Are curfews effective against crime?? [9]

By Kristy Gillentine
Eagle Staff Writer
1. Juvenile crime rate down in Bryan
2. Curfew looks to limit juvenile crime

This was actually two articles, but they were both by the same author about the same topic so put them together. The juvenile crime rate in Bryan was pretty high, so the Bryan police decreased to enforce a curfew in order to bring it down. When they did the number of citations issued to juveniles decreases along with the number of juvenile witnesses to crime, juvenile victims and reported runaways. Two areas slightly increases, the juveniles solicited as suspects and the number of graffiti incidents. The curfew helps the police keep the kids off of the streets during the summer. Jackie Maynard says “It creates a partnership between police and parents.”

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Boy, 15, wins curfew legal battle

BBC NEWS

This article talks about how a 15-year-old boy has won a landmark High Court challenge to the legality of child curfew zones used to tackle anti-social behavior. The boy is described as a model student, he says, "Of course I have no problem with being stopped by the police if I've done something wrong, but they shouldn't be allowed to treat me like a criminal just because I'm under 16.

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The Impact of Juvenile Curfew Laws in California
By Daniel Macallair

A study was done to see if curfews helped cut back juvenile curfew in California. The study showed that youth curfews do not reduce youth crime. For the entire state of California, there was no category of crime, misdemeanors, violent crime, property crime, ect, which significantly declined in association with youth curfews. However, a significant increase in youth misdemeanors was associated with youth curfews. Just African-American youth or Latino youth, the study found that youth curfews associated with no significant effect on crime. The study did find that for White and Asian youth, curfews associated with an increase in crime.

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Can curfew cut crime?
By Brandon Bryn

The article talks about how D.C. residents are reacting to the new curfew. It seems like many people really do not think it will do much good. Others think that some action is better then no action. On the page, people were able to leave comments and one off the comments was from Gary Caddell who has worked as a juvenile Probation Officer for the past 27 years. In the comment, she suggests that they have a fine for the parents to help the curfew work.

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Life of crime
By Peter Gould's report

This article talks a lot about alcohol in teens. Some of people think that it would be a good idea to enforce a curfew. Others think that it would be unfair for the teens who aren't drinking and causing problems.40% of violent crime, 78% of assaults and 88% of criminal damage cases are committed while the offender is under the influence of alcohol. Drunkenness is now the acceptable sign of a good night out. Aggression and thuggery, fuelled by drink, is rapidly increasing. There are not enough police officers patrolling the streets. There is a total disregard for common decency.

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Groups fear mayor's anti-crime bill invades privacy
By Michael Zimmerman

This article comes from a different view. It lets the readers know that many times teens under 18 are not the ones committing the crimes, but yet they are being punished for them. The city is already spending a lot of money on police overtime and cameras in neighborhoods. The mayor thinks it would be a better idea to have some after school programs, more jobs, trade schools for those older kids that do not go to college, mentoring programs and recreation centers for older kids and those that will stay open until curfew.

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Minor Restrictions: The Challenge of Juvenile Curfews

by Anthony Crowell

This article talks about juvenile crime rates. In 1990 juveniles in Dallas committed 40 murders, 91 sex offenses, 233 robberies, and 230 aggravated assaults. City leaders reporter that homicides most commonly occurred between 10 p.m. and 1 a.m., aggravated assaults between 11 p.m. and 1 a.m., and rapes between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m. Curfews are both politically powerful and divisive tools for local crime control. The impact of curfews on crime and delinquency nationally still has not been studied, but many local governments have reported that curfews have helped reduce crime during curfew hours. Curfews opponents agree that juvenile crime and violence prevention are serious problems, they argue that it will not significantly reduce crime because only law abiding, nontroublemaking teenagers will obey them. Another concern is that unequal or discriminatory curfew enforcement will result in high-crime, urban-minority communities in which backyards or other curfew-exempt areas where youth can congregate are not prevalent. The law prohibited anyone in Dallas under 17 years of age from occupying a public place between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. on weeknights, and midnight and 6 a.m. on weekends. But curfews do not apply to juveniles if they were: accompanied by a parent, legal guardian, or someone at least age 18 with minor's parental approval; traveling interstate or returning from school, civic, or religious organization-sponsored function; returning home from a place of employment; running an errand for a parent or guardian; involved in an emergency; occupying a sidewalk in front of their own, or neighbor's home; or exercising First Amendment rights. Before passing a curfew the local government must consider a number of things. They need to have a clear purpose for their curfew. Local government could prepare detailed reports highlighting juvenile offender and victim statistics. They should track crime occurring during the proposed curfew hours, including such violent crimes as murder and rape, property destruction, theft, and gang-related offenses. The information should be broken down by age group and be collected and maintained by the local police agency to ensure consistency. The government officials have to realize that in order for the curfews to work they have to use as complete as other crime control and social welfare measures. In addition, they will need increased funding for community policing, anti-gang, anti-gun, anti-drug initiatives and better rehabilitation programs for juvenile offenders.

