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The hyperlink cinema narrative and story structure can be compared to social science's spatial analysis.As described by Edward Soja and Costis Hadjimichalis spatial analysis examines the "'horizontal experience' of human life, the spatial dimension of individual behavior and social relations, as opposed to the 'vertical experience' of history, tradition, and biography."
The delinquency spiral is a psychosocial mechanism that helps understand the involvement in delinquency of certain individuals, whether adults or minors. It concerns the onset and worsening of delinquency in adolescence. It is during adolescence that young people are first confronted with peers who have delinquent values and/or behaviors. They ...
In his autobiography, Lincoln Steffens details how news reporting can be used to create the impression of a crime wave where there is none, in the chapter "I Make a Crime Wave". Button and Tunley [4] have also presented a theory that offers the opposite to deviancy amplification, which they call deviancy attenuation. In this, they argue using ...
Another early form of the theory was proposed by Reiss (1951) [3] who defined delinquency as, "...behavior consequent to the failure of personal and social controls." ." Personal control was defined as, "...the ability of the individual to refrain from meeting needs in ways which conflict with the norms and rules of the community" while social control was, "...the ability of social groups or ...
These observations draw on positivist criminology, which conducted empirical research into delinquency. From these, Matza and Sykes created the following methods by which, they believed, delinquents justified their illegitimate actions: Denial of responsibility. The offender insists that they were victims of circumstance, forced into a ...
Films about juvenile delinquency, the act of participating in unlawful behavior as a minor or an individual younger than the statutory age of majority. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
What is a movie? It sounds like a silly question, perhaps, but it’s one that’s been rattling around my head ever since I walked out of Deadpool & Wolverine last Friday.
Psychological drama, or psychodrama, [1] is a subgenre of drama and psychological fiction literatures that generally focuses upon the emotional, mental, and psychological development of the protagonists and other characters within the narrative, which is highlighted by the drama.