“Making a Murderer” tells the compelling legal narrative of Steven Avery, and his nephew Brenden Dassey. Through its eloquent display of their cases, the docuseries makes a phenomenal display of some of the biases and overarching issues in the United States Justice system. With its display of compelling evidence, “Making a Murderer” also shows where improvement in the justice system is desperately needed. Injustice, bias, and conflict of interest, all inhibit individuals' ability to secure a fair trial.
By analyzing the 13th Amendment, the film argues that although slavery was legally abolished, it persisted differently through the criminal justice system. The documentary exposes mass incarceration's root causes and dire consequences, particularly for Black Americans, and calls for change in the current system.
Many political/social issues came up in the film due to the circumstances that led to Shirley Turner being given the benefit of the doubt while being tried for murder in the Criminal Court of Labrador and Newfoundland. One of the social issues brought to light is the issue regarding the rights of a parent who is facing criminal charges. Many factors are taken into consideration, such as the impact on the children and the support systems available for the parent awaiting trial. There are risks associated with the child being raised in a family unit that has criminal influences and because of that, there are precautions that are supposed to be taken by the Child Protective System to ensure the safety and well-being of the child. When looking at this case through the lens of a Social Worker, it becomes apparent that the case requires a lot of intervention and mediation.
Upon opening the book Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, I embarked on a journey marked by tears and heartache. To truly comprehend the intricacies of the justice system in the United States, one must delve into Stevenson’s narrative - a young lawyer’s odyssey, connecting with those awaiting death row. As I poured over the pages, I found myself repeatedly drawn back; yearning for a shift in outcomes, in narratives, in lives - yet too often witnessing the same tragic endings. Stevenson intertwines storytelling with incisive analysis to breathe life into the marginalized individuals captured by systemic injustices within the criminal justice system, Stevenson not only exposes the flaws of the legal system but also advocates for change. Just Mercy
This film demonstrated a lot of the issues we have learned throughout the semester. This film showed how the procedures in the justice system need to be addressed because law enforcement make a lot of mistakes when they do not follow the producers correctly. The mistakes law enforcement made in this film demonstrated how a person is either innocent or guilty depending the way law enforcement does their job. Overall, this was a great film demonstrating the mistakes the justice system
Perry’s disturbing past urges both the reader and the townspeople to view the culprit’s entire story from a moral standpoint. Thus, this causes them to empathize with him and question whether such a brutal punishment should be inflicted upon a man who may potentially have mental issues. The uncertainty that arises in the minds of the townspeople is portrayed in the prosecutor’s conversation with the newsman after Perry is hanged.
The movie, End of Watch, takes place in Los Angeles and follows the recordings of police officers Zavala and officer Taylor. In this paper I am going to address some issues of race differences and race stereotypes that are related to what I have learned in class. The movie quickly jumps into stereo types against Mexicans when officer Zavala says, “Just because I look like the dudes from Home Depot, doesn’t mean I know how to do the things the dudes from Home Depot do.” The movie goes on by showing how both the officers keep doing their good deeds in their job and helping those in need and stopping crime.
He is a rational stockbroker who analyzes the case from every angle. He focused on facts and not much else. His verdict was guilty throughout the majority of the movie. His reasoning was the lady who claimed to see the puerto-rican boy kill his father from out her window across the street. He said that all the other evident could be thrown out due to this evidence.
Lastly, the criminal justice process or the legal consequences that the criminals face are right but not necessarily fair because occasionally the process supports corruption. In other words, the criminals and drugs dealers in the movie do not face the right legal consequences because the criminal justice process including the judges is corrupt. His life experiences with drug dealers, the drugs, and crime in the streets and the corrupt legal system contribute to Harris’
In the story “Minority Report” by Phillip K. Dick, the reader follows the struggle and journey of the main character Anderton. Anderton was the founder of precrime, an organization apart of the justice system that uses three people in a coma-like state that have insight in the future to prevent any future murders from occurring, until he is accused of being a future murder. Believing that he is being framed, Anderton sets out to prove his innocences by indirectly following the hero’s story. In the short story “Minority Report,” author Phillip K. Dick uses the hero’s journey structure to illustrate the theme that individual liberty is more important than collective security by demonstrating how the main character goes through the Call Of Adventure and Crossing The Threshold stages.
The 1988 film, The Thin Blue Line, was the first documentary of its kind. Director Errol Morris, created the Interrotron, a device where the subjects are able to look right at the camera, cutting out the third party, and allowing the audience to feel as though the subjects are talking directly to them. This interview technique was accomplished by taking Morris out of the room and putting him on a screen where the subjects were able to simultaneously talk to him and look through the lenses of the camera, all the while being recorded. This entire documentary was an investigation into the murder of Robert Wood, a Dallas police officer that was shot and killed while pulling over a car with no headlights on. Randall Adams was wrongly accused for the crime based off one “eyewitness,” David Harris.
There are white thugs just as commonly as there are black. Even as it unfolds with a terrible sense of inevitability, “Fruitvale Station” is rarely predictable. The climatic encounter with BART police officers erupts in a mood of vertiginous uncertainty, defusing facile or inflammatory judgments and bending the audience’s emotional horror and moral outrage toward a both necessary and difficult ethical inquiry. How did this happen? How did we – meaning any one of us who might see faces of our own depicted on that screen – allow
Sidney Lumet 's staggering courtroom drama 12 Angry Men mostly takes place in the cramped jury room where a dozen “men with ties” decide the fate of Puerto Rican teenager accused of murdering his abusive father. Yet the prologue to their civic imprisonment, which takes place beyond these confined walls, sets the stage for Lumet 's overarching concerns about the contradictions of the democratic process. After a few short establishing shots where men, women, and children traverse the plaza steps and interior hallways of the court building, Lumet and director of photography Boris Kaufman focus on a particular door, where one of many cases currently in motion is just about to reach critical mass. The legal arguments have subsided, leaving the courtroom mostly silent and the fate of the accused in the hands of the aforementioned 12 white men. Before their dismissal, the judge looks down at the group and bequeaths them to “separate the fact from
‘A Time to Kill’ is a movie that depicts the racial tensions between the white and black Americans in the past. The movie revolves around the life of Jake Brigance, a lawyer, and Carl Lee Hailey, as he struggles with the law and racism after seeking justice for his raped 10-year old daughter. As Carl Lee approaches Brigance for help with his case, they both face the challenge of blurring the lines between the white and black Americans and helping Carl Lee escape the long arms of the law. In the movie, racism, negligence of one side of the story, and objectivity are applied.
Globalization has fostered cross-cultural awareness and has provided access to a variety of low-cost goods. While modern people enjoys the fruits of globalization, many critics discuss about the disadvantages caused by it. Social issues like child labor, environmental degradation, and cultural homogenization are often under passionate debates; the gender issue is of no exception (Marx 1). Some of the feminist scholars are skeptical about the rise of women in a globalized era. They does not believe globalization will necessarily empower women.
