Stickup Kids Analysis

People that have lived their whole lives in the bad neighborhoods of the lower class, do not know how to provide for the new generation of kids that now will iherts the misfortunes of the adults. In many cases this kids that are force to live in neighborhoods filled with violence and drugs have a hard time developing normal social skill that would help them in the future. When the parents fail in helping the kids get a better future, the only thing a kid can do is look for guidance somewhere else and that is how kids fall into the wrong path in life. Much like Edwin Debrow a 12 year old kid who had to rely on the streets to get some guidance, but now he is in prison paying for the mistake he did. The article “The Prisoner” tells the story of the 12 year old killer who now faces many years in prison. The author if the article uses the rhetorical appeals of ethos, pathos and logos to make the argument that kids that commit a crime should be helped with the way they are acting and get placed in a better care, then to keep pushing them to fight authority.

The documentary reveals what the factors are in juvenile detention, shows the harsh outcomes of placing delinquents behind bars in prison, and the similarities between Stickup Kid and The Wire. There are multiple factors like the age of a person, the type of crime they committed, and the safety of the victims and community that will help aide the decision if a person should go to prison or a juvenile detention center. Mental health problems, suicides, attempted suicide, and isolation are the consequences of sending young juveniles to adult prisons. I saw a lot of connections from Stickup Kid to The Wire in the documentary like family always protecting and supporting their own, realistic stories and characters, and people losing faith in the

After recounting the crime he had done in the past out of boredom, a component of strain theory, King explains the reasoning for poor people acting out and doing crime that keeps them in poverty, saying that, “Yes! Black subjects, stripped… degraded… deprived… demoralized… and psychotic-minded must attempt to prove their worth and their manhood, even at the expense of others” (2009, pp. 52-53). What King means by this is that it’s the environment that makes one do what one does, and the people to blame are those in power that perpetuate such conditions. The poor are not, for the most part, who they are just because they are ‘lazy and stupid,’ but more so because there is just nothing there for them. Believing in ‘survival of the fittest’ when working at a desk job may make you feel good about yourself, but there are others who want a chance at the same opportunity as you have had. These people are just like anyone else we know. There hard workers and want to provide for their families, but are held back by the society they live in to further progress, which is ironic in the face of the American

Applebaum's second argument for eliminating the torture policy is that it constantly enables the enemy to build tolerance for the torture. Applebaum uses the example of “radical terrorists are nasty, so to defeat them we have to be nastier.” This example clearly illustrates the fault within the misconception that torture is ultimately effective. There can also be unnoticed and lasting consequences to torture, that in turn, affect more than the individual country. The global stigma that is labeled upon any country that participates in or allows the torture of wartime prisoners is remarkably important. The public and self image that the respective country acquires, affects

The short documentary titled Stickup Kid is about a 15-year-old named Alonza Thomas who was sentenced to 13 years in maximum adult prison for attempted armed robbery. Alonza’s story begins when he runs away from his home because of an argument with his mom and ends up meeting an older gentleman on the street. The older gentleman offered him a place to stay and some food, but after a while Alonza wanted to go home; however, the man brought a gun out and told him he had to rob a store because nothing was free and he wasn’t just going to leave after staying and eating at his house. Alonza ended up unsuccessfully robbing the store and was caught by the police. He was later tried as an adult since the crime was dangerous and the state of California had just passed a law making it easier to try minors as adults. Frontline does a great job of telling Thomas’ story and telling the problems of juveniles in adult prisons.

With the poorly supported claim that “torture is [justifiable] only to save lives,” Levin presents weakly supported cases that appeal to the reader’s sense of emotion where torture might be valid. In the first scenario, he describes a terrorist threatening an overpopulated city with an atomic bomb; the second, a terrorist who has kidnapped a mother’s baby.

It is very similar to high school with the jocks, the popular kids, the people who climb themselves up the social ladder, and the people who just happen to fall into popularity. Many times with people of the Upper Class, they believe that they can get away with anything by either paying someone off to not suffer the consequences, or whoever does find out will just brush it under the table because of who they are. Similarly, Claire, the popular one, is in Saturday detention because she got caught skipping class to go shopping. She thought that her dad would have the power to get her out of detention but he didn’t. This mirrors how members of the Upper Class will often pay their way out of a lawsuit or legal issues because they have the ability to do so. Also, Andy who is the jock in the movie is in detention because he “taped Larry Lester’s buns together,” and he thought that he wouldn’t have to face detention because he was a varsity athlete. This can be compared to professional athletes that commit a crime and instead of being charged for it immediately or at all. Therefore, the Upper Class of America and the social elites of high school are very similar and the members of these social groups rely on their status to get themselves through certain unfavorable situations.

