How To Write A Criminological Analysis Of The Movie Traffic

In the film, Traffic directed by Steven Soderbergh, released on January 05, 2001, four stories are intertwined around the central issue of the war on drugs going on between the United States and Mexico. This film stars many Oscar-winning and Oscar-nominated actors and actresses which include but are not limited to, Benicio Del Toro, Michael Douglas, Cetherine Zeta-Jones, Don Cheadle, Luis Guzman, Erika Christensen, among others.
I felt sad, yet interested about the topic of the film, as while it was very disheartening to see so many people die as a result of the war on drugs, it was still interesting to find out how all the stories in the film were connected.
The causes of crime were direct results of the drug trade going on in Mexico and California. For instance, Ray Castro died because of the car bomb intended to kill Eduardo Ruiz, the sole witness in Carl Ayala’s trial. Eduardo was later poisoned so that he could not testify in Ayala’s trial. Furthermore, Manolo also died because he was going to “snitch” on General Salazar to the DEA from the instructions of Carl’s wife, Helena Ayala. Consequently,
This film helped me to understand and identify certain strains or stressors that increase the chances of a person committing a crime. These strains also cause the person to experience emotions of a negative nature, like anger or frustration. They become angry or frustrated enough that they now feel pressured to do something about the emotions they are feeling and are now willing to engage in criminal activity in an effort to stop being so frustrated or angry. In other words, people use criminal activity as a sort of escape from or haven for strain or stressors. They either seek some sort of vengeance against the source of stress or strain, or make efforts to reduce the amount of negative emotions they are feeling because of that strain or stress (“Strain