- Include a summary of the film (title, year released, director, and a brief summary). What is the main theme of the movie? What relevant subplots will you be discussing later in the paper? Center on the crime/criminal or criminal justice system component while paying attention to the socio-cultural and political context where it develops.
- Introduce the theory you will be using to guide your analysis: a brief summary of the theory(ies) that you are using to analyze the film: primary authors, central tenets, and underlying assumption of the theory concerning issues such as human nature, human agency, social order, the definition of crime and the image of the criminal.
- Analyze the film through the lens of the theories you have selected.
- Use key concepts, propositions, assumptions from the theory to explain the situation/plot
that is happening in the film. - Refer to specific scenes and characters that illustrate the tenets of the theory. How specific
concepts help to explain the theory or how the theory is supported through the scene? - Refer to specific scenes that illustrate some of the limitations and flaws of the theory.
- *DO NOT just summarize the movie or mention the crime or criminal justice issue
that is occurring and turn that in as your final assignment. You really need to analyze
and apply the theory to particular scenarios*
- Use key concepts, propositions, assumptions from the theory to explain the situation/plot
- Crime prevention and policy implications.
- Could the issue at the center of your selected film have been prevented/addressed either through
the assumptions of the utilized theory and/or based on what you have learned in other relevant courses. If the issue/conflict at the center of the film was addressed within the film (crime prevention or control), is it in line with the theoretical assumptions of utilized theory? Explain. - Provide policy recommendations for either the local, city, state or federal governments to address the issue at hand within the film analyzed. You can focus on crime prevention, system reform, legal proposals,
- Could the issue at the center of your selected film have been prevented/addressed either through