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Teen Curfew ordinance
However, the most compelling argument against curfews is probably the lack of evidence establishing their effectiveness. According to Jeffrey Butts of the Urban Institute, a think tank, many mayors and police officers flattered themselves with the effects of the curfew, while the results were simply due to the decline in the crime rate. throughout the country. No consistent study, he says, has demonstrated a link between curfew and the decline in crime. The most comprehensive work on the subject seems to prove the opposite. Their authors, Mike Males and Dan Macallair, CJJP, examined a series of curfews in place in California between 1978 and 1996, and found that the most severe counties had not experienced a larger decline in crime than those that did not( . had not applied a curfew( Trollinger949). In fact, it is hardly surprising that the curfew has little effect on crime: most offenses attributed to minors are committed between 3 pm and 8 pm, between the end of classes and return parents at home. Another study concluded that juvenile crime rates correlate not to curfews but to crime rates among adults in the same community”( Bailey, Hugh, et al1).
What is the violation of the curfew fraught with? The child may be detained by the police or the juvenile committee. If at the same time he did not commit any offense, then most likely he will be delivered home and handed over to his parents, after which a penalty will be imposed on the parents, If this incident occurred for the first time, then legal representatives can receive only a warning, but they will have to explain why and, most importantly, through whose fault the child was in a place prohibited for him. Detain children and adolescents only for violating the "curfew" is impossible. The exception is cases when a minor refuse to give his name and address of residence and does not have any documents with him. In such a situation, he can be taken to the department for identification.
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Bailey, Hugh, et al. “Curfew an Ineffective Distraction from Real Solutions.” Connecticut Post,
25 July 2012, https://www.ctpost.com/opinion/article/Curfew-an-ineffective-distraction-from-real-3735234.php.
Trollinger, Tona. "The juvenile curfew: unconstitutional imprisonment." Wm. & Mary Bill Rts.
J. 4 (2015): 949.
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