American Teens Against Crime

register with the Department of corrections 30 days prior to their release. Depending on the frequency and intensity of crime, the offenders are required to provide and renew their information for 15 years up to life. Some of the data provided such as fingerprints and drivers license are kept confidential. While on the other hand, the offender’s name, address, photograph and crime are available for public viewing. Both the Act's registration and notification requirements are…

Some of these laws have required states to establish database of people who have been convicted of certain sex acts. One of these is the Jacob Wetterling Act. This was enacted back in 1994 which required states to implement a sex offender and crimes against children registry. Megan’s Law amends the Wetterling Act and requires states to establish a notification system notifying the citizens or community of the sex offender. These acts were implemented and name after two children became victim and…

offenders and it's effect upon communities. Due to the actions of sex offenders, there are many laws that have been passed in order to notify the community, and restrict sex offenders liberties to encourage good behavior. While sex offenders committing crime compared to other criminal behavior is usually less, communities would request more restrictions on sex offenders and to severely punish them. Even while monitored closely, sex offenders are often unwelcome in the community putting a lot of…

62 percent of of offences against people. By 2010, the number of juvenile arrests is estimated to double according to the Department of Justice. Murder alone, is expected to increase by 150 percent. These statistics are frightening to many citizens in communities across America. Violence in this day and age is on the rise. Numerous communities want local officials to do something about their teens’ behavior. Officials say teen…

Do Curfews Keep Teens Out of Trouble The presupposition that curfews do not keep teens out of trouble is a categorical truth. Many people believe that curfews are ineffective. Although advocates of the opposition would argue that curfews do keep teens out of trouble, these critics are too dogmatic in their provincial ideology. Most teens when forced to follow rules will try to find ways around them. This in effect will cause more problems. Throughout history and the present, a plethora of…

victimization, policing disparities, jailing of the poor states reform sentencing, and how they all relate to juvenile delinquency. They tackle topics like juvenile drug court, juvenile drug treatment, teens being trialed as adult in courts, psychological abuse of teens and bullying and cyber bullying between teens. Cohn and Crim also use…

women and based on her childhood you can see where she gets her intelligence from. Harris was born on October 20th 1964 in Oakland, Ca to Dr. Shyamala Gopalan Harris, a breast cancer specialist, who emigrated from India and Donald Harris Jamaican American who taught economics at Stanford. Harris also had one younger sister named Maya. Harris graduated from Howard University a historically black college and to Hastings…

event, but for many teens the night will not end well. Instead of fun, teens experience high blood pressure, brain growth interference, kidney and liver failure, alcohol poisoning, and possibly death. Underage drinking could be more actively prevented; teenagers need more resources available to learn of the negative side effects which include depressive thoughts, decreased brain development, damage to organs, and car accidents. Alcohol damages brain growth, which causes teens who drink to…

aggression in minors. Many studies show that it is impossible to find a conclusion of if video games affect teen aggression because nobody can do a proper study to find out (PBS). Researchers believe that it is actually almost impossible to figure out if video games cause violence in teens. To figure it out if video games do increase violence you would have to do a study on a numerous amount of teens. You would have to get them to play violent video games on a regular basis and follow them…

Do curfews really keep teens safe and out of trouble, probably not. The argument based around curfew is essentially centered around the concept that teens will stay out of trouble when forced to stay at home. However, there cases on the opposing side in which curfews actually prevent teens from getting into trouble, but just as many or more cases found teens in performing these criminal activities. In the article, “OP-ED: Why Don’t Youth Curfews Work?” by Mike Males, the issue of the concept of…