The Social Disorganization Theory can be applied to explain why the girls decided to commit robbery. Social Disorganization is the analysis of how people will react in accordance to their dysfunctional social environments. The main component of Social Disorganization involves how underdeveloped areas can become a breeding ground for criminals to conspire with each other. The focus of the theory will be on the Concentric Zone model proposed by Park and Burgess. For the movie, the environment most fits the second zone, which is also called the Transitional Zone. Abandoned buildings and worn-down factories fit the agenda, and it is often described to house the poorest people in the city. Because of the lengths the girls go to for money, the Transitional Zone would be the most accurate when describing their current situation.

The theory supports the reasoning why behind the girls decide to commit bank robberies, as they are responding to wildly unpredictable scenarios that stem from crime associated with Transitional Zones. Stony’s brother was mistakenly killed by the police in an area where they suspected one of the bank robbers would be. If they had been in a better area, it is entirely possible that her brother would never have been killed in the first place and Stony would have never developed criminal values that led her to becoming alone in the very end.

Cleo, T.T, and Stony also worked in a run-down janitorial factory run by their boss, Luther. The location and extremely meager pay matches up with one of the identifying characteristics of the Transitional Zone, and the unfair conditions inside that factory pushed the girls who worked there to aspire for more, which lead to the spree of bank robberies they’d commit over the city.