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Do you think that "Crocks and Robbers" challenges preconceptions and stereotypes about a section of society traditionally as victims, rather than aggressors?
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Do you think that "Crocks and Robbers" challenges preconceptions and stereotypes about a section of society traditionally as victims, rather than aggressors? The programme at first begins to represent the six disabled criminals as the victims or criminal society, rather than the aggressors. However, as the documentary progresses, it is obvious that some the spectrum of representation broadens out from the victim, to the aggressor. To begin with, three of the criminals (Julian, Robbie and the woman with arthritis) said that they turned to crime because they could not get a job, as a result of their disability. Michelle Ellis, commenting on the programme on the Channel 4 website says: "Being disabled myself, I find it hard to understand that at least 2 of the people portrayed said that they would not manage to get a job - this is totally untrue!" This suggests that the representation of these criminals is worst-case...
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