Sympathization And Anti-Hero In Prison Movies

The ethical treatment of prisoners is a surprisingly contentious topic, considering how much is known about the conditions and contexts in which human beings function optimally, both physically and mentally. However, ethical discussions frequently have very little to do with what best allows human beings to thrive and function, but instead concern themselves with formulating rules and standards of acceptable behavior, usually out of the mistaken belief that these rules or standards represent some kind of objective, universal ethics. A problem arises when dealing with prisoners, because in many people's minds, the crime or offense of which a prisoner is accused warrants the denial of a certain subset of their rights, but there is not universal acceptance of which rights may be denied and to what extent, due to a disconnect between different modes of ethical thought. Believing in objective, universal ethical standards actually means that anything is justifiable; because these imagined objective standards do not actually exist, people are free to imagine them however they see fit. More utilitarian ethics rooted in conceptions of the social contract are far more useful for determining social policy, because they do not purport to represent objective ethical standards; rather, they acknowledge that ethics and morality are socially constructed, and as such they seek to rationally determine the best practices for achieving any particular goal. By examining two especially

Social bond theory was initially developed by Hirschi in 1969. The basis of this theory is that criminal behaviour occurs when social bonds are broken. Hirschi (1969) explains how there are four key factors of a social bond and the strain on these factors motivates deviant behaviour. By applying Hirschi's social bond theory to prison can begin to explain why the prison experience may increase later reoffending. Nagin et al (2009) furthers this explaining how prison may have negative effects on offender through reducing exposure of positive pro social bonds and increasing the exposure of negative influences.

They eventually become weak and lose emotions towards family members. The prisoners aren’t mentally healthy, and because of this, none of their other characteristics are present

Sometimes I think of prisons in the same way as running a daycare. The prisoners cry, and they get a pacifier. I say that because, had the inmate not done whatever he or she did to land in prison they would not be there in the first place. Prison is a place or should be of reform and rehabilitation. “Reflecting individual inmates' institutional adjustment more than anything else, the systems typically assigned inmates to one of three grades based on their behavior and offered gradually increased or decreased privileges as they moved up or down the grade structure” (Roberts, J.W., 2000, pg.102). Prisoners male and female should have to earn every little luxury that a prison has to offer. According to what is shown on television, it appears prisoners lay around most their days watching tv and partaking in card games. That does not help with rebuilding self-awareness and good decision-making skills.  “Prisons

For over centuries, the only form of punishment and discouragement for humans is through the prison system. Because of this, these humans or inmates, are sentenced to spend a significant part of their life in a confined, small room. With that being said, the prison life can leave a remarkable toll on the inmates life in many different categories. The first and arguably most important comes in the form of mental health. Living in prison with have a great impact on the psychological part of your life. For example, The prison life is a very much different way of life than what us “normal” humans are accustomed to living in our society. Once that inmate takes their first step inside their new society, their whole mindset on how to live and communicate changes. The inmate’s psychological beliefs about what is right and wrong are in questioned as well as everything else they learned in the outside world. In a way, prison is a never ending mind game you are playing against yourself with no chance of wining. Other than the mental aspect of prison, family plays a very important role in an inmate’s sentence. Family can be the “make it or break it” deal for a lot of inmates. It is often said that “when a person gets sentenced to prison, the whole family serves the sentence.” Well, for many inmates that is the exact case. While that prisoner serves their time behind bars, their family is on the outside waiting in anticipation for their loved ones to be released. In a way, the families

The film from Frontline, follows the lives of six men recently released from prison and shines a light on the hardships of life after prison without the guidance of the criminal justice system. Interestingly the men that the film focused on each displayed a desire to reform during interviews that were held while the men were on medication. Commonly, each of the interviewees has a history of not taking medications on their own, along with returning to jail during these periods. Once support in the way of probation or parole is no longer a part of the men's lives, the hardships return along with a new charge and more time behind bars. The system currently in place, incarceration with short probation or parole time following prison does not effectively

Stress is the resulting effect of all of the previous environmental factors within the prisons and is not exclusive to the inmates but is also a problem for the Department of Corrections personnel as well.

