If the parents know that their children are going to be out until the set time of curfew, then they know when their worrying will end. ... Towns and cities implement curfews to limit the amount of vandalism and other crimes teenagers commit while out late at night (Anderson). ... Many parents believe that giving their kids a curfew is going to keep them out of trouble completely and that nothing bad is going to happen to them. Even with a curfew teens are going to do what they want (Anderson). ... Curfews are set up for the protection and well being of teenagers. ...

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These problems will contribute a great negative effect on teenagers. ... Soon, teenagers will seek the euphoric effects of drugs. ... Teenagers start drinking because of their family issues, they drink to make feel older, mature, and sociable; another cause of teenager drinking is peer pressure. ... As a young age, the nervous systems are not fully developed, the alcohol is absorbed into their bodies faster, making them more likely go get alcohol poisoning. ... Going into 21st century, we have to face the problems of our future generations, there are many non-profitable organizations that ...

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As the story goes we can see that the behavior of Ponyboy change an at the end it turns to a different person more mature. ... He thought that deserve to go to jail for it. ... On the contrary he had good grades in school and is an easy going teen. ... He is confused of who to follow and this confusion didn't help him as the story goes. ... She wrote this book for teenagers. ...

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Since that law was passed, teenagers have become dedicated to finding a way to have the legal drinking age lowered back to the age of eighteen. ... The first argument that teenagers have against the drinking age being twenty-one is their enrollment for the draft. They believe that if they are able to go to war and die for their country, then they should be able to buy a six-pack. ... If the majority of teens are going to use their eligibility to vote as a reason to lower the Magnuson-2- drinking age, then the majority of them should actually go vote when it is time. At eighteen, most t...

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by Michael Olesker is about the problems facing the juvenile system and how the system has affected young teenagers. ... Allen even goes on to say that "none of these kids is ever going to be president of a corporation, and it is hypocritical of us to think that keeping things secret is helping anybody" (28), which is untrue. There are many things that teenagers do that they regret later in life, but that does not mean that these kids have no prospects. ... A lot of teenagers are not getting the help they need to avoid bad situations that keep dragging them down. ... Allen sees the same teen...

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What person who plans on using a gun for illegal purposes would go through the legal process of having the gun registered to them? ... If gun control legislation were to go through there would be a significant decline in gun related crimes and Fatalities. ...

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Without adult restrictions, all teenagers would be free to be delinquents. ... Most juvenile offenders go on to become chronic offenders. ... Teenagers under the influence of drugs become more violent and rebellious in a world of adult restrictions. ... If you are tried as a juvenile, you do not go to prison but a detention center such as Ethan Allen or Whales. ... Preventative intervention provides a school environment that permits teenagers to that their actions can bring about desired consequences. ...

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Department of Justice believes that alcohol and drugs play a major role in the lives of teenagers in our day of age. ... This sudden availability of drugs among teenagers obviously has a negative effect on their actions. ... Nobody would enjoy being in contact with a homicidal teenager, just recently released due to the holes in the justice system. ... Unfortunately, using imprisoned teenagers as role-models cannot be as effective as using other teenagers who don't get in trouble at all. ... Juvenile offenders should be punished more severely to deter other teenagers from committing cr...

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The statistics prove time and time again that aggression and television viewing do go hand in hand. ... Social environment and family lifestyle have been proved to have a direct affect on a teenagers" behaviour. ... Teenagers often commit acts of violence to get their parents" attention. ... Among the teenagers coming from villages the situation is even worse. Teenagers believe that there is no chance of improving their life situation, they lose willingness for any activity. ...

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In the novel, A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess Alex is a teenager who decides to partake in many delinquent activities. ... Alex is a smart teenager who plays the leadership role in his gang. ... Nightly, Alex and his droogs go out and drink moloko (milk) laced with drugs. ...

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These teenagers will not be given the opportunity of rehabilitation and will come out of jail only tougher. ... Adult criminals will then take advantage of these teenagers. ... This also means that the three strikes law is going to be in more use because of the fact that more felonies are going to be committed. ... Many teenagers will go to prison for silly things like for example shoplifting. ... This will increase the statistics because there will be more teenagers put in jail because of this law. ...

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There are too many factors that go into judging a juveniles behavior like peer pressure, environment, the way their being raised and mental state. ... Teenagers interact with a lot of peer groups. ... Others may go along because they are curious to try something new that others are doing. ... Even small amounts of negative peer pressure during these years when the brain is still developing can lead at-risk teenagers to delinquent behaviors.... In conclusion there are too many factors that go into judging a juveniles behavior like peer pressure, environment, the way their being raised and menta...

