they have the right to give people’s children a curfew outside of the curfew the parent has created. This argument is just beginning to gain traction as teenagers want to stay out later to spend time with their friends “Netflixing and Chilling”. According to Jonathan Zimmerman’s article youth curfews date back to the late 19th century because America had an enormous amount of unsupervised teens. Similar to truancy laws and child labor laws the curfew law was created because it was said that it would
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Would a law enforced curfew be a beneficial strategy to keep teens out of trouble? A city council is debating the adoption of a ten p.m. weekday curfew and a midnight weekend curfew for teenagers. If the curfew is adopted‚ teenagers on the streets after those hours would be breaking the law. A curfew for teenagers would positively affect their lives. I believe that an enforced curfew would be very beneficial. Teenagers’ safety is an extremely important reason for a curfew. If teens are off of
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Have you noticed that most of the dangers you steer your teenagers away from during the day are out at night? Most parents give their teens a reasonable curfew to abide by while some let their teens ride around until one in the morning. Curfews set for teens by the cities and towns help to keep them safe and out of any danger they could run into during the late hours. Setting curfews can help keep teenagers off the roads late at night‚ especially when it comes to new drivers. Someone could be leaving
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Curfew Hundreds of cities nationwide have set up and enforced strict curfews on youths being in public at night or during the school day. Curfews were set to try and lower the youth crime rate. Even though only one in six violent youth crimes occur during the curfew hours. Most violent crimes happen between two and six p.m‚ the highest point being around three in the afternoon. In fact‚ eighty percent of juvenile crime occurs between nine a.m.‚ and ten p.m. Curfews are not an effective solution
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Curfew Law in Arizona. Many cities in the state of Arizona have put a curfew on all kids. Kids under the age of 16 cannot be out unsupervised between 10 pm and 5 am. Kids 16-18 cannot be out during 12 am to 5 am. Our country is a free country and allows parents to control their own kids how they choose. Who is to tell a parent how to raise their kid? The government should not be allowed to bully parents and give them rules for their own kids. These curfews are not allowing parents to control
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Western nations should not impose their standards on developing countries If we think about what is the West‚ what answers do we get? The West is the sunset‚ all that were born in the East is died in the West‚ the West is the darkness and the East is the light. And the paradox is that despite of all for historical reasons humanity used to think in terms of the West‚ takes cue from the West. What are the causes of Western predominance‚ what allows the West to dictate one’s terms to the rest of
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Should Citywide Curfews on Teens Be Allowed? In 2011 when Mayor Nutter instituted a stricter curfew for teens‚ Nijmie Zakkiyyah Dzurinko‚ executive director of the Philadelphia Student Union‚ told the Philadelphia Tribune: Not all large or small groups of students lead to violence. Individuals who break the law should be dealt with on an individual basis. Collective punishment targeting a small geographic area is not going to solve the root issue. This is important because all young people in
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Curfew Law There are many laws passed in today’s society that have a foundation for protecting our youth. Of course‚ many of these laws are a target for controversy‚ but one these laws seems to have found itself at the top of the list. This law‚ in many peoples opinion‚ is a direct violation of our rights as American citizens. Some believe that this is a gateway law that gives the government the ability to become even more overbearing and suppressing to society in general. However‚ there are also
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Teenage Curfews are Ineffective Teenage curfews are ineffective because the same way the death penalty doesn’t completely prevent crime curfews won’t prevent a teen from sneaking out and committing a crime either. That means that we’re essentially wasting money on police enforcement to make sure that teenagers are not committing crimes when studies show that if anything the crime rate has went up since more curfews were put into place. “A study by researchers at the Center on Juvenile and Criminal
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adoption of a 10 p.m. weekday curfew and midnight curfew for teenagers. If this curfew is adopted‚ teenagers on the streets after those hours would be considered breaking the law. I support this adoption because we would be keeping the city safer and keeping the young adults safe and out of trouble after dark. To begin with‚ this curfew will keep them out of trouble after the adopted times. Not saying that we could stop all of them from going out after this curfew and catch them‚ but we could enforce
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