Rina Palta wrote in the article that private prisons now a day are owned by private company and are being use for profit. The target that she stated in the article is people of color. The more prisoners they have the more profit they can get, that why the prisons are trying to keep their prisoners. Their plan is to catch the young prisoners and use them as long as they can. First, the prisoners are not allowing to bring lawsuits. Second, the private prisons are not teaching their prisoners any social skills so that when the prisoners finish their sentence, they won’t know how to survive in social, and they will eventually come back to the prisons. This article is believable because the author is a reporter about crime and safety for KPCC. She has been spending a few years to report prisons, law enforcement agencies and criminals. I use this as the evident that the government let those private company using the prisoners of color to make profit.

Yet it also remains largely invisible or misrepresented to many. The penal system exists today because American society allows it, but also because society deems it acceptable. This viewpoint on the acceptability of the current prison begs the question of how an outlet, whether through media, film, literature, or experience, may inculcate perceptions and consequently antagonize material responses. With the American prison system’s often hidden quotidian details and overall existence, representation of it carries the power to easily influence perception and incite action. And the conjoint relationship between representation and action invokes the necessity of representative focus, a requirement to critically analyze and understand this relationship when illustrating a structure such as the carceral system. The way in which prison representation takes form and chooses its emphasis will inevitably vary. Yet it remains that representation may lie at the core of any future movement to reform or abolish the current penal system, just as misrepresentation may lie at the core of any movement to ensure its

Inmate culture is a concern to prison facility because of the impact it can burden upon the prison. The prison code, norm, values, and prison argot are part of their cultures. When an inmate enters into the correctional facility they will adopt a prison lifestyle. Therefore, when they are release many will do the" U-shape curve effective" according to Staton Wheeler. For instance, some inmates, that live a violent lifestyle will congregate with others with the same characteristics (Schmalleger & Smykia, 2016). In my opinion, a drug dealer or gang member will gain a position of importance in the prison setting it gives them a sense of power from other inmates. Donald Clemmer believes that inmates belief, value, and behaviors grow antisocial

Heroes, Villains and Antiheroes In Heroes and Villains by Sonia Maasik and Jack Solomon, they argue that there are more to heroes and villains then what they appear to be while in comparison to No Sympathy for the Devil by Heather Havrilesky says, that we tend to cheer for the flaws of the anti-hero because we can justify their wrong doings for the greater good. As it is in the stories, all families have a hero, villain, and anti-hero. In real-life, heroes and villains are human beings. It is not immediately apparent who the hero is and who is the villain. As the famous expression states, “you cannot judge a book by its cover,” meaning that just because someone may appear to be one way doesn’t mean that is who they are.

The Shawshank Redemption movie is about a man named Andy Dufresne who was falsely accused of murder and was sentenced to life in prison for the murders of his wife and her lover. Being in jail, Andy faced many problems of being abused, but he also gained a strong friendship with a man named Red. Many of the things that the prisoners had to face showed a sociological perspective on how life was in jail and how it affected the prisoners. In Shawshank prison, the functionalism theory, the conflict perspective, and the control theory shows the life and adjustments a prisoner has to make in order to survive going into a new world.

The answer is simple: America is infatuated with sending people to prison. America, as a whole, is convinced that it can get rid of the bad people in society by putting them into a special building that was constructed for the sole purpose of housing the ones who do bad things. Americans feel like they need heroes and the bad people are getting in the way of this heroism. Just think about all of the superhero movies, comic books, and merchandise that the United States churns out every year. Superheroes are a great concept to market because they directly, with some exaggeration, mimic what goes on in police forces and the United States’ justice system. A figure of the law apprehends the criminal and the criminal is locked away for their deed. Superheroes are also a great way to brainwash society into thinking that the only bad people that are sent to jail are murderers, robbers/burglars, rapists (although they are not talked about in comics), and people trying to take over the world with the use of a laser beam in outer space. Besides these four categories of criminals, what is another class of criminal that is sent to prison in

Lee Tergeson, actor from the television show OZ said, “I know what it is like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being thrown away. There is no sense of rehabilitation. In some places, they are trying to do things. But, in most cases, it is a holding cell.” (Tergeson, 2002) He speaks the truth.

Once again he created distance between his emotion and himself. He continues to say “I guess” not really connecting with his stated emotion. It also showed that he did fall back to his negative automatic thought about being rejected by others because he wasn’t shocked about that the inmates stopped being his friends.