminals. These criminals usually have some deep trauma deep in their heart and the sudden bursting of all the negative sentiments will result in very devastating consequences of hurting other human beings. This essay will mainly compare Perry Smith in In Cold Blood and Misfit in A Good Man is hard to find, which is both the main character and the main criminal in the two crime stories. They have a lot of things in common as a criminal with minor differences. They a are both cynical to the society; They have both found themselves isolated from the society.

The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. caused racial tensions to escalate even more. “Many whites openly celebrated the murder.” (Westheider 97) “The feeling of anger and frustration did not

The book exposes the most damning revelation concerning ignorance of the Hollywood police on repeated confessions by a serial killer. The killer had detailed information concerning the crime that was never made public. However, he was never tried for the crime despite confessing to the boy’s murder. The author does not bend facts to show his artistic skills. He details factual information and is not self-consciously literary. The spilling of the narrative follows a

Our current ideology on crime and justice dates back to thousands of years back. This paper will compare and contrast our system and sense of crime and justice with the society Malinowski describes in “The Law in Breach and the Restoration of Order”. In our modern era, it is acceptable to think Hammurabi code is ideal to pursue crime and justice or Cesare Beccaria’s approach towards the pursue of justice is best for the society. To each to its own when it comes to this based on their own values. But regardless of how extreme, or mild our societies thought can be to sought after justice for crimes, the ultimate purpose of all of it to teach a lesson to the individual who committed the crime and to others.

In John Berger’s essay “Ways of Seeing,” he shares his view on how he feels art is seen. Mr. Berger explores how the views of people are original and how art is seen very differently. By comparing certain photographs, he goes on to let his Audience, which is represented as the academic, witness for themselves how art may come across as something specific and it can mean something completely different depending on who is studying the art. The author goes into details of why images were first used, how we used to analyze art vs how we do today, and the rarity of arts. He is able to effectively pass on his message by using the strategies of Rhetoric, which include Logos, Pathos, and Ethos.

Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968. His death led to rioting in the black communities in our society. It was thought that the U.S. Government and the Military were conspirators in his death. King’s murder was an act of racism and hatred (History.com Staff, 2009). Weiner (2009) explores the disputes over integration that resulted resistance and opposition towards white hegemony within the black community. Political

During present times of crisis, society looks to leaders of our past for guidance. In the last 16 years, since the unwarranted murder of 23-year-old Amadou Diallo by New York City police, 76 more black lives have been stolen from this world by the hands of our so called law enforcers. (Juzwiak and Chan, 2014) Just as the names of victims like Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, and Michael Brown ring in our hearts today like sirens of disappointment and frustration and anger and pain, the name of Jimmie Lee Jackson, rang just the same in the hearts of those in 1965 when he was murdered by an Alabama State Trooper and people looked to two men, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, for what to do next. During their era’s movement, the community was

Though one of the nation’s most influential civil rights activists, Martin Luther King, had been killed, the country has chosen to love one another and feel a sense of empathy for those who suffer. Robert F. Kennedy addressed the public that Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee (Kennedy 1). He stated that the United States could head in two directions, one being of segregation. Another being, they can have compassion toward each other, and a feeling of empathy towards those who still suffered within the country, whether they be black

The opening establishes and embodies the world of the justice system, “the man’s world”, accompanied by its seriousness, organisation and harshness in its outlook on reality, the depiction of a typical arrest, identification and trial of a convicted criminal. However, this “world”, according to Wood is threatened, stating that it is somewhat disrupted by the protagonist’s “frivolousness, selfishness, and triviality” (272).

On the surface of the work, it features mugshots of thirteen criminals, however, there is a double meaning placed within the title of the work. Warhol is toying with the notion that law enforcement officials were not the only ones who “want” men. The entire piece is built around a pun with homosexual undertones. The portraits are

The infamous Chamberlin case tells us the attitudes towards crime during the 1980s because this case was based on the attitudes of society which led to the false imprisonment of a mother who had lost her child. This case reveals societies attitudes through the opinions of the vast majority on the rareness of the crime, their understanding of culture and ability to consider facts rather than be influenced by the media.