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  • Essay / Boyz N The Hood Movie Analysis - 844

    Sutherland's theory that conditions believed to cause crime should be present when crime is present, and they should be absent when crime is absent. Sutherland pointed out that certain types of crimes are more prevalent in minority communities and that many individuals in those communities are law-abiding. Likewise, among the powerful and privileged, some transgress the law; some are not. His theory aims to discriminate at the individual level between those who break the law and those who do not, regardless of race, class, or ethnicity (Adler, Mueller & Laufer, 2013, p. 124) . This theory is depicted in the film, the two brothers, Darrin (Doughboy) and Ricky, are an example of how differential association theory can help clarify why two boys in the same environment, from a structural point of view social, may still prove very different from a social process perspective. Darrin was shown to only know what to do with "gangbanging", unlike Ricky who got a scholarship to play football very well and the family support of his mother to pursue it. An example of this is when Ricky opens up to his best friend "I want to be somebody" (Nicolaides & Singleton