In 2002, President George Bush disregarded the provisions established at the Geneva Convention claiming the protections of prisoners of wars did not apply to enemy combatants. He failed to define the term “humanely,” and the following years the United States military organization began to use excessive interrogation strategies in Guantanamo
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One of the most known graffiti artist, Banksy, has been “tagging” his art all around the world for the past 22 years. His graffiti art is usually done with stencils, but has also built physical prop pieces. Even with the government labeling graffiti as vandalism, Banksy purposely displays his art
Like Professor Kaplan said on his lecture, we have a fascination for crime. ON this clip, crimes such as rape and murder become art. This clip is a trailer for a documentary, it has strong images but it reminded me about the lecture when one of the speakers said that
Johnny Cash was known as the Man in Black and he made of career of singing country songs and ballads. He was very famous for the concerts he played in prisons in California and in the Swedish prison, Pa Osteraker. This is one of his more famous songs, which he
If anyone watches this show, they know that it is an undercover documentary of sorts on the drug trade throughout America with cities such as Detriot, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, etc. On the show dealers are interviewed and explain everything about their business including the products, money gained from selling,
In the 1970’s, pop artist Larry Rivers filmed his documentary entitled “Growing,” The documentary depicted his adolescent daughter’s topless. Twice a year for six years, Rivers filmed his two daughters Emma and Gwynne, sometimes just with their breasts exposed, sometimes naked, as he asked them questions about their bodies and
The Corridos are popular narrative songs and poetry form from Mexico. These songs are often about oppression, history, daily life of someone who is or was involved in the Mexican Cartel. However, this type of music is illegal in Mexico due to the explicit content on the lyrics of these
In CJ 302, we recently talked about what is cultural criminology. It is basically the collective meaning of norms, art, and entertainment with interation with crime. We, as a society, are obessed with crime so we continue to make different forms of it in order to create entertainment for ourselves
Murder has been used as plot in a story for centuries.. “Cirmesploitation”?
Many people believe that graffiti is a crime but always seem to miss the beauty and messages that come with it. A lot of graffiti is created by someone with a artistic mind that can only fit their thoughts on a huge wall like this picture. this is located on