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It can poison the minds of children and teenagers and lead to violent behavior. ... The APA goes on to say: The critical period for lasting harm from exposure to depictions of violence is pre-adolescent childhood. ... That's where you go to sleep at night and they drug you and take you somewhere else and then they bring you back and put you in bed and, when you wake up, you think that it's a bad dream" (Bean). ... Carpenter also said to the court that Hinckle had already started a descent "progress" into schizophrenia when he was a teenager (Noe). ...

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Kreiner goes on to state that even television cartoons depict violence in a humorous way and that the consequences of such acts are never addressed realistically, in that characters often return to action in the next episode. ... Teenagers wanting acceptance and tolerance from their peers find those qualities in gang membership. ... Even though teenagers have to deal with these societal problems and the difficulties associated with adolescence, the majority of students are not inclined to bring guns and weapons into our schools. ... This would be one reason perhaps why teenagers react viole...

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However if a teenager tries to commit murder we charge them as an adult. ... I later moved to Farmington, MI where I resided from an early on teenager until my adulthood. ... I was still going back and forth from Farmington the Highland Park my first home. ... They left home to go to school to continue the day as normal. ... Their environment had become who they were and it's going to affect them for the rest of their lives. ...

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That makes some children refuse to go to school, which makes some children not wanting to go to school (Stark 49). ... Some depressed teenagers also have eating disorders. Seeing violence all the time at home can make some teenagers violent. ... They go around and pick on young children in the neighborhood. ... Wherever they go, they just stay silent. ...

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Teenagers are less mature and, therefore, less at fault than adults who commit similar acts but have no such explanation for their conduct. ... Then how do we have the right to tell a child we are going to give him or her the capital punishment for not being raised properly. ... Sentence him to the death penalty sound better to the legal system but, kill him is exactly what we are telling the boy that we are going to do. We are going to murder a child for being raised in a house that was never a home. We are going to murder a child because he was brought up in a house that th...

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"Pre-teens and teens today are expected to be fully aware of their actions and the responsibilities that go with them, yet they are not entrusted with many rights" (Mark P. 2). ... "There is evidence that teenagers (and even more so pre-teenagers ) are less capable than adults of thinking through the consequences of their actions" (Kids and Crime 4)... "Just as I have to wait until I"m eighteen to go to the voting booth, the court and its prosecutor should wait until offenders are eighteen before they are tried as adults. ...

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He's just like any average teenager in high school; he can't really define himself in terms of who he wants to be when he grows up. ... It was going to come sooner or later. ... What was going through his mind I thought? ...

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The children have no source of income and I don't think tax payers should pay for some rebelling teenager, leaving no one except for parents or legal guardians. ... I think there is no way the parents should go to jail or even be sued for their son or daughter's actions. ... If they"re not allowed to be friends with someone, a rebellious teenager would just want to become better friends. ...

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The idea of uniforms being mandatory in public schools has became a popular topic among school boards as well as parents and students all over the United States. There have been quite a few public schools who have started the enforcement of school uniforms as an experiment. It is believed that ...

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A group of teenagers pulled up and they were playing loud music. Michael Dunn felt threatened and he started arguing with the teenagers to turn down their music. The teens refused to turn the music down and he ended up shooting at the car and murdering one of the teenagers, Jordan Davis. Michael Dunn said that the teenagers threatened to shoot him and that he saw a gun in the front seat. ... Going further along in these studies there are some effects based on race in sentencing. ...

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I have a lot of experiences from playing games with many types of friends: kids, teenagers, and adults. ... The video game itself doesn't have the "violent factor" that is going to influence people's mind. ... I agree with the author a lot; why would I want to go outside and commit crimes with my violence while I can stay home, eat, play and sleep? ... Six years ago in District 1, Saigon City, two groups of teenagers met up at an abandoned yard and had a fierce clash against each other. ... If one can't adapt to it, then there are other things to do like go to school....

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Compulsory community service is an effective way to deal with young offenders when they commit the property crimes How much more of taxpayers must spend to make these young teenager's lives such that they can become model citizens when they returned to the society. ... Nowadays, there are lots of gangs going on in the jail now and the young offenders can get threatened, beat up or even killed. ... For instance, if every young offenders are sentencing to jail for a standard sentence of sixty or ninety days, then who is going to pay the cost of building extra cells, foods, security guar...

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These are people whom you would normally hang out with on weekends, or go to the movies with, but in some cases these are the people who get you in the most trouble. As a teenager, I know first hand of the pressures that a kid can receive from his friends. ... Parents don't fear that their teenage children are going to run out and shoot someone because they saw it on TV or did it in a video game. ...

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