How To Reduce Juvenile Crime

Teen curfews is not an effective way to reduce Juvenile crime because even though teens have a curfew at night it still does not prevent them to do crime during the day. For example, crime during the day will just increase and that does not make a difference in the reduction of juvenile crime. Curfews will not keep teens out of trouble because teenagers like to act popular and being out of the house after their curfew will just make them look cooler.

One reason why teen curfews are not an effective way to decease Juvenile crime is because “most crimes do not accrue at night they mostly accrue in the afternoon when they are not watched by an adult.” (Teen Curfews, p.7). For instance, there is no point of making curfews because teens tend to create trouble when an adult does not supervise them because they do not have anyone to stop them or tell them what to do. According to the text “Teen curfews” it states, “Others claim that curfews and ineffective, pointing to statistics showing that most juvenile crimes occur between 3p.m. and 6p.m., usually right after the school days end, and many teenagers have little to do then, but loiter.” (Teen Curfews, p.6). For example, curfews are useless because teens create trouble right after school hours not at night because the have nothing better to do. …show more content…
In the text it states, “The problem with curfew laws is that most kids, the good, the bad and the tired, are asleep at midnight.” (Teen Curfews, p.7). At night teens are asleep and they do not feel like doing any crime because they might be too tired and the crime that they committed would not go as