Some people think that the best way to reduce crime is to give longer prison sentences. Others, however, believe that there are better alternative ways of reducing crime. Discuss both views and give your opinion.
The issue of the government imposing lengthy punishments on offenders has heated up in recent years. In my opinion, while many assert this action as an optimum approach to a crime deterrent, there are some alternatives that can promise more satisfying outcomes.
On the one hand, carrying long custodial sentences can play a pivotal role in protecting the well-being of the society and as a comfort to the victim’s family. First, when keeping individuals who committed dreadful crimes in captivity, the authorities can preclude them from contaminating the law-abiding citizens. Take terrorism and serial murder crime as examples, since the perpetrators’ hatred towards the society is deeply ingrained and unbending, it will be a serious threat to the safety of community to let them walk freely without apprehension. Second, in regard of the relatives of the victims, the punishment towards the offenders is a way to make up for their loss and show justice to the sufferers. Lengthy imprisonment is also the legal vengeance in a crime-ridden society.
On the other hand, there are better alternatives to long-time imprisonment that can be put under scrutiny, with formative education being counted as one. By providing ethical practices at early age, the government and schools can help young people distinguish between right and wrong and avoid law violating actions. Not only can the youngsters dodge juvenile delinquency to uphold an ordered society in the near future, they are also able to avoid the hideous and dooming experience of prison which exerts detrimental effect on their mental and physical health. Besides that, since prevention is always better than cure, stricter laws and punitive actions should be enforced to protect the population safety. For example, when traffic laws like speed limits, seat belt laws or drunk driving restrictions are enacted, the number of road accidents occurred in countries like America, Canada or Korea have noticeably decreased. Stringent laws can work as a guidance to curb the citizens’ behaviors.
In conclusion, although protracted imprisonment is perceived as a great way to control wrongdoings among the population, education and stringent law are also some other solutions worthy of consideration.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, first, second, so, well, while, for example, in conclusion, in my opinion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 11.0 24.0651302605 46% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 41.998997996 117% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 8.3376753507 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1927.0 1615.20841683 119% => OK
No of words: 353.0 315.596192385 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.45892351275 5.12529762239 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33454660006 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.0667498591 2.80592935109 109% => OK
Unique words: 226.0 176.041082164 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.640226628895 0.561755894193 114% => OK
syllable_count: 599.4 506.74238477 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 5.43587174349 37% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.10420841683 285% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.76152304609 210% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 20.2975951904 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 51.6428077455 49.4020404114 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 137.642857143 106.682146367 129% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.2142857143 20.7667163134 121% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.64285714286 7.06120827912 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => OK
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: 0.100292128211 0.244688304435 41% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.033318344549 0.084324248473 40% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.031239339283 0.0667982634062 47% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0659000046189 0.151304729494 44% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0197231577517 0.056905535591 35% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.9 13.0946893788 129% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.64 50.2224549098 75% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.3001002004 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.68 12.4159519038 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.42 8.58950901804 121% => OK
difficult_words: 124.0 78.4519038076 158% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.1190380762 119% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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