Assignment 1: LASA 2: Final Argument Paper
eliahtavah
tavai_e_m3_a2_revised.ppt
*
- Curfew: a regulation, often by law, requiring people to stay indoors between particular hours, mostly at night.
- It is mostly done for security reasons (Deza & Litwok, 2016).
- Restricted Driving Privileges: an order that denies someone a chance to drive based on various reasons such as age, traffic offenses, or health and physical conditions (Ashworth & Horder, 2013).
*
- Exposing people under 18 to legal curfews reduces juvenile crime.
- Legal curfews for people under 18 is important in the maintenance of law and order.
- Restricted driving for the people under 18 reduces accidents in our roads.
- Restricted driving privileges contravenes the rights of the youths.
*
Exposing people under 18 to legal curfews reduces juvenile crime.
Curfew keep the youth indoors and from roaming in the street at night, away from the exposure to criminal activities that happen at night and that they can be exposed to (Gray, 2014).
Youths are vulnerable to crime, keeping them indoors at night ensures that they do not interact with criminals.
Most joints that youths prefers are roamed by hard core criminals at night, making curfews a viable option.
*
Legal curfews for people under 18 is important in the maintenance of law and order.
Even though curfews are un popular among the youths, they are a popular tool for maintaining law and order.
A curfew gives the parent the legal right to monitor and restrict their children’s movements.
This restriction becomes easier when there is a particular law obligating all the youths to be at home at a particular time.
Violation of curfews is a state offense for juveniles, making them abide by it.
This can make the offender to be fined or to be charged with misdemeanor.
*
Restricted driving for the people under 18 reduces accidents in our roads.
From research carried out, outcomes show that one of the leading unintended cause of deaths in teens between ages of 18 to 25 in the United States is motor vehicle crashes (Gray, 2014).
Their driving should therefore be restricted to protect their lives.
Youths are reckless, ambitious, and like adventure; making them irresponsible drivers because they like the thrill that comes with reckless and ambitious driving (Gray, 2014).
- Most youth below the age of 18 are not mature enough to take conscientiousness for their actions, and should not be permitted to drive under any circumstance.
*
Restricted driving privileges contravenes the rights of the youths.
In answering whether or not driving privileges of youths should be limited, it is vital to ask the question of whether or not the teens are mature enough to be permitted to drive (Zimring, 2013).
Furthermore, who will instruct the teen to drive and whether a licensed grown-up will have time to oversee the teenager driving.
- It is true that accidents area caused by both the grown-ups and the youth, however, by limiting the driving age; it is paramount to weigh the advantages and disadvantages that this would bring to our society.
- Critics of this argument posit that getting a driving license at the age of 18 is way too late and that the present world needs vibrant and accountable people (Ashworth & Horder, 2013). According to them, age does not make one accountable, rather conviction and responsibilities given to an individual.
- Additionally, according to critics limiting the teenagers driving privileges is giving the parent the burden of unnecessary duties of moving their teenagers to different places.
*
Exposing the Youths to Curfews
- The evidence supporting the conclusion is based on security concerns.
- The role of the parent is also given weight in as far as monitoring the activities of the youth under the age of 18 is concerned.
- The safety of the youth is a concern of both the government and the parents.
*
Restricted Driving Privileges
Legal issues are evident in these arguments.
The reality of the changing world where children learn a lot faster is also used to support allowing the teens to drive.
Fear in the adults concerning their protective nature, makes them believe that one is not ready to drive before passing 18 years.
*
Ashworth, A., & Horder, J. (2013). Principles of criminal law. Oxford University Press.
Deza, M., & Litwok, D. (2016). Do Nighttime Driving Restrictions Reduce Criminal Participation Among Teenagers? Evidence From Graduated Driver Licensing. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.
Gray, K. E. (2014). Wrong Way: Why Labeling Young Drivers Presents a Misguided Approach in the Improvement of Graduated Driver's License Programs. Drexel L. Rev., 7, 127.
Zimring, F. E. (2013). The changing legal world of adolescence (Vol. 19). Quid Pro Books.
*
