Youth Curfews Do youth curfews really work? With crime rate rising daily in many cities, more counties and cities are introducing new youth curfew laws to keep the youth out of the street after a certain time. The issue of adopting curfew laws has become more popular as parents are more concern about their kids’ safety during night time. Although parents and the cities have good intentions to cut the rate of crimes by proposing youth curfew laws, there are several unintended consequences that lead youth curfew laws into a public disservice. Teen curfew are designed to keep the teenagers safe at night while keeping the crime rate low, it’s not designed to limit the rights of teenagers. With most crimes occur during night time, it is reasonable to say that it is more dangerous on the street when it’s night time. Many support imposing a curfew for youth as they believe that it will reduce juvenile crime and victimization. However, some might argue that youth curfew laws set limits on parents ‘decisions.
Due to the fat that curfew laws do encourage teenagers to be home sleeping when it’s night time, curfew laws do help control the pace of teenager’s lives while making sure they are not exposed to more danger during night time. As there are less people around during night time, the crime right is most likely to be higher when compared to day time. According to the Archive of Tucson Citizen, it states that “there are kids killing people and committing a variety of other
Crimes by juveniles occur more often during the day than at night. When either both parents work, or there is a single parent household, juveniles must come home from school alone. Since juveniles are left unsupervised, they sometimes commit crimes and these crimes usually occur during the day. Those opposed to curfews replied that most juvenile crimes occurred in daylight hours, that most children were not criminals, and that many legitimate nocturnal activities were being suppressed (Juvenile Curfews and the Major Confusion Over Minor Rights). Since most juvenile crimes occur during the day, why should a curfew be imposed on juveniles?
as one of the cons of curfew laws that it brings out the false sense of security that parents thinks that it will keep them away from trouble but it may not as they can be involved in violence that comes not only by night but anytime, Teens raised under curfew are expected to obey every one of their parent’s decision without argument so they have less of a personality comparing to Teens who are not under curfew and they also might get culture shock making them less adaptable. There are opinions that curfews are unconstitutional because it gives the government the right to interfere with a person’s life and privacy and personal opinions which would affect them badly.
Teen curfew can be both good or bad, depending on how you look at it but there are more negative things then positive things that curfew brings.Teen curfew laws need to be changed for several reasons, they keep teens from having fun during the night, and due to sleep cycles curfew gives teens only a few hours of freedom and sleep. In Detroit teen crime dropped 6% at night due to curfew but went up 13% in the day that is just one reason why teen curfew does not work. If police were not so focused on catching teens being out late they could focus on violent and more serious crimes. Curfew takes away freedom from teens. Teen curfew laws are too strict and need to be changed. Teen curfew laws can be both good and bad but they are causing more of a problem then they are
Do curfews keep teenagers out of trouble? This topic has always been on the cover page of today's newspaper headlines and a hot topic that has been discussed by every family. What are curfews like? A curfew is a time frame given by an authority like a parent or the government to teenagers below 18 to be home before a certain period of time. So, ask yourself, do you think that by implementing curfews into a teenager’s life, he or she would keep out of trouble. Our group has discussed and came to an agreement that curfews really do help teenagers keep out of trouble. Firstly, curfews help teenagers to stay
Curfew is a set time which teenagers will have to schedule their activities around. Generally, this curfew doesn’t change and helps your teen to understand boundaries. It is a wonderful idea for teens to have curfews because it teaches them to be responsible and also considerate of other people around them. As teenagers, it is natural for adolescents to feel like their freedoms are being taken away and that their parents don’t know what is best. However, curfew is put in place for the direct opposite, which is keeping teenagers out of trouble. Curfew teaches teenagers time management, it could lower the crime rate in local areas, and it could give teenagers an overall better relationship with their parents. Because of these reasons, I
Although having a curfew for it to be illegal for teenagers to be on the streets after ten o’clock p.m. on weekdays or after midnight on weekends would be beneficial in exceptional and deficient ways, many citizens will disagree with having a curfew. The eminently important reason Dierks, Arkansas, should have a teenage curfew is for the security of the teenagers. Another reason is for the parent to have control over their child, instead of their child being undisciplined. On the other hand, having a curfew could hinder maturity.
