Juveniles and Justice
Juveniles and Justice
A documentary linking socio-economic factors to juvenile criminal behavior. Interviews with experts on juvenile crime. Clips showing the urban reality of minority kids and what life inside juvenile detention facilities is like. None of the juvenile offenders have their faces visible. They are either blocked out or the camera shoots them from behind.
Juveniles and Justice
MS of a Caucasian male teenager being handcuffed by a police officer, night. His face is not seen. (arrest, criminal)
Juveniles and Justice
DO NOT SELL: Opening title.
Juveniles and Justice
Rack focus CU of police lights flashing, night, zoom out to MS of host Sheila Banks introducing show: "Where have we gone wrong as parents, as a society, and what do we do about it?"
Juveniles and Justice
Cut to 1984 newsreel regarding the gang rape and murder of Catherine Fuller, a mother of six and resident of Washington, DC: MSs of paramedics rolling a covered dead body on a stretcher from a crime scene, into waiting ambulance; MS African-American policeman using two-way radio. MSs detectives and personnel conducting investigation.
Juveniles and Justice
DO NOT SELL: Still of Montgomery, Co., Maryland resident Stevie Wilson, a boy who was slashed "beyond recognition" by a playmate in 1984.
1985 - Juveniles and Justice
Caucasian children playing, hiking through a creek; MCU red Radio Flyer wagon.
Juveniles and Justice
DO NOT SELL: Newspaper headline about a babysitter who was killed by teenagers. Stills of Craig Cromwell, a young black teen was killed outside a housing prject in 1984.
Juveniles and Justice
Low angle MS of signs marking W. Franklin and N. Fremont intersection in DC, a housing project in BG and a liquor store sign (Coca-Cola sponsored) in FG.
Juveniles and Justice
DO NOT SELL: Blk & white photos. MS small church service. Unidentified TV station coverage of murder in South Philadelphia.
Juveniles and Justice
MSs children playing in a park and walking along a sidewalk.
Juveniles and Justice
DO NOT SELL: Graphic outlining who the serious juvenile offenders are (economically young minority male from broken home with inadequate supervision).