Q1: Which of the three perspectives did Pacman, Hodges, the ex-gang member turned community leader, Frog, and Rocket take relative to gang violence? Give specific examples from the movie to support the perspective that you chose. From your viewpoint, was the perspective effective in reducing gang violence? Why or why not?
A1: The movie Colors is very sociological when it came to deviance and crime. It expressed the difficulties that criminals had to face when choosing to join the gang or risk the consequences. It also gives the viewer and chance to look into the hard life of a police officer during a gang war. In this case, the policemen were Officer Danny McGavin, also known as Pacman, and Officer Bob Hodges. Both of these police officers …show more content…
Rocket, Frog, and Hodges all used leadership styles, some better than others. Rocket’s leadership style was authoritarian because he gave commands to his crew about objectives. Rocket also doesn’t mind getting his hands dirty. A great example was at the beginning of the movie in the drive by shooting. Rocket was very serious during the drive to the victim’s house while his crewmates were smoking weed. Rocket was the one that eventually did the shooting. Frog’s leadership style in Laissez-Faire. He’s more of the organized crime lord who doesn’t put his recruits on leashes. He would let them hang out anywhere are do anything, as long as it did not get them into trouble. He would rarely get his hands dirty and lets recruits who do stupid things serve their jail time. For example, when High Top committed a crime, Frog did not protect him or save him, for that matter. He let him get beat up and rot in a jail cell. Another example is that most of the drive-byes or killings that took place had nothing to do with Frog. He hid is guilt. Hodges’s leadership style is also authoritarian because he is the boss, and Pacman is the “apprentice.” There are many examples where Hodges made Pacman do things that went against his (Pacman’s) functionalist beliefs such as letting suspects go and ordering him to stop acting like a gang member (as said in one of their
A1: The movie Colors is very sociological when it came to deviance and crime. It expressed the difficulties that criminals had to face when choosing to join the gang or risk the consequences. It also gives the viewer and chance to look into the hard life of a police officer during a gang war. In this case, the policemen were Officer Danny McGavin, also known as Pacman, and Officer Bob Hodges. Both of these police officers …show more content…
Rocket, Frog, and Hodges all used leadership styles, some better than others. Rocket’s leadership style was authoritarian because he gave commands to his crew about objectives. Rocket also doesn’t mind getting his hands dirty. A great example was at the beginning of the movie in the drive by shooting. Rocket was very serious during the drive to the victim’s house while his crewmates were smoking weed. Rocket was the one that eventually did the shooting. Frog’s leadership style in Laissez-Faire. He’s more of the organized crime lord who doesn’t put his recruits on leashes. He would let them hang out anywhere are do anything, as long as it did not get them into trouble. He would rarely get his hands dirty and lets recruits who do stupid things serve their jail time. For example, when High Top committed a crime, Frog did not protect him or save him, for that matter. He let him get beat up and rot in a jail cell. Another example is that most of the drive-byes or killings that took place had nothing to do with Frog. He hid is guilt. Hodges’s leadership style is also authoritarian because he is the boss, and Pacman is the “apprentice.” There are many examples where Hodges made Pacman do things that went against his (Pacman’s) functionalist beliefs such as letting suspects go and ordering him to stop acting like a gang member (as said in one of their