One Year in a Life of Crime [Institutional License*]

Price: $175.00

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Overview

One Year in a Life of Crime follows Robert, Mike and Freddy, three professional criminals from Newark New Jersey. Everyday they get in their cars, drive to the suburbs, and steal $500 to $1,000 worth of merchandise.

Description

*Institutional License Agreement:

The Educational/Institutional License will provide your organization with the right to screen the Program to non-paying audiences (in classrooms, libraries, etc.), as well as with library lending rights and lifetime replacement should your copy become unusable.

This Program is protected under U.S. Copyright. Duplication and commercial screenings are prohibited by law. Prior to shipping, a hard copy of the license will be mailed to you. This form must be signed and returned to DCTV by your organization. Once it has been received the program will be shipped to you.

Downtown Community Television Center is a not-for-profit media center in lower Manhattan dedicated to providing training and facilities for underserved communities, particularly inner-city youth. The proceeds of this sale go towards sustaining these valuable programs.

Everyday 96,000 crimes are committed in the United States. Every year more of our nation's youth choose a criminal path instead of an honest one. DCTV decided to go out and find some of these faceless criminals in order to discover what made them follow a life of crime and to find out what society can do to curb the growing epidemic of crime in America.

One Year in a Life of Crime follows Robert, Mike, and Freddy--three professional criminals from Newark, New Jersey. Every day they get in their cars, drive to the suburbs, and steal $500 to $1,000 worth of merchandise. For 12 months we documented their lives. With hidden cameras we recorded a number of crimes as they were actually happening. The ease with which Robert and Freddy cleaned out the silverware in a department store is astounding.

How did these three young men break away from the rules of society and wind up outside the law? We went into their homes to try to find out.

Credits:

Producer/Director: Jon Alpert, Mary Ann DeLeo, Janet Storti
Editors: Dani Froelich, Jon Alpert, Mary Ann DeLeo, John Godfrey

Technical Details:

1989, 53 min, Color