Most people dont know who hoons or gives an imediate opinion that young people or p platers are the only people that do it here are some facts.
Hoons are usually youth or under the age of 25 and mainly male, the majority are male as going fast making smoke and leaving Tyre marks behind exits them study's show that males will hoon when angry/ frustrated with something. Kiel former hoon says ' we do it to release anger we don't want to ruin anything else so we ruin the roads'. In contrast to the popular belief that all hooning offenders are young drivers, almost one quarter of hooning offenders are aged over 25.
STATISTICS
A CARRS-Q investigation of 967 hooning offenders involved in 983 hooning offences during the period 2005-06 2,found that the hooning offenders were primarily:
- young people aged under 25 years
(76.9%) (50.8% were aged 17-20 years)
- Caucasian (90.7%);
- males (97.3%)
in terms of occupation (where known), the most common major codes among hooning offenders were tradespersons and related workers, not working, and labourers and related workers. These three groups accounted for more than 75% of hooning offenders for whom occupation was known.
for more information and facts about hoons and why they hoon follow the links and more information will be revealed!
http://www.carrsq.qut.edu.au/publications/corporate/hooning_fs.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoon
http://www.police.wa.gov.au/antisocialbehaviour/reportinghoons/tabid/1127/default.aspx
Hoons are usually youth or under the age of 25 and mainly male, the majority are male as going fast making smoke and leaving Tyre marks behind exits them study's show that males will hoon when angry/ frustrated with something. Kiel former hoon says ' we do it to release anger we don't want to ruin anything else so we ruin the roads'. In contrast to the popular belief that all hooning offenders are young drivers, almost one quarter of hooning offenders are aged over 25.
STATISTICS
A CARRS-Q investigation of 967 hooning offenders involved in 983 hooning offences during the period 2005-06 2,found that the hooning offenders were primarily:
- young people aged under 25 years
(76.9%) (50.8% were aged 17-20 years)
- Caucasian (90.7%);
- males (97.3%)
in terms of occupation (where known), the most common major codes among hooning offenders were tradespersons and related workers, not working, and labourers and related workers. These three groups accounted for more than 75% of hooning offenders for whom occupation was known.
for more information and facts about hoons and why they hoon follow the links and more information will be revealed!
http://www.carrsq.qut.edu.au/publications/corporate/hooning_fs.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoon
http://www.police.wa.gov.au/antisocialbehaviour/reportinghoons/tabid/1127/default.aspx