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 views and give your opinion.
A lot of persons accept as true that fixed penalties should be given for variety of crimes. Others, nothwithstanding, opine that circumstances and intent for perpetrating a crime must be taken into cognisance when contemplating punishments to be given. This essay examines both perspectives and shows my personal thoughts on the issue.
Having a fixed penalty for different types of crimes is key to establishing order in the society and a deterrent to criminal minds. When societal punishment is sure for perpetrators of crimes, this will make them think thoroughly about engaging in any type of activities proscribed by societal laws. Invariably, less individuals will engage in crime especially if the penalities are severe. Consequently, peace, stability and harmony will be established in the society, hence a fixed punishment for criminal actions. For instance, According to the 2020 report of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), since January 2020, there have been an 85% drop in crime rate and illegal activities, because of the introduction of the fixed penalty law for different types of crime by the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
It is true crimes are majorly committed with intent. On the other part, it can also be perpetrated without intention or accidentally. For example, an accidental discharge of firearm from a police officer leading to death. For this reason, it is widely believed that the circumstances and motives for committing a crime should be examined thoroughly, not only in assessing a guilty or not guilty verdict but in the deliberation as to the degree of punishment that should be given to the accused. Ultimately, this is seen as a fair process in allocating penalties for each crimes committed because crime actions can take place by mistake and without intent.
In my view, albeit, definate punishments will help in deterring crimes in the society and create order, the circumstances and intent surrounding a criminal offence is absolutely crucial and pertinent in giving out punishments, thus it is regarded a fair process for these variables to be looked at, instead of a mere focus on fixed penalties.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, hence, if, look, so, thus, as to, for example, for instance, in my view, it is true
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 : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 24.0651302605 66% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 41.998997996 117% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.3376753507 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1821.0 1615.20841683 113% => OK
No of words: 348.0 315.596192385 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.23275862069 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31911543099 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.07700929373 2.80592935109 110% => OK
Unique words: 195.0 176.041082164 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.560344827586 0.561755894193 100% => OK
syllable_count: 582.3 506.74238477 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 20.2975951904 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 87.0844066269 49.4020404114 176% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.071428571 106.682146367 122% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.8571428571 20.7667163134 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.71428571429 7.06120827912 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.67935871743 35% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 3.9879759519 251% => 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: 0.470558375532 0.244688304435 192% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.156134704481 0.084324248473 185% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0961402802272 0.0667982634062 144% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.278351272181 0.151304729494 184% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0807815307131 0.056905535591 142% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.6 13.0946893788 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.66 50.2224549098 77% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.3001002004 122% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.35 12.4159519038 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.32 8.58950901804 109% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 78.4519038076 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.1190380762 115% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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