Juvenile Delinquency In Boyz N The Hood

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Juvenile delinquencies are not foreign in a disadvantaged residence area of a city (the hood). Area’s where juveniles participate in gangs, violence, and substance abuse. These areas are vulnerable to lack of policing. From the increasing numbers of crimes and deaths in these areas, you would think a greater number of law enforcement would be present. In the film, Boyz N The Hood, violence and death occurred due to the lack of police enforcement. The lack of social control on these juveniles led them to take matters into their own hands. In Boyz in The Hood, it starts off with Tre living with his single working mother. According to the textbook, Tre was experiencing a broken home where only one parent was available at a time (Thompson and Bynum 202). He got in trouble, so, his mother sent him to go be raised by his father who lived in “the hood”. From a young age, Tre knew there were cops in the area where minorities were not cared for. The area he lived in was mainly made up of lower class, single parent minorities. Tre and his friends (Ricky and Doughboy) grew up around gang violence, drug addiction, and drive-bys. The random gun shots and deaths were not new to them. In the end of the movie, even though Tre and Ricky were set up for failure, they tried to surpass their stereotypes that they would be gang members, in jail, drug …show more content…
The author Victor Rios mentioned the over policing-Under policing paradox (86). Rios researched young juveniles who had countless encounters with law enforcement. All the juveniles had come to the conclusion that there are many cops around, but yet not for them. Police was only there to harass and take juveniles to jail. This connects the film because the police are only present when they want to. They would rather have minorities dead, or incarcerated to get them off the streets to make their jobs easier and/or society

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