One is released from these obligations if fulfilling them is sufficiently dangerous or costly. Even in those cases where it is dangerous or costly, Shelby argues, one is still obliged to avoid worsening the injustice of societal institutions and to avoid making a just society harder to achieve (Dark Ghetto, page 154). As such, the ghetto poor, who would often have to sacrifice greatly in order to bring about just institutions, can still be rightly criticized for any action or attitude that is contrary to these two duties of avoidance. Some instances of crime do, in fact, exacerbate the injustices of the system by worsening society’s view of the ghetto poor, inciting resentment from those outside the ghettos,

Punishment and Inequality in America starts off by informing the reader of how much of a mass imprisonment problem we have here in America. The first chapter is riddled with statistics of who is being imprisoned, for what reasons are they being jailed, and inequality we see within our prison systems. Such statistics include that black men are six to eight times more likely to be in prison than whites, and that close to one-third of black high school dropouts were incarcerated in the year 2000. Although the statistics are eye-opening, it by no means explains to us why these numbers are the way they are. What Western does try and explain through these numbers is a what he refers to as the risk

   Throughout There Are No Children Here, a continuous, powerful tension always lurks in the background. The gangs that are rampant in the housing projects of Chicago cause this tension. In the Henry Horner Homes, according to Kotlowitz, one person is beaten, shot, or stabbed due to gangs every three days. In one week during the author's study of the projects, police confiscated 22 guns and 330 grams of cocaine in Horner alone (Kotlowitz 32).

7) In criminological theories, we saw how police activity is largely geared towards minor visible crimes committed by individuals from the lower stratums of society as oppose to “white collar crimes” committed by those of higher stratums (Dubé, CRM 3701, 2011). Abolitionists argue that by severely punishing some of the poor in order to deter society from committing crimes; we are only further contributing to the inequalities in today’s society.

They had already set their mind that these boys committed the crime and used their power to make the boys tell them what they wanted to hear. They used their power to hold the boys at the police station until they “confessed”. The boys did not know of their rights that they had and were detained for a long period of time until they were made to believe that if they were to confess, they could go home. Another way that criminal law was used to control the working class in the documentary is with bail. If someone has money, they can pay for a temporary release from jail. In the film, two boys were able to be released on bail, but three of the boys’ families weren’t able to come up the money, so they had to stay in jail. It is clear that if someone is of the working class, it would be difficult for them to come up with the money because of financial issues. If someone was rich, they would be able to pay the bail or fine without having to worry about providing food on the table or paying bills. Because of this, it seems like these criminal laws are set up to benefit those who are wealthy and weed out those that are poor. Those associated with the lower class are usually associated with crime and violence and because of that, these criminal laws are targeted towards a group of people who are at a disadvantage.

Stick Figure by Lori Gottlieb is a first person account of a young girl and her battle with anorexia nervosa. The book is composed of diary entries from when Lori was a young girl, at age eleven. By seeing her personal thoughts and stories from the time when she was battling this disorder gives us a very close look at what drove her obsession with being thin: mainly her mother and peers, who were also obsessed with looking “perfect”. In Stick Figure, we follow Lori all the way from the first time she begins to think she should diet through her eventual hospitalization for the eating disorder. There are many tell-tale signs of the disorder viewed along the way, which are

Based on the study of Puzon (2003) entitled: “Painted Gray Faces Behind Bars in the Streets” states that those who have worked with abused and exploited children, identified fourteen themes and it all falls down into one cluster of themes called resilience. These themes include: the acceptance of difficulty and adjustment to the demands of difficult situations, the capacity to be self – reliant and self – governing, and the ability to be other – centered and to see situations as temporary. The narrations of the child participants to the National and Regional Workshops point out to proofs of resilience. The narratives showed the positive and inspiring sides of Children in Conflict with the Law (CICL) that could not be seen when people encounter

Torture (Latin torquere, “to twist”), in law, infliction of severe bodily pain either as punishment, or to compel a person to confess to a crime, or to give evidence in a judicial proceeding. Among primitive peoples, torture has been used as a means of ordeal and to punish captured enemies. Examination by torture, often called the “question,” has been used in many countries as a judicial method. It involves using instruments to extort evidence from unwilling witnesses.