Gridiron Gang This movie is amazing especially in showing the slumps of a community. It also showed with determination, respect, and self-actualization these individuals in the system can come out of what the movie states being 120,000 incarcerated juveniles with a recidivism rate of seventy-five percent. To only come up with five key insights is difficult considering all the obstacles the movie showed. I will discuss the correctional system, profiling mistreatment, racial profiling, crime, and last social and economic isolation in cities. Then I will go onto explain how a professional person in social work would use these insights to help. Last I will explain how these insights will help me in my future career and life. The correctional system is made up of thirty percent African American youth, they are nine times more likely to receive an adult conviction. The disadvantages in society represented in the incarceration population reinforces negative stereotypes that are already high among the population. The large numbers of African Americans and the poor is taken as proof of criminal tendencies. The high recidivism rate is viewed to be further proof in society of crime among the…show more content… By this means that they are broken families, have bad lifestyles, and prevent minorities from taking advantage of opportunities. These ideals blame the victims of these conditions that are the results of the social structure. Social and economic changes have taken jobs and resources from the inner-cities. It is in these areas where they need to succeed. These areas are being destroyed by economic forces causing there to be crime, poor family structure, and the use of welfare. In the movie, the majority of kids came from south central L.A., this area itself has never been properly rebuilt every time it has suffered a tragedy. These kids only knew they had to survive, and that came with the gang life and the
