teen curfews, community and parental involvement in adolescent behaviors regarding the community

Teenagers’ Curfews and Community Involvement
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Introduction
Recently, juvenile curfews have become a popular strategy for controlling juvenile crime. Most people’s opinion is solidly behind the use of curfews, as they believe it will contribute to safer streets. In the same way, many people consider that by controlling the hours youth are allowed to stay in the streets, the streets, and cities will be safer. These laws, restricting the presence of youngsters in the street during specified hours of the day have enjoyed an enormous popularity in the past years. This might have to do with the fact that in the past decade, many things have happened in the country. On the other hand, for others, juvenile curfews represent a simple and effective strategy for curbing potential juvenile offenders (Adams 2004). According to this reasoning, by keeping youngsters off the streets delinquency would diminish. In the same way, curfews are supposed to reinforce positive values and parental responsibility.
Curfews are not a new idea, they have been used throughout the history to control the civil disorder and unrest. For instance, armies implement curfews to control the population. Etymologically, the word curfew comes from the Old French phrase “cuevrefeu”, which means “cover the fire” (Adams, 2004). At that moment, curfew meant to put down the lights, to prevent fires. The first curfew enacted in the United States occurred in Omaha, Neb…