The movie-training day is about a veteran officer who takes a rookie on his first day of training with L.A.P.D. Denzel Washington plays the L.A.P.D. detective Alonzo Harris and Ethan Hawke plays the role of rookie officer Jake Hoyte. Hoyte who was once a former security guard applied for a position as an undercover Narcotics officer. In order to be accepted as a Narcotics officer Hoyte must first endure 24 hours of training from veteran officer Alonzo Harris. Officer Harris is known to have a bad reputation on how he enforces the law, he is known for not treating victims very well, abusing suspects, mishandling drugs and other evidence. Throughout the 24-hour training period ethical dilemmas arise and Hoyte begins to question Harris’s methods …show more content…
Social Control Theory is a “theory in criminology that proposes that individuals are prevented from committing antisocial behavior or crime because of the bonds they hold to society, such as their attachment to parents or significant others (p.5)”. From the very beginning of the movie, it was obvious that Hoyte was faced with some ethical dilemmas. In many instances he had the opportunity to make his own decision and in some case he did not. Hoyte was dedicated to protecting and serving his country, but with Harris influence his moral obligations began to dwindle as the 24-hour training period progressed. You could tell that Hoyte wanted to do the right thing, but after Harris dragged him into several illegal activities Hotyt began to not even question if what he was doing was …show more content…
Hoyte forced Harris to stop the car so he could help. Hoyte bolted down the ally where he began to fight the two attackers and after gaining control of them, he began to read them their rights so he could take them into custody. As Hoyte was proceeding with protocol Harris came up and confronted the attackers then started beating them and taking their money and crack pipes. Once Harris took what he wanted and thought they had enough, he told them to get up and go. Hoyte question Harris about letting them go stating that they needed to be taken into the station, but Harris just told him to forget about it saying the gangs would take care of them. So as the attackers walked away Hoyte stood confused about what Harris had just done, yet he did not question him again about his actions. The sole idea of social control theory is that an individual's basic belief system, values, morals, commitments, and relationships foster a lawful environment. People such as officer Hoyte, who have beliefs and community commitments, are often known to have a level of self-control over their actions when it comes to acting according to the socially accepted
A social institution can shape individual behaviors because it can get someone used to having their life controlled daily. If someone’s actions are controlled and limited daily, they will get used to it and will seek to continue being controlled. For example, if one is used to receiving orders they will continue following through with the orders because that is what they were trained to do. In the article, “Anybody’s Son Will Do”, Dyer describes ways total institutions shape individual behaviors by explaining the method marines use to recruit new soldiers for war. When joining the marines, the methods marines use to shape the behavior of civilians begins at Parris Island when the civilians are intentionally picked up late in the day to ensure that when they arrive at Parris Island, they are tired enough to receive shock treatment. After their arrival at Parris Island, the civilians are not allowed to step outside the controlled environment until they graduate
The movie “Training Day” is a simple motif of good cop vs. bad cop. When rookie cop Jake Hoyt, Ethan Hawke, who is escorted by Alonzo Harris played by Denzel Washington through the city of Los Angeles to train his way as a narcotic unit. As the movie progresses Jakes impression of Alonzo was not the idea of being ‘hard’ on the streets, but a sense of corruption, where Jakes attempt to figure out what is justice and what crosses the line in order to protect the community.
Due to the increase of popularity of the interscholastic athletic activities on the past few years, several researches process, recommendation, and manuals have been developed by diverse organizations such as the American college of sports medicine, and the national athletic trainer association. These organizations and their members have been working extensively to develop awareness over the importance of providing high quality medical service which can improve the medical outcome of the patient. At the same time, these organization developed regulations to standardize the medical service offered by the sport medicine team; especially by athletic trainers.
...od and bad in life. Training Day scripted too much negativity into a movie that took place over only one day, and that is why it is not realistic.
Consequentialism is a term used by the philosophers to simplify what is right and what is wrong. Consequentialist ethical theory suggests that right and wrong are the consequences of our actions. It is only the consequences that determine whether our actions are right or wrong. Standard consequentialism is a form of consequentialism that is discussed the most. It states that “the morally right action for an agent to perform is the one that has the best consequences or that results in the most good.” It means that an action is morally correct if it has little to no negative consequences, or the one that has the most positive results.
