These concerns directly impact human rights, the law and everyday life for those affected particularly the young and ethnic minority groups since these are the groups disproportionately represented moreover allegations still exist that despite the Steven Lawrence case of 1993, institutional racism still exists. With stop and search the police deliberately force allegations upon and use the law indiscriminately where certain suspects are accused and the criticisms constantly and inherently labelled at the police are fully justified. What’s more the subsequent police conduct once searched is believed to be unpleasant and discriminatory; additionally the manner of searches can be humiliating and embarrassing for those involved. Overall stop and search is an ineffective method of investigating and disrupting crime for numerous and long standing reasons. One, is that the rate of arrests is extremely poor in co-ordination to the ratio of stops; the stop/search to arrest rate declined from 17per cent in 1986 to just 10 per cent between 1996 to 98, (McConville & Wilson, 2002, pg559).
From this emerged the consensus position on crime which states that crimes are acts that produce intense moral outrage amongst society (Muncie & McLaughlin, 2003). Not all socially unacceptable acts are ‘crimes’. Some acts can be seen just as wrong or immoral but do not have laws against them, these are deviant acts. Deviance is defined in the dictionary as “deviating from what is acceptable behaviour” (Collins 2006, 215). Both crime and deviance are violations of social norms (scn.org).
Everyone has a set of values that determine how they analyze situations in the society. The movie Taxi Driver evokes these values by thought-provoking the viewer’s opinions on some of the most challenging issues in the society including gangs, prostitution, and drugs. Taxi driver is ideologically a classic vigilante movie that introduces violence as the ultimate means of achieving justice in a society where the legal justice system has turned a blind eye them. The New York City depicted in this movie seems too real to be true. The movie came at a time when worst crimes were committed in New York and the United States as a whole hence had several scenes of violence, prostitution, and cheap drugs.
The minimal lighting exaggerates the setting by focusing on a government sign, encouraging fear as a form of control which can be maintained through propaganda and violence. Evey is confronted by fingermen in a dark alley way and tries to retaliate. In this scene Evey’s fear is highlighted by a high angle close up and dialogue, “Oh god, you’re fingermen.” The minimal lighting on the fingermen’s faces helps the audience understand the corrupt men and encourages that they are fearful characters. The scenes demonstration of symbolism, informs the audience of the corrupt power and authority the badge holds, as the dialogue contains fear. The focus on the symbolism of the badge, causes Evey’s reaction, overpowering the false promise of security that the mace offers.
Whereas text b, the rioter’s account, we can evidently see that there is a barrier and that there is a sense of distress and anger. In the second paragraph of text b, the verb phrase in the declarative, “The sight of tooled up riot police being given a good trashing”, from this we can undoubtedly see that the protestors wanted to cause discomfort to the police. In addition to this, we can perceive that text b has an informal register, and a very tense and dramatic tenor, in contrast to text b, text a, has a formal register and a calm tenor. In text a, Hunt’s determination to demonstrate that it was not his
The second juridical question, of rationality, describes, at the level of non-human forces being embodied or personified through human actors, the irrational and inexplicable violence of pathos. Gilligan’s interest is not so much in railing against the injustice of it all (pathos) or locating agents of violence in a teleology of punishment (morality play), but intervening in the tragic drama, where the connections between people are the precondition for the violence between them—but these connections also allow for an alternative ending to the story, in which connections allows for the aversion or tragedy and
Society - people in general living together in organized communities, with laws and traditions controlling the way that they behave towards one another The establishment - the most important and powerful people in a society, who are often thought of as being conservative and wanting to preserve their own power and influence The spiral of brutality – cruel or violent behaviour or actions that continuously become worse 8. The final engraving seeks to portray in a macabre and gruesome way the “reward of cruelty” in the form of Nero’s lifeless body being subjected to public dissection and being denied burial in the hope that it could act as a deterrent to any other would be criminals. A tattoo on the body’s arm identifies Tom Nero as the criminal, the rope around Nero’s neck shows his method of execution as punishment for his criminal act of murder and his face appears contorted in agony portraying pain and suffering caused by asphyxiation from hanging. 9. The 2 skeletons of mutilated bodies in the background seek to portray that other criminals suffered the same after death mutilation as Nero and that what happened to him was not one
Police Brutality Law enforcement officer’s credo is, “If you need me, I will be there for you. I will risk injury or death to get to you, because that is my promise” Police brutality remains one of the most serious and divisive human rights violations in the United States. The excessive use of force by police officers persists because of overwhelming barriers to accountability. This fact makes it possible for officers who commit human rights violations to escape due punishment and often to repeat their offenses. Racism, a big part of police misconduct, has become a major problem in the police force.
‘Not all conflict is bad.’ The word, ‘Conflict’, itself immediately brings to mind terror images of war, the physical damages of violence, the mistreatment humans can inflict on other humans and the impact that power, greed, or politics can have within the society. Through this we can mainly propose conflict as bad. However, whilst it is often that we see conflict that brings out the worst in people; we can in fact see that it also brings out the best in people. When strength and courage comes into play individuals can overcome extreme battles. Some good coming from something bad can be nonetheless true of conflict.
The Subject of Order vs Chaos is somewhat of a cliche topic found in everything. It can be compared to good vs evil. Ralph represents the good in the world and Jack represents evil. With this topic, Golding describes the idea that all humans are inherently evil, by portraying evil actions done by Jack and his followers. Chaos and savagery come as a result of men trying to find pleasure without making sacrifices.