The Importance of Youth Curfews

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The Importance of Youth Curfews

A short definition of a curfew is a time of night that if you are under 18 , 16 or whatever the age is, or you are not with an adult, you would be fined and taken home. Do we need them? This is a good question because there are so many different opinions. I will be trying to cover most of these opinions in the text you are about to read. Curfews, what are they?

A curfew is a time of day or night, usually around 8 or 9 o’clock, where you have to be off the streets if you are under a certain age
(around 16 or 18 would be normal). If you are on the streets without an adult or someone over the allowed age you will be fined and taken home. If you are doing any criminal activity you could be taken straight into police custody.

Do we need them?

At the moment there is lot of youth crime and gang related violence.
These problems lead to even bigger problems such as deaths, drugs and little children being educated to think that gang wars and drug lords are the way of life. This will never stop unless strong actions are taken and maybe a curfew could stop this. A curfew is a good choice to stop this behaviour by not letting young kids get dragged into the gang way of life and stopping drugs being sold to the children. It could also break down gang work because normally 40% to 60% of a gang would be under the age of 18. So do you think your kids would be safe enough without a youth curfew in place?

On one hand you have a thing that could stop youth crime but on the other hand it could be a breach of human rights and could also be a really annoying experience.

If you have not committed a crime or you are