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It's time to get our priorities straight?
Source: Commercial Motor; 11/09/2006, Vol. 204 Issue 5203, pg 10-10, 1 pg.

To be honest this article really was not that helpful, it was short. It talked a lot about nighttime curfews for drivers and truck drivers. It sounded like the author thought that only trucks should drive at night and get there deliveries do. It is too dangerous to have teens and other drivers out driving around out there at the same time.

Are curfews effective against crime??

America On Curfews
Even Small, Quiet Towns Are Clamping Down on Teens.
by Sue Anne Pressley
Washington Post Staff Writer.

This article talks about how in Clifton, Texas they passed a new law for teens. Everyone under 17 years old must be in by 11 p.m. and midnight on weekends, unless you are with an adult or have a good reason to be out. Penalties begin with a warning and can lead up to as much as a $500 fine against parents. "What's happening is we're punishing them like adults but treating them like adults." says Louis Rhodes, executive director of the Arizona ACLU. A 15 year old girl named Siri Kvalvik was playing on swings in a park a few yards from one of the girls homes. Her parents gave her permission to stay out until midnight. But Siri was arrested by police after they called her mother asking for the girl’s whereabouts. Her mother could not pinpoint that her daughter had drifter from her friends house to the swing sets. "I asked for my rights to be read three or four times," says Siri, who was photographed and fingerprinted, a practice Phoenix police have since halted. "But they said because I was a kid, I didn't have rights." At the juvenile courts found Siri guilty automatically declaring her incorrigible, meaning legally that she is beyond rehabilitation, a decision the Kvalvik's are appealing.

Spring Break

The best part of my spring break would be going up to my best friends katie's house. We went shopping, to a couple parties, driving, and a bunch of random stuff. Later in the week I came home and hung out with my friends down here. On Friday, my dad took me to get a new cell phone. While we were getting it Katie got a ride down to the cities and surprised me at the store, it was pretty sweet. Then we went to the bowling ally with a bunch of people and bowled for a couple hours. Saturday was St. Patrick's Day, Katie came over and we were hungary so we walked to a bunch of stores. We got cake mix, frosting, and food for us. We walked home and baked a green cake. After we had it made and decorated, we carried it to our friends house for a St. Patrick's Day party. The party was a lot of fun and we got to see all of our friends we hadn't seen in a while. Later that night we went home and fell a sleep on my bed.

day five. Mount Everest

Problem: There were a lot of problems I noticed about Mount Everest. The one that I noticed the most was how dangerous it is and how almost 200 climbers have perished on Mount Everest in the last half-century. Also when they die on the Mountain they remain there, becuase there is no way to get them down or do anything with their bodies.

Evidence:

"Sharp was making his return after reaching the peak. He died on the mountain and remains there, as have many of the almost 200 climbers who have perished on Everest in the last half-century.", "When you're up there and can barely breathe, you can't eat, you can barely drink--all you can really do is plod on upwards with this one thing in mind," said Arnold, who has climbed to Everest's summit. "What it would involve to launch a rescue would almost be beyond the brain capacity of a person at high altitude." [Morality on a Slippery Slope].

Mount Everest is both the highest mountain and the highest graveyard in the world. As of 2002, 175 climbers had died on the mountain, and the vast majority of these bodies were left behind. There are reported to be at least 41 bodies on the north side of Everest. [Dead bodies on Everest]

Contributing Factors: Mount Everest is 25,000 feet above sea level where oxygen is sparse, winds are fierce and temperatures reach 100 below. These extremely harsh conditions are known as the Death Zone. When some climbers are on the mountain trails they can run out or gas and freeze to death right there. Others maybe killed by avalanches. Rescueing climbers is also very difficult.

Possible Solution: My first idea for a solution was to have people that know the mountain well to remove the dead bodies. But doing that is a very difficult task. On one of the websites I was looking at there was a story about how it took a team of 12 people eight hours to move a dead body down a portion of the mountain. With the harsh conditions very few climbers attempt to take the bodies of the dead people they were climbing with back. Many bodies will be left there forever. To avoid all this people should be more prepared to climb and ready to call for help if they need it.

day three. [tartan problem]

State the Problem
One of the problems I have noticed at Tartan is that there are a lot of fights.

Give Evidence
Once in a while when you are in the lunch room you'll see some kids fighting and a lot of the time people will be talking about a fight that is going to happen or one they saw.

Examine Contributing Factors
Somethings that contributes factors to fights is that some people disrespect eachother. Othertimes it will start with a verbal fight and get more serious leading to a fist fight.

Propose a Solution
People could settle their problems more maturely.

day two.

pretty sure we did this in class.

day one.

I baby-sit for a couple who have two very cute kids that are fun to be around. But when i baby-sit for them they never come home at the time they say they will. So instead of making a big deal about it, I decided to not make plans after babysitting.