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Books not Bars

December 13, 2010
The decriminalization of juvenile offenders is the issue that the movie Books not Bars  shown on December 10th in the frameworks of human rights week by the Human Rights Center talks about.

Books not Bars touches the racism problems in the USA, the life of juvenile offenders, the wrong politics of US government and seeking the ways for eliminating crimes in the youth.

The movie director thinks that the incorrect distribution of the budget by the US government increases the number of crimes in the youth. The movie Books not Bars clearly demonstrates that the number of crimes will significantly decrease if the money allocated for the so-called “super prisons’’ are used for the education field.

The movie shows schools which indirectly incite the students to commit crimes. Policemen work all day long in the schools of “poor districts” and daily “search” the students. There is a special device montage in the entrance where the students are checked before entering. The psychologists explain that these kinds of conditions promote crimes.

As the psychologist Tina Javakhishvili noted “similar situation creates expectation that the policemen expect them to commit crimes. This is a precondition for committing crime. The juvenile sooner or later will definitely do what people expect from him/her.

Psychologist draws parallel with the Georgian public schools where the bailiffs fulfill function of policemen. According to him, it is inevitable to inform the students correctly and explain that the goal of control is not the expectation of crime from their side but the ensuring of security.

Sopo Getsadze

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