Curfews do not reduce teen crime. The current studies show that these laws increase crime. Kids don’t pay any attention to legal curfew, but they might listen to their parent's rules. People are slowly starting to realize that they aren’t stopping anything or anyone. More kids are doing the wrong things and getting into more trouble. People under 17 should not have a curfew because it doesn’t reduce crime from happening, enforcing the law takes up money and time, and it is also too restrictive towards kids.
Although, Some people say that a curfew is not necessarily for keeping teens out of trouble. It is for keeping the town quiet at night and gives everyone some peaceful rest at night. In the article, “Manitoba town to ban kids at night”, the mayor of Killarney, Manitoba sates,” ‘It’s not that we have a big crime problem, we just have some youngsters out to all hours of the night disturbing the peace.’ ” An easier method for this is just to have a few police working at night to ensure peace. A demanding curfew that punishes many for doing nothing is simply unnecessary. “‘Ultimately, curfew laws don't make us more safe, but they make us less free,’ says Joe Cook, executive director of the Dallas ACLU” (Rosado and Manly).
A teenagers mind is still not fully developed, meaning that they are still learning and don't make the brightest decisions. A curfew of 10 p.m. on weekdays and midnight on weekends is a good decision. Curfews will keep teenagers out of trouble because they are less likely to drink and drive, have more time for homework, and they're not quite mature enough to handle so much responsibility. Curfews will keep teenagers away from drinking and driving. Most people come home past midnight after they come back from a party. Sometimes when I watch the news they talk about accidents caused by drunk drivers; they talk about how teenagers come back from party's after midnight and get into serious accidents. Drinking and driving puts every
Night time is the usual time when people start to party. Teens also like the idea of partying at night. During the night there is a bunch of partying which also means that the is a lot of drinking and possibilities shmoking and other drugs. Carl E. Pickhardt, Ph.D. says 54% of accidents have been from drunk driving teens that have stayed out past the time they should of been inside. This means that more than half of the people out causing accidents after dark have been teens. Really, you can have the day to “chill” with your friends and have the night time to calm down and relax with your family. Using this time appropriately helps keep teens safer. Partying hanging out with family is way better then going out risking getting pulled over or crashing into somebody causing trouble. This clearly supports the idea that teens should be respecting curfew and that it does help keep them out of trouble.
A curfew of 7:oo p.m for teens will lower the crime in a city. 93% of the cities that have a youth curfew in place believe that it is a useful tool for police officers to prevent juveniles from becoming victims. 83% of cities also stated that having a curfew in place was an effective tool to help curb gang violence activities. Although most curfews are seen as a means of controlling the movement of kids at night, daytime curfews exist in over 70 US cities.
Teens usually tend to lose direction when night time arises makes them more prone to do bad things.Teens roaming the streets at night is never good they either find trouble or trouble finds them.Having a curfew gives parents a sense of closure happily knowing their children are safe.Without a curfew parents wouldn’t have a clue what their children are doing or when their coming home. A curfew would lessens the chances of them getting involved in juvenile violence and crime.
Having a teenage curfew is ineffective and useless. Many people argue that the curfews are necessary because it will keep young people out of trouble. They also say that teenagers are more likely to get in trouble late than they would during daylight. Teens are looked at as the age group that causes the most trouble, and society targets them when it comes to matter for crime, however many people believe that teens are responsible for a large percentage of crimes and that having a curfew in effect will help lower crime rates. I disagree with this because I don't think teenagers should be forced to follow a ridged time schedule because of a curfew.
Curfews do keep children out of trouble because without the curfew, there were 11 minors killed due to gun violence at night. There were more than 600 armed robberies at night. 40 youths got violent and hospitalized 59 people.
Just because they have a curfew it doesn’t mean that they aren’t going to get in trouble. It may limit the things they do. Which in turn limits the trouble they get in, but it doesn’t stop them from doing things to get them in trouble. (Wylie Tanton said on April 11, 2012 “I personally think teens shouldn't have a curfew because whether or not they have curfew teens still get themselves into trouble, not only during the night. http://www.collegenet.com/elect/app/app?service=external/Forum&sp=42891)