Shamera Gentle Ramirez
Mr. Casasco
Current Events 4
October 16,2015
Do curfews keep teens out of trouble? For teens hearing curfew is a bummer or a buzz kill but for parents do the secretly pray upon them. A curfew is a regulation given where one has to stay indoors between specific hours. There is much debate on weather a teenage should be given a curfew and the advantages it may have but in reality they don't actually work. If teens want to get into trouble a curfew won't stop them. According to Jonathan Zimmerman curfews would just change the time in which crime takes place in his words “ one time of the day - to another”(Zimmerman 1). “Juvenile crime dropped 6 percent during the curfew hours, but it increased 13 percent in the mid afternoon“(Zimmerman 1), this shows while crime is decreasing during curfew held periods crime is increasing when curfews are not scheduled. Zimmerman further goes on to say, “ In July and August, when the curfew was not enforced, non-curfew youth crime went down 12 percent,”( Zimmerman 2) proving that crimes rates went down based on not having curfews. …show more content…
In an article written by Katie Leslie the line “it's a psychological law-- not an effective policy’,(leslie 1) is saying how curfews aren't meant for the effect it's going to bring physically but about the safe keeping that it holds within the hours it has set. “ Her organization hasn't found a clear link between curfews and crime reduction, she said, but that doesn't mean that curfews are completely without merit.”( Leslie 3) suggesting although there is no evidence to why curfews should be put into place they are still worth
Mr. Casasco
Current Events 4
October 16,2015
Do curfews keep teens out of trouble? For teens hearing curfew is a bummer or a buzz kill but for parents do the secretly pray upon them. A curfew is a regulation given where one has to stay indoors between specific hours. There is much debate on weather a teenage should be given a curfew and the advantages it may have but in reality they don't actually work. If teens want to get into trouble a curfew won't stop them. According to Jonathan Zimmerman curfews would just change the time in which crime takes place in his words “ one time of the day - to another”(Zimmerman 1). “Juvenile crime dropped 6 percent during the curfew hours, but it increased 13 percent in the mid afternoon“(Zimmerman 1), this shows while crime is decreasing during curfew held periods crime is increasing when curfews are not scheduled. Zimmerman further goes on to say, “ In July and August, when the curfew was not enforced, non-curfew youth crime went down 12 percent,”( Zimmerman 2) proving that crimes rates went down based on not having curfews. …show more content…
In an article written by Katie Leslie the line “it's a psychological law-- not an effective policy’,(leslie 1) is saying how curfews aren't meant for the effect it's going to bring physically but about the safe keeping that it holds within the hours it has set. “ Her organization hasn't found a clear link between curfews and crime reduction, she said, but that doesn't mean that curfews are completely without merit.”( Leslie 3) suggesting although there is no evidence to why curfews should be put into place they are still worth