The Interrupters Film Analysis

Critical writing 6: The Interrupters

The Interrupters tells the moving and powerful stories of three Violence Interrupters who attempt to protect and improve their Chicago communities from the violence they used to be in. The Chicago Project for Violence Prevention was founded in 1995 by Dr. Gary Slutkin. After returning home to Chicago and hearing stories about children murdering children, he created Ceasefire, operating from the reasonable premise that violence is, fundamentally, a public health issue. Chicago itself has been for the longest time a symbol for the violence in our cities all across America. Chicago is continuously overwhelmed with numerous shootings, fights and even deaths throughout the community. When we look at the applications
As a result of that beating his stepfather immediately confronted the boy outside and killed him in front of Tio. Tio said, “I felt good about it, really.” All the kids and young adults that I witnessed in the documentary see that violence is the answer to every problem. This can be attributed to differential association theory, where people are deviant as a direct result of their peers and associations. In short basic terms if you’re a kid who is in the company of bad kids then you yourself will be a bad kid. In that environment seen in the documentary that’s all they know is deviance and it’s an uphill climb to escape the inner city stigma that many people perceive. In the end it’s a harsh thought knowing and seeing how violent these communities are and it’s turned into a
You can look at labeling theory to potentially explain how this has occurred. The principal of labeling theory is that if you’re a robber then you’re labeled a ‘bad guy’ or if you save someone from a burning house then you’re a ‘hero’. In the poor inner city the label that could be sometimes unfairly put on these youth is ‘thug’ or ‘druggy’. So if a youth in the inner city constantly hears and sees that label cast upon the community and its people like that then one would modify to fit that mold subconsciously. It’s like you act like yourself when you’re alone at home, but when you step out the door into whatever culture you identify and label yourself towards that’s how you then act. This example mentioned can be identified as in-group orientation, acting on new standards that value a group’s overall