The study was based in a mock prison, and the main purpose of the study was to see if the participants would conform to their assigned roles (Haslam, 2014). As the experiment went on the participants reacted to their roles in predict, and unpredicted ways. The “prison guards” began to believe they were indeed in that role, and would become physical with the “prisoners”. The mental being of the prisoner participant’s began to diminish, and the experiment was then forced to finish before completion. This experiment shows how quickly the behaviors conformed to their roles, and caused the experiment to become unethical due to the fact the participants were than facing physical and mental harm as a result. Again we see here, the Stanford students conforming to an authoritarian role, and not following their own personal morals almost as if they were brainwashed into their new
Every participant went through three hundred volts before they stopped and refused to go any further (McLeod, 2007). This study demonstrates that obedience is a part of who we are. Milgram concludes that there are two states of behavior. The first is autonomous behavior where the individual takes responsibility and the other is agentic state responsibility is on the person giving the orders (McLeod, 2007). People who are ordinary are capable of harming other individuals if a person of authority tells them to. For a person to be obedient they must believe the person giving the orders is qualified and will take responsibility. A person is less likely to harm another person if the authoritative person is not going to take responsibility. This was proven in Milgram’s study because when he told individuals they had to take responsibility they did not want to continue. The Milgram study has influenced other psychologist to explore what makes a person follow orders (Cherry, 2012). The other experiments that Milgram conducted showed that rebellious people are not as obedient. There were different environments demonstrated among the different studies that Milgram used and even though the environment changed the situation stayed the
“Accept the challenge so that you can feel exhilaration of victory”. This quote was said by George S. Patton is discussion the important role that Athletic trainer should work and work until they win. Who are we are highly qualified multi skilled health care professionals. Also Athletic trainer prevent diagnosis treatment and rehabilitation of emergent acute or chronic injuries. Were also known for being high qualified multi skilled health care professional. Being and athletic trainer is a great and hardworking career. That involves meeting new people, dealing with different challenge each day, Also it has moderate schooling.
There are many definitions to theory. According to Akers (2009) “theories are tentative answers to the commonly asked questions about events and behavior” (Akers, (2009, p. 1). Theory is a set of interconnect statements that explain how two or more things are related in two casual fashions, based upon a confirmed hypotheses and established multiple times by disconnected groups of researchers.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation received its current name in 1935. To be in the FBI you must be: between 23 and 36 years old; in great physical shape; U.S. citizen; have a college degree; and at least three years professionally working. (Hamilton 4). One in twenty people that register for the FBI are accepted for the twenty weeks of training. (FBI Special 7). The FBI training academy is in Quantico, Virginia. The training that the Federal agents receive prepares them for real life situations.
Overall, Training Day proved to send a powerful message and gave us a small glimpse of what is truly happening in our society. The film shows the effects that drugs and violence are having in our cities. Training Days takes us into world of crime where corruption is happening among our most trusted police officers.
When put into an authoritative position over others, is it possible to claim that with this new power individual(s) would be fair and ethical or could it be said that ones true colors would show? A group of researchers, headed by Stanford University psychologist Philip G. Zimbardo, designed and executed an unusual experiment that used a mock prison setting, with college students role-playing either as prisoners or guards to test the power of the social situation to determine psychological effects and behavior (1971). The experiment simulated a real life scenario of William Golding’s novel, “Lord of the Flies” showing a decay and failure of traditional rules and morals; distracting exactly how people should behave toward one another. This research, known more commonly now as the Stanford prison experiment, has become a classic demonstration of situational power to influence individualistic perspectives, ethics, and behavior. Later it is discovered that the results presented from the research became so extreme, instantaneous and unanticipated were the transformations of character in many of the subjects that this study, planned originally to last two-weeks, had to be discontinued by the sixth day. The results of this experiment were far more cataclysmic and startling than anyone involved could have imagined. The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast the discoveries from Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford prison experiment and of Burrhus Frederic “B.F.” Skinner’s study regarding the importance of environment.
Creative new training methods, developed by coaches, athletes and sport scientists, are aimed to help improve the quality and quantity of athletic training ( Kellmann, 2010, p.1). However, these methods have encountered a consistent set of barriers including overtraining ( Kellmann, 2010, p.1). Due to these barriers, the need for physical and mental recovery in athletics brought an increasing attention in practice and in research ( Kellmann, 2010, p.1).
Social Control Theory presumes that people will naturally commit crime if there were left to their own devices (i.e. no laws in society) and people do not commit crimes because of certain controlling forces, such as social bonds that hold individuals back partaking on their anti social behavior (Bell, 2011). Examples of controlling forces are family, school, peers, and the law. Young people who are t... ... middle of paper ... ... nd delinquent are more likely to partake in committing criminal behavior (Shaefer and Haaland, 2011, p.155-156).
However, the duration and intensity of the interaction play a significant role in its impact. In addition, one must value the agent of socialization in order to be impacted by him/her. Within one day, Hoyt was exposed to numerous offending behaviors, such as violence, rape, drug dealing, theft, and murder. Harris stresses one must be like a ‘wolf’ in order to survive in this world. In other words, he insists on forgetting the official academy training and obeying street codes, even if it requires breaking the laws. In order to steer the trainee into this corrupt direction, Harris stresses differential reinforcement by the idea that the position can be taken away from him. Therefore, he encourages corruption by this negative reinforcement, where something valued by the person would be taken away. Hoyt does not want to lose this new position, so he frequently breaks the law and exhibits offending behaviors throughout the day. For instance, he smokes weed while on the job, he does not turn in the rapist as he is supposed to, and he keeps quiet about Harris’ theft from the African American woman. However, the duration of this pro-criminality exposure is short; one day only. In addition, Hoyt holds standard values about police duty in enforcing the laws. He disagrees with Harris’ methods. Thus, it is reasonable to argue that he does not value his training commander as a role model. As a result, Hoyt is not completely influenced by this social interaction, and he stays true to other stronger, social influences in his life, such as the longer academy