For this paper, your task is to reflect on one theory of criminal behavior andone theory of victimization. You are required to pick amovie or TV series for each theoryyou choose and apply that theory

This is a sample list of movies that you may use for your paper. You are welcome to use a movie that is not listed here. Unfortunately, I don’t have a similar list for TV shows or documentary series, so I invite you to browse your streaming apps or the Internet to get ideas.

Criminology Goes to the Movies

NYU Press 2011

Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003)

Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (1992)

American Gangster (2007)
American History X (1998)
American Me (1992)
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
Asphalt Jungle, The (1950)
Babel (2006)
Badlands (1973)
Bad Seed, The (1950)
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (2007)
Bicycle Thief, The (1948)
Blackboard Jungle (1955)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Boston Strangler, The (1968)
Bottle Rocket (1996)
Boyz n the Hood (1991)
Brave One, The (2007)
Brother’s Keeper (1992)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

Capturing the Friedmans (2003)
City of God (2002)
Civil Action, A (1998)
Clockers (1995)
Clockwork Orange, A (1971)
Coffy (1973)

Collateral (2004)
Crash (2004)
Death Wish (1974)

Departed, The (2006)

Dirty Harry (1971)
Do the Right Thing (1989)

Double Indemnity (1944)

Easy Rider (1969)

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)

Falling Down (1993)
Fargo (1996)
Fight Club (1999)

Frankenstein (1931)
Fury (1936)
Gattaca (1997)
Godfather, The (1972)
Godfather II, The (1974)
Goodfellas (1990)
Green Mile, The (1999)
Hand That Rocks the Cradle, The (1992)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)

Insider, The (1999)

I Want to Live (1958)

John Q (2002)
L.A. Confidential (1997)

Let Him Have It (1991)

M (1931)

Malcolm X (1992)
Menace II Society (1993)
Michael Clayton (2007)
Monster (2003)
Ms. 45 (1981)
Mystic River (2003)
New Jack City (1991)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Oceans 11 (1960; 2001)
Of Mice and Men (1939)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996)

Psycho (1960)
Public Enemy (1931)
Rebel without a Cause (1955)
Reefer Madness (1936)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Roger & Me (1989)
Run Lola Run (1998)
Scarface (1932)
Searchers, The (1956)
Serpico (1973)
Shaft (1971)
Shawshank Redemption, The (1994)

Shotcaller (2017)

Sicko (2007)
Silence of the Lambs, The (1991)
Sleepers (1996)
Sling Blade (1996)
Sudden Impact (1983)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Superfly (1972)
Super Size Me (2004)
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971)

Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (2005)

Syriana (2005)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Thelma & Louise (1991)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Titicut Follies (1967)
Traffic (2000)
Trainspotting (1996)
Yes Men, The (2003)
Woodsman, The (2004)

White Boy Rick (2018)