There are several elements from the writer that can be identify through the passage

Issue

and the first one would be the issue arises by the writer. In the passage given, the issue that
was arises was whether youth curfews really does work to lower down youth crime rate.
In the passage, it can be seen clearly that the point of view applied by the writer is Point of View
through a first person point of view but in plural form. This can clearly be seen whenever
the writer use the word we to addressed something.
The writer has provided several supporting details that can be identified. Among
them would be when the writer provides facts on the implementation of youth curfew in

Supporting
Details

Philadelphia which states that youth curfews do not work. Facts on the adoption of youth
curfew in Detroit was then arises where the writer use them to support his statement
regarding youth curfew displaced crime from one time of the day to another.
The writer then set out the timeline of facts regarding youth curfews around the 19 th
century. The writer explained and provides facts on each and every set of curfews that were
introduced during those days. As can be seen in page 2, the writer provides the timeline of
facts. However, within the facts given, there are a few supporting details which is statistical
evidence that can be identified such as when the writer provide the number of places which
adopted curfews and also the crime rate during the early 1990s which was the greatest
spike in curfews.
After the writer provide the details regarding the facts and statistical evidence for
the passage, the writer uses the supporting detail of comparing the politicians way with
Mayor Nutters measures on combating juvenile crimes.
Although the passage has a number of supporting details, it does not necessarily
means that all of them are credible and can be relied on. Among them, the idea and the
argument of the details by the writer can clearly be seen as objective as there are a lot of
facts provided by the writer. The number of facts given is adequate enough to support the
writers argument regarding youth curfew do not work to fight youth crime. Based on the
facts and the supporting details given by the writer, it can be considered valid as there are a
few examples of facts and statistical evidence that the writer provides which shows that
youth curfew does not work.

Evaluation of
supporting
details

However, although there are a lot of supporting details provided, there are only a
few credible supporting details as the writer do not provide the resources or the authority
on some of the supporting details such as the facts of the example of curfews implemented
by some place around 19th century.
The author has made a few assumptions in this article. The first assumptions made

Assumptions

by the author is on paragraph 6 where he states that youth curfew worked but it probably
displaced crime from one part of the city and one time of the day to another. This is
regarded as an assumption due to the absence of evidence to support it with and he even
uses the word probably which clearly shows that it is a mere assumption.
Second example of an assumption made by the author is when he states that
curfews would improve individual lives even as they protected the social order. It is clearly
an assumption due to the lack of evidence such as experts testimony, statistics or research
findings to support it with.
In this article the author generally appears to be deductive in his reasoning, as he
provides general statements then followed by specifics statements to support it. For

Deductive
reasoning

example, in paragraph VI the author starts by stating that youth curfew does not work. The
general statement is then followed by further specific statements of when curfew is adopted
in Detroit and the statistics report in percentages on juvenile crime during curfew hours and
non-curfew hours.
Reading through the article we could identify the authors purpose which that he is
condemning the idea of curfew to be imposed on youngsters based on the reason that it will

Authors
Purpose

curb criminal offences among youth.

We could identify through this article that the authors tone is rather critical due to
his statements that disapproves of youth curfew and he further criticizes the law of youth

Authors
Tone

curfew.
The authors intended audience is pointing towards the mayors as in the last
paragraph he writes that he hope the mayor could tell the difference between good politics
and good policy.

Intended
Audience