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Originally Posted by MrBottomTooth
No one said kids should have free reign. But making it illegal for them to be out past 9 PM is excessive. We seem to get by here without rounding up our kids after 9 and taking them to Youth Connection centers.
The whole idea of it being illegal to be off your property after a certain time is absurd to me. What's next on the slippery slope, mandatory electronic ankle bracelets for kids?
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Which would you rather have, more children in jail or curfew laws?
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A 2011 UC-Berkeley study looked at the 54 larger U.S. cities that enacted youth curfews between 1985 and 2002
Key study findings include: Arrests of youths directly impacted by curfew restrictions drop by almost 15% in the first year and approximately 10% in following years. ?In the average city, a permanent 10% reduction corresponds to roughly 135 [fewer] youth arrests per year.?
Arrests of young adults in their late teens or early twenties not directly impacted by curfew restrictions also slightly decline. Possible reasons include fewer cross-age interactions and additional all-ages social programming that might accompany curfew implementation.
A curfew?s impact is not dependent on the number of police officers enforcing it. Parents appear to be the primary curfew enforcers, and that ?municipal curfews act as focal point in the establishment of household policies.?
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http://journalistsresource.org/studi...-laws-arrests/