Some people believe that there should be fixed punishments for each type of crime. Others, however, argue that the circumstances of an individual crime, and the motivation for committing it, should always be taken into account when deciding on the punishment.
Discuss both these views and give your opinion.
In the modern day and age, sentence related to crime is such a controversial issue. While many people believe there should be fixed punishment for each type of crime, others claim that circumstances and motivation should be accounted for when deciding a castigation. In this essay, both views will be examined and I will then give my opinion.
On the one hand, some argue that fixed punishments are vital and essential. The main reason for this belief if those fixed punishments help discourage committing crimes since these punishments are harsh and the culprits are usually behind bars or serve a death penalty; therefore help significantly reducing crime rates. Another reason to support this argument is that processing times of courts and trials will be also declined remarkably since there are pre-defined punishments for each type of crime
On the other hand, people who believe fixed punishments cannot always be applied when deciding on a sentence and circumstances, as well as motivation, should be taken into consideration. This is mainly believed since not all people willingly commit a crime or they are forced to commit that crime. Self-defense, for instance, should not be considered as a crime because the victims just try to protect themselves from the criminal and then commit manslaughter. In this case, people are not sentenced to murder and should be freed with impunity. Another reason for this is that someone who breaks the law, is a psychopath, should be treated in a madhouse instead of serving a harsh sentence in prison.
In conclusion, both sides have their own merits. On balance, I, however, tend to believe that circumstances and motivation for committing a crime are crucial since there are several exceptions for culprits.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, so, then, therefore, well, while, for instance, in conclusion, as well as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 13.1623246493 167% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 41.998997996 67% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.3376753507 144% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1480.0 1615.20841683 92% => OK
No of words: 286.0 315.596192385 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.17482517483 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11236361783 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87681292731 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 155.0 176.041082164 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.541958041958 0.561755894193 96% => OK
syllable_count: 461.7 506.74238477 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 5.43587174349 18% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 87.0339572938 49.4020404114 176% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.333333333 106.682146367 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.8333333333 20.7667163134 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.25 7.06120827912 131% => 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 : 8.0 3.9879759519 201% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.593840201843 0.244688304435 243% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.207710935991 0.084324248473 246% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.177611812605 0.0667982634062 266% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.356019088585 0.151304729494 235% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.114459120747 0.056905535591 201% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 13.0946893788 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 50.2224549098 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.4159519038 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.53 8.58950901804 99% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 78.4519038076 87% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 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.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, so, then, therefore, well, while, for instance, in conclusion, as well as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 13.1623246493 167% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 41.998997996 67% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.3376753507 144% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1480.0 1615.20841683 92% => OK
No of words: 286.0 315.596192385 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.17482517483 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11236361783 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87681292731 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 155.0 176.041082164 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.541958041958 0.561755894193 96% => OK
syllable_count: 461.7 506.74238477 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 5.43587174349 18% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 87.0339572938 49.4020404114 176% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.333333333 106.682146367 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.8333333333 20.7667163134 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.25 7.06120827912 131% => 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 : 8.0 3.9879759519 201% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.593840201843 0.244688304435 243% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.207710935991 0.084324248473 246% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.177611812605 0.0667982634062 266% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.356019088585 0.151304729494 235% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.114459120747 0.056905535591 201% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 13.0946893788 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 50.2224549098 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.4159519038 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.53 8.58950901804 99% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 78.4519038076 87% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 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.