Captivating the hearts of those who watched, the Kony 2012 documentary was a viral phenomenon. Within 6 days the documentary reached 100 million views. Unfortunately, the director of the film and the leader of the movement Jason Russell was marked as a heretic by several media outlets. Thoroughly, the movement was geared to free children being enslaved as child soldiers. In actuality, Jason Russell’s efforts helped bring awareness to a person that was forcing children to do horrid acts of human rights abuses.…
Appalling acts of violence continue to be the key method for military leaders to gain prominence in society. This is especially effective against those with malleable minds, more specifically children. Specifically, in A Long Way Gone , author Ishmael Beah ’s…
Why people commit crime can be a very thought question, and maybe impossible to answer without some concepts. “Theories are devised to explain how a number of different correlates may actually be causally related to criminal behavior rather than simply associated with it." Anthony, W. (2012) Criminology, page 13. Theories of Crime brought lights on a various causes and reasons for crime such as poor parental, birth on financial hardship, and birth defects. Other reasons provided are genetic, psychological, and environmental; example, a mother on drugs and father’s cell compromised by drug use, lack of food, hunger, poor education, and all of these negatives things can influence someone to commit crimes.…
Getting to Know the Lord's Resistance Army For more than 25 years, an army of mostly child soldiers led by a man named Joseph Kony have been massacring and kidnapping civilians throughout Uganda. This conflict has since spread into other regions such as the Democratic Republic of Congo and areas of southern Sudan. Despite several attempts at meetings in addition to arrest warrants from the International Criminal Court against Kony and his troops, this war still rages on as one of the longest-running conflicts in African history. You've probably seen photos of children whose noses or ears were cut off -- because they didn't obey the LRA's orders. He's forced children he's abducted to kill their siblings or parents.…
The 2006 film Blood Diamond, directed by Edward Zwick, promotes this depiction and works to endorse western methodologies, beliefs and ideologies counter to the controversial issue of child soldiers in Africa. The film writers and directors position viewers to agree with dominant interpretations pertaining to child soldiers and their severe loss of innocence. (Play video of boy killing guy without knowing while blind folded) As seen in this extract, the loss of the child’s innocence is foregrounded and is further intensified by the reactions of the rebel leaders. Furthermore, this example exacerbates assertions of guerrilla military leaders exploiting children and their rights to an innocent childhood for their own selfish political schemas simply stating, “It is for a good cause”. The aforementioned examples, which are privileged and mimicked in many similar texts, align with western mindsets on the theme of child soldiers.…
Children come into this world in hopes of being the future of this world, but they never imagine themselves as stone cold killers. The dilemma of child soldiers has spread to hundreds of countries around the world and has no intention of slowing. Now, an estimated 300,000 children fight wars under the forceful hand of local militias that care none for the people they effect. They suffer the cruelest of things during their time as a child soldiers, the effects are frightening including all sorts of trauma that they may never recover from. Now these child soldiers have grown up and are looking for redemption in the new world but first are being prosecuted for their crimes as warlords.…
Joseph Kony is the self-appointed ‘messiah’ of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and oversees the rebel group, responsible for Africa’s longest running armed conflict. He has kidnapped over 30,000 children to strengthen his army, forcing the boys to become soldiers and the girls to become sex slaves (“Invisible Children”). Kony instructs the members of his LRA to abduct, threaten, destroy, and murder in the name of his spiritual powers. Joseph Kony took over The Holy Spirit movement – a militaristic and spiritual rebel movement seeking to free the north of Uganda from government oppression – in 1986. It is unknown of their political position and our long term goals, nevertheless they take advantage of any commotion that affects central Africa for their own survival.…
Please answer the following questions related to Deviance. The answers should be from one to four sentences depending on the question. To give you more space in the answering, you may attach a word document at the end. 1. Define Deviance.…
Economic status this day in time is everything if you don’t have money, then people will judge you for it. In many cases in the department of criminal justice people are let go because their family’s wealth or their wealth and it’s not a good thing because rapists and killers are let free with a clean slate because they have money. Innocent poor people are sent to jail because there at the wrong place at the wrong time, because they have no money they cannot get a good lawyer and they have to settle for public attorneys that are payed by the government that only do it for money and not for the person there supporting. In 2015 a judge decided not to send a teenager from a well off family to prison.…
The Lord’s Resistance Army is a huge problem in Central Africa. Countless children are abducted to become soldiers in Uganda for the Lord’s Resistance Army. An investigation by The Huffington…
Numerous social issues are spreading rapidly around the world, but the social issue of child soldiers has had a drastic increase in recent years. Currently, about 250,000 child soldiers exist worldwide (“Child Soldiers” World Vision). Although the recruitment of child soldiers has existed for several years, currently in various regions rebellious organizations along with military forces of countries have increased the recruitment of child soldiers. Specifically, children in the Middle East face a major threat of being recruited as child soldiers ("ISIS Increasingly Recruiting Children To Carry Out Terrorist Acts"). The organization children in the Middle East face the biggest threat from is ISIS.…
Akilah Ervin Dr. Nassif Intro to Ethics 11 November 2016 Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Ethical Background In the film, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Professor Levy states, “It is only we, with our capacity to love, that give meaning to an indifferent universe. And yet, most human beings seem to have the ability to keep trying and find joy from simple things – from their family, their work, and from the hope that future generations might understand more.” Levy is saying that it is love that essentially makes the world go around. Love is something everyone should feel, even though the universe is sometimes careless and insensitive.…
Season two of American Crime is an incredible example of multiple on going issues that repeatedly occur in the U.S. These recurring themes provide answers as to how and why crime and diversity continue to exist in our society. In my opinion, all individuals that are identified as being part of an “in-group” or an “out-group” could empathize with one thing or another in this text because it has managed to capture multiple different subcultures and stereotypes that communities are faced with on a daily basis. Therefore, it is hard to imagine a person from any group not finding at least one circumstance to sympathize with. The creators of this show also exemplify intersectionality by providing familiar biases and unique disadvantages or flaws…
YELLOW= BEFORE ORANGE= AFTER PINK=CITED QUOTE All around the world there are desperate children being abducted and brainwashed into child soldiers. Children as young as 5 are taken, given a gun and told to kill others or die. If these kids do get rescued by peacekeepers they go into rehabilitation. Child soldiers deserve amnesty because they were just desperate children who were abducted and brainwashed into killing. Around the world innocent children 5-18 are being terribly captured.…
Crime and the 21st Century: Applying the Strain Theory Crime in the 21st century as a whole is on the decline. From 2003 until 2012, there was a 12.2 percent drop in violent crime and a -14 percent drop in property crime. In 2012, according to the UCR data on violent crime and property crime, there were 1,214,462 violent crimes reported and 8,975,438 property crimes reported. (FBI, 2013).…