Prison films

Commonwealth, a documentary which takes place in Pennsylvania 's oldest city Philadelphia, focuses on schools being shut down and prisons being built. The film documents communities in which the states ' prisons are being funded while making shortages to the public educational funds. Moreover, Philadelphia is ranked as the eighth largest school district within the United States. Additionally, for many years Philadelphia 's public education has needed financial help. In addition to this, studies…

2012). The multidimensional approach can be used to analyze an individual in a movie by how certain factors can affect a person’s behavior. For this assignment, Dicky from the film The Fighter, will be analyzed on how the person and environment dimension impacts his behavior. Cognition and Emotion When Dicky was sentenced to prison for larceny and impersonating a police officer, his behavior in the jail was influenced by his cognition and emotions. Jean Piaget’s cognition theory is relevant in…

returns for the guards, and helping to rebuild a shambling prison library, and molding chess pieces out of soapstone, and filling his room with posters of the outside world all help show his desire to not only recapture the life he once had, but create a new one out of the ashes of the old. This hope is what proves to drive Dufresne, hope to reclaim some sort of normalcy, and both this combined with his actions during his time in prison highlight many different aspects of human nature. One piece…

fines are preferred method of enforcement because they lack the crime aspect and the stigma that attends indictment and conviction (Sutherland, 1945). A clear example of the stigma associated with crime is illustrated through the reality of life after prison. Most states have enacted various laws that make it difficult, if not impossible, for ex-offenders to acquire employment, regardless of their work history or risk of reoffending (Harris & Keller, 2005). Despite numerous research findings and…

Written Report: A Clock Work Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971, 136’) A Clock Work Orange is a 1971 film directed by Stanley Kubrick adapted from the novel of the same name by Anthony Burgess. It follows the story of a teenager named Alex. He along with his three friends, which he calls droogs, robbed, rape and pillage the town every night, come home and start over again. He is arrested and sent to prison, there he volunteers for an experimental procedure, that allegedly will mike him physically…

dream of. Prisoners in this day and age refuse to see the seriousness of incarceration and quite rightly so as they are blinded by the extensive luxuries that give them the halcyon days that the prisons never intended. The slow repair of the country’s economy is also being hindered by the cost of its prisons; it costs £65,000 to imprison a person in the UK once all necessary procedures are taken care of. In addition to this the cost is £40,000 for each year a person spends incarcerated. It is…

taken into consideration (Film Media Group, 2006). Being acknowledged as the weaker sex, women receive shorter maximum sentencing compared to men, since female offenders usually have a less-serious criminal background than those of male offenders (Clear et al, 2016). Even though women offenders have committed crimes that do justify sentencing, their position within a family setting should needs to be taken into consideration. With the incarceration rate of women rising, prisons are not equipped…

there. Hubner points to the reason as to why systems that include retributive justice do not work as such, “With a few exceptions, most institutions incarcerating juveniles do not rehabilitate. Indeed, they are not that much different from adult prisons. At best they are holding tank, at worst, they are finishing schools for career criminals” (xx). In institutions such as the ones Hubner described, the teens are essentially doing easy time because all they have to do is sit there and feel sorry…

The article “Michael Moore’s Portrayal of Norway Prison vs. My 15-to-Life Sentence in the U.S.” written by Anthony Papa in winter of 2016 reviews a documentary where Michael Moore, an award-winning filmmaker, travels around the world looking for countries the U.S. can ‘invade’; to clarify, by the term ‘invade’ he means to search for new ideas the U.S. could implement into its own systems (e.g. the Education system, Drug Administration, the Prison system, etc.).…

“Unbowed” is a legal drama film, written and directed by Chung Ji-young and starring Ahn Sung-ki and Park Won-sang. The movie is based on Kim Myung-ho’s true story, a math professor who was arrested and prosecuted for shooting with a crossbow the Judge Park Hong-woo. The movie starts with the aforementioned incident. We witness a math professor named Kim Kyung-ho (Ahn Sung-ki) holding a crossbow in front of the building’s entrance of Judge Park Bong-joo’s (Kim Eung-soo) home. When Judge Park…