I understand that our community wants to institue a night-time curfew for teenagers under the age of seventeen. However‚ I do not believe that the proposed curfew for youths is the most efficeient or even legal way of handling juvenile crime in our community. Although a teenage curfew sounds like an appealing solution to juveinle crime‚ i think that it achieves very little. The first thing we must look at is the legality of curfews themselves. under the first Amendment‚ all citizens have freedom
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their families instead of being on the streets. Juvenile curfew laws are local ordinances that prevent people under a certain age from being on the streets after during or after certain hours. Juvenile curfews are important in keeping juveniles as well as communities safe. Many juveniles feel curfews are just another way of adults being able to tell them what to do‚ and are very likely to simply ignore the curfew. In many cases‚ curfews are not set up as punishment but as a way to keep everyone
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to put a public curfew affecting minors‚ normally around 10 pm. In the Outsiders by S.E. Hinton there is no curfew‚ would it have been helpful to the characters? Would it have affected them? Despite popular belief‚ some believe that there should be no curfew‚ and it may have helped the characters. Some people believe that there should be a curfew for minors. If there is a curfew there would be less time to get in trouble. “You really killed him‚ huh‚ Johnny?" If there was a curfew Johnny and Ponyboy
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Curfew: Limited Time Prison for Children It is not fair to have a curfew because of a group of idiot teenagers. Because of them other kids are being punished. Is it fair that because of a few bad apples‚ your innocent child can’t go outside after curfew? They can’t take out the trash or go to the market to get some bread. Does this make sense? If there is some bad apples in the basket so what‚ do you really want the good ones to be affected? There are lots of potential child criminals such as
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Josel B. Dao-anis 01-14-15 English 5 MWF 4:00-5:00 Resolved that the full implementation of curfew hours in La Trinidad. A. Are you in favor of the above proposition? As I concerned‚ I was in favor of the full implementation of curfew hours in La Trinidad for everybody’s safety. If that could be happen there will be no minors loitering around public places‚ there will be no drinkers making unnecessary disturbance for the other public establishment like in the grocery‚ coffee shops‚ and
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best for the students‚ the town council should not enforce the curfew because it is not the council’s responsibility to take care of the students‚ and parents own the students ;therefore‚ it is the parents possibility to the decide the curfew. It is not the town council’s job to take care of the students. The town council is too busy taking care of more important situations in the town. It would be too hectic to put a universal curfew for students in the town. This would be a distraction to the real
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DO CURFEWS KEEP TEENS OUT OF TROUBLE? Do you literally know the real meaning of curfew and the history behind it? According to Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (2010)‚ the word “curfew” gives out two meanings; a commandment which prohibits individuals from going outside after a specific interval at nightfall and a period when broods must be home in the dusk. Curfew was originated from a French saying‚ “couvre-feu” which means “cover the fire” and back in Medieval England‚ it was mandatory for
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portrays several aspects of social psychology. The first is her attitude towards her curfew. She is shown to be obedient towards the curfew‚ but is persuaded by her new friends through the peripheral route because she likes them and‚ lastly‚ was having fun enough that she felt she could ignore her curfew. This also opens her up to cognitive dissonance in that she knows she needs to be obedient and obey her curfew but she also is having a good time with her friends and does not want to go home‚ causing
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article “State of mind” is based on the current state/status of Trinidad and Tobago; that is‚ the imposition of a state of emergency and ‘limited’ curfew by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar‚ in an attempt to combat the issue of an alarming increase in violent crimes. This article also serves as a reminder of the effect of the previously imposed curfew in relation with the unsuccessful attempted 1990 ‘Coup’. It also questions the formalities and manner in which the Prime Minister declared the state
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student‚ freedom of movement is usually restricted by parental curfews‚ and as a high school student myself‚ I have been constrained by curfews on numerous occasions. I am an introvert who would rather stay at home over the weekends watching movies than actively socializing with people. However‚ I do have my occasional late-night outings during the holidays. My diversion always tends to stay unhampered with until I am reminded of my curfew by a phone call from my parents‚ demanding me to return home
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