However, to a large extend the figures in the two sources do show that prohibition was not successful. The public were producing more and more alcohol as a result of the restrictions placed on them. Prohibition went against the previously accepted way of life and restricting this only helped to push the production and drinking of alcohol underground. People became very clever at finding ways to obtain recipes for producing their own alcohol and the 25% increase in illegal stills seized by the government proves this. If the police were doing their job properly, the figures should be decreasing not increasing.
It showed you tables with the results for each section of the study. The sections were Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test, external life events, depressive symptoms, posttraumatic stress symptoms, and demographic information. It does not go into detail as to what questions were asked in each section but gives the mean or values obtained for each section broken into several categories. It would have been nice to see what the questions were and compare my answers to the results given in the tables. After reading the article it almost made it sound as if the author thought most of the drinking done by police officers were because of the police culture.
Other countries with low drinking ages do not have major health problems concerning alcohol and their young adults, thus proving alcohol is not necessarily unhealthy for developing young adults. The Federal Government should lower the legal drinking age to eighteen because citizens are treated as adults at eighteen so they are mature enough to vote, get married, go to war, and be prosecuted as adults so they should be able to buy alcohol. The law pushes students to drink in private places to avoid trouble, and with adults non-existent, inexperienced heavy drinking, assault, and sexual misconduct is far more likely to occur. Students find it very hard to get along with college faculty and police officers because of the harsh penalties students receive from them. Among young adults the high drinking age is a very unpopular law, thus faculty and police who are responsible for the enforcement the law become unpopular, creating animosity between students and their officials.
One of those that were not happy were businesses that served or sold alcohol, because more Americans were beginning to drink at home rather than a bar or restaurant their businesses were being affected. There was also controversy about what kind of punishment to give offenders, as far as how much jail time for first, second and third time offenders. While some thought the jail time was excessive, to the survivors of those that had lost their lives in these accidents they did not seem like the punishment was harsh enough. Laws have also implemented that those driving under the influence now get their licenses revoked and pay high fines to have this
Prohibition had not stopped people from drinking; neither will a law stating a legal age limit. Many teens have tried alcohol at least once in their life, even some as young as 5th grade. There is a lot of peer pressure, and the idea of looking and being 'cool' is what makes these teens try alcohol. However, lowering the drinking age to eighteen would decrease that problem, of course it would not stop those under eighteen from drinking, but that can be somewhat controlled by parents and adults in the lives of the youths. If the age limit was lowered the alcohol would no longer be a forbidden, therefore it would not be as appealing as it would normally.
The “Dark Figure of Crime” is the amount of underreported as well as unreported criminal crimes that society does not report to authority. In this case, unreported crimes do not make it to the statistics of official crime. One believes that some people in society are hesitant to report a crime to police for numerous reasons. These reasons can be because of the act of negative criminal behavior from one individual to another. A few common unreported crimes that deal with negative sexual related criminal behavior toward another individual are visible.
The higher alcohol content in hard liquor was more effective for getting drunk yet it also took its toll on the population’s health. Prohibition also created a large amount of bootleggers and moonshiners that were producing home made alcohol that was not always safe to drink. People also tried to get alcohol from sources that were still available and legitimate such as alcohol that was produced for medical, industrial and ceremonial purposes. People even attempted to get alcohol by trying to filter the alcohol out of antifreeze. Many of these homemade alcohols contained much higher percentages of alcohol and they sometimes were unsafe to drink which led to several deaths during the prohibition.
Drinking Age The alcohol drinking age is different in many different parts of the world. With so many different backgrounds and ways of life, people with different cultures have different beliefs on the belief of alcohol usage. Until nineteen eighty-five in the United States of America, the drinking age law was only eighteen. However, the National Government passed a law requiring all states to change the drinking age to twenty-one if they wanted to receive federal highway funds. Many people were against this ruling and still are; however, the rational for the change in age was because of the drunk driving accidents, which teens were normally involved in.
I think this is good because it helps people to understand how much teens really drink. The author gave a lot of statistics that are eye opening and could potentially be a good thing to include in my paper. The author says that alcohol is consumed more by teens that tobacco or illegal drugs are consumed by teens. This article stresses the fact that underage drinking is a serious problem that people always over look. That is why I would use this source, people need to know how much of a problem underage drinking is and we need to make an effort to get it under control.
Pitfalls of teenage Drunk Driving There are several problems in life that seem trivial at first sight, nut turn out to be gigantic in nature when carefully inspected. One such problem is that of drunk driving and especially teenage drunk driving. This habit is partially successful due to our affinity towards alcohol and despite some legislative attempts to ban its usage or at least restrict it; the problem still continues to thrive. The theme of this paper is an analytical review of teenage drunk driving, the statistical significance and pitfalls of the practice. Rationale Before considering the incidence of the problem and why it is on the rise, it is important to consider why teenagers opt for it in the first place.