Long Beach Movie Analysis

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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 from cities. Then I will go into explaining how a professional person in social work would use these insights to help. Last I will explain how these insights will help myself in my future career and life. The correctional system is made up of thirty percent African American youths, they are nine times more likely to receive an adult conviction. The disadvantages of society represented in the incarcerated population reinforce negative stereotypes that are already high among the population. The large numbers of African Americans and the poor are taken as proof of criminal tendencies. The high recidivism rate is viewed to be further proof of society of crime among …show more content…
This is what I actually spent most of my years growing up around in Long Beach, C.A., where I saw these types of situations first hand. I had also thought it was the way of life till I moved away. I had made a decision a long time ago, thanks to a probation officer, that I wanted to become a difference in teenagers lives. Let them realize that there are other options out there. I also have done this with my own children. The movie made me realize how far I have come as a person, and how much I truly want this as a dream, in my profession, to help those that do not know there is other options out there for them. I want to allow them to grasp themselves as what they are capable of, not what they think they must