Crime is a deliberate act which breaks the law of the land and results in physical, financial, or psychological harm. While a section of society advocates that increasing the duration of imprisonment could reduce the unlawful acts in a country, others contend that it is more crucial to mitigate the cause of these acts. Even though I personally feel that social conditions that create the catalyst for crime need to be addressed first, still I will discuss both views in this essay.
Many people believe that being ‘tough on crime’ could be a better, plausible solution to curtail these offenses. First of all, they think that increasing the severity of punishments could decrease the tendency for people to commit crimes. According to them, first-time offenders would refrain from indulging in illegal activities, fearing the consequences. In addition to that, if criminals are incarcerated for a longer duration, there would be a substantial decrease in offenders within a city and consequently, a reduction in the number of crimes. Conversely, in the United States of America, even though it has strict and harsh laws in place, the recidivism rate is increasing at an unprecedented phase; thereby increasing the prison population.
Personally, I feel any government must concentrate on eliminating the causes of these illegal acts. In most cases, lawbreakers are from the impoverished section of society. As these people are unable to procure proper education and employment opportunities, they are influenced by these offensive behaviors. In a recent survey by ‘The Guardian’, it was found that almost 40 percent of criminals are homeless, and violated the laws to meet the basic needs of their families. Another crucial factor behind these acts is drug addiction. Indeed, the majority of the issues in India stem from drug and alcohol addiction. Hence, unless these issues are treated, it is inevitable that there would be a surge in crimes.
In conclusion, longer incarcerations cannot yield the expected results, and hence, I feel that the best measure to reduce crime is through the mitigation of its root causes.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, conversely, first, hence, if, so, still, while, i feel, in addition, in conclusion, first of all, in most cases
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 13.1623246493 137% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 24.0651302605 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 47.0 41.998997996 112% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 8.3376753507 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1799.0 1615.20841683 111% => OK
No of words: 341.0 315.596192385 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.27565982405 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29722995808 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96325568207 2.80592935109 106% => OK
Unique words: 198.0 176.041082164 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.58064516129 0.561755894193 103% => OK
syllable_count: 559.8 506.74238477 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.10420841683 285% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.4929769739 49.4020404114 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.4375 106.682146367 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.3125 20.7667163134 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.8125 7.06120827912 111% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.67935871743 35% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 3.9879759519 226% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.135045822013 0.244688304435 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0362070892778 0.084324248473 43% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0427268017489 0.0667982634062 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0895140047017 0.151304729494 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0523578523251 0.056905535591 92% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 13.0946893788 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 50.2224549098 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.34 12.4159519038 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.49 8.58950901804 110% => OK
difficult_words: 104.0 78.4519038076 133% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 9.78957915832 143% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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