The Movie Crash Sociology

I chose to review the movie Crash directed by Paul Haggis which featured many different crimes specifically dealing with racial issues throughout the movie. After closely examining the movie I will explain the elements of "motivation" and "opportunity" as well as touch on the impact of bystanders, aftermath of crime, victim precipitation and correlation of gender and crime. This movie features several small stories which intertwine during a short period of time in a city involving a collection of inter-related characters such as: two black male car thieves who are constantly categorizing society on how it views race, a white district attorney with a high class wife suffering with anger issues, a racist white cop who has been in the force many years, his partner a young white
This scene involves many aspects to the crime including, motivation defined as the wants, needs and beliefs that drive a character , opportunity defined as a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstance , impact of a bystander is when bystanders may call the police of offer to act as witnesses , aftermath of a crime defined as events that occur after the committed crime , as well as victim precipitation defined as when the opportunity of a crime is created by some actions of the victim . There were several events throughout the movie that could be considered acts of motivation; at the start of the scene the two black male car thieves came out of the coffee shop and started walking down the street, the two males were very agitated with the way they were treated as customers. Even though the waitress was black they felt stereotyped as "all blacks don't tip and thus the reasoning why she did not wait on them. The one black male was also bothered by the fact that other people were constantly starring at them simply because they were in the area of town populated mostly by a majority of white. He felt they were being frowned upon as street thugs. When the black