“Prison is the only truly effective form of punishment because it separates criminals
from society.” To what extent do you support this view?
You should give reasons for your answer, and include ideas and examples from your own
knowledge and experience.
there is no doubt that we need to find effective forms of punishment for criminals, and also
find ways to protect citizens from the threat of crime. I personally feel that prison is only one of a
range of options we should use, and is not always the most effective.
Firstly, I do not accept that all criminals need to be separated from society. Juvenile and
minor offenders can be punished through fines, community service or other non-custodial means. this
is cheaper than prison and prevents damage to the criminal’s family which in itself could generate
further social problems. Furthermore, by keeping these small-scale criminals in society, we can try to
rehabilitate them, for example through training or education programs. this will help to reduce offending
in the future.
Besides this, if offenders are believed to be a threat to their fellow citizens, there are ways of
containing them such as electronic tagging, curfews or regular reporting to the police. such methods
have been shown to be effective in reducing criminal behavior and are themselves quite a strong
punishment, as they restrict an offender’s freedom greatly. Finally, we should remember that prisons
are to some extent ‘schools of crime’ and in many cases, prisoners end their jail terms as more
capable and determined criminals than when they entered.
Of course, it is true that in certain cases we need to both punish criminals and isolate them
from other people. I recognize that violent or dangerous people need to be imprisoned – yet I believe
this applies to a small minority of instances.
To conclude, I feel that prison is a last resort in cases where there is no alternative. this does
not make it the only effective punishment, but rather the most severe among a variety of possibilities.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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...of punishment for criminals, and also find ways to protect citizens from the threa...
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... separated from society. Juvenile and minor offenders can be punished through fines...
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...y service or other non-custodial means. this is cheaper than prison and prevents d...
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...family which in itself could generate further social problems. Furthermore, by keepin...
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...e criminals in society, we can try to rehabilitate them, for example through training or e...
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...through training or education programs. this will help to reduce offending in the ...
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...s. this will help to reduce offending in the future. Besides this, if offender...
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...ir fellow citizens, there are ways of containing them such as electronic tagging, curfew...
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...ews or regular reporting to the police. such methods have been shown to be effecti...
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...ior and are themselves quite a strong punishment, as they restrict an offender's fr...
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...risoners end their jail terms as more capable and determined criminals than when they...
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...oth punish criminals and isolate them from other people. I recognize that violent ...
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...need to be imprisoned – yet I believe this applies to a small minority of instance...
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...in cases where there is no alternative. this does not make it the only effective p...
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...re there is no alternative. this does not make it the only effective punishment, ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, finally, first, firstly, furthermore, if, so, for example, i feel, no doubt, of course, such as, in many cases, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 13.1623246493 129% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 24.0651302605 141% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 39.0 41.998997996 93% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.3376753507 48% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1558.0 1615.20841683 96% => OK
No of words: 298.0 315.596192385 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.22818791946 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15483772266 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90948112243 2.80592935109 104% => OK
Unique words: 180.0 176.041082164 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.604026845638 0.561755894193 108% => OK
syllable_count: 476.1 506.74238477 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 5.43587174349 202% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 0.809619238477 494% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.5186827875 49.4020404114 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.285714286 106.682146367 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2857142857 20.7667163134 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.1428571429 7.06120827912 144% => OK
Paragraphs: 19.0 4.38176352705 434% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 17.0 5.01903807615 339% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.67935871743 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 3.9879759519 301% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.191400932575 0.244688304435 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0628588033958 0.084324248473 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0360600701953 0.0667982634062 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0542396018448 0.151304729494 36% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0385775676608 0.056905535591 68% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 13.0946893788 105% => 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: 13.05 12.4159519038 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.92 8.58950901804 104% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 78.4519038076 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.