Me Facing Life: Cyntoia's Story Summary

The documentary “Me facing Life; Cyntoia’s Story” is about a young girl named Cyntoia, who is sixteen years old, going through a trail after committing murder; her life and what may have led her to committing so many delinquent acts is also expressed. Throughout the film her family, lifestyle and way of thinking is shown deeply. Still, after seeing the film I feel as if her pathway to delinquency could have been avoidable by just having more supervision, having a better family structure, and even being more active in school. Cyntoia had hit the streets at thirteen, she was a chronic runaway. “I wasn’t running from; I was running to,” she explains now. The streets of Nashville gave her “what I thought was freedom.” In addition, family is the most important socializing institution. Socializing is a process in which children are taught attitudes, behaviors, and social roles of a group so that they are able to function within a group. Family structure is one of the many factors that Cyntoia lacked, instead of having a good nuclear family structure; she had family violence that produced negative consequences for her, including: increased school problems, mental health problems and an increased likelihood that Cyntoia will use violence against partners and family members. It seemed as
I believe an alternative approach could have been taken regarding her case, maybe a form of rehabilitation instead of being sentenced to life in prison as a sixteen-year-old. Rehabilitation is a justification for punishment that is concerned with the future, being that Cyntoia was so young this would have been a perfect way to give her a future and make her change in order to strive and become a member of