Some people think that the best way of reducing crime is to give longer prison sentences. Other, however, think that there are other better ways to reduce crime. Discuss both views and give your opinion.

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Some people think that the best way of reducing crime is to give longer prison sentences. Other, however, think that there are other better ways to reduce crime. Discuss both views and give your opinion.

Never before have we witnessed crime developing and diversifying in such intricate ways. Some reckon that lengthening prison sentences is the answer to this phenomenon while others suggest that there are more effective ways to tackle this problem. In my perspective, prolonging prisoners’ sentences may cause certain encumbrances to a nation’s development.

On the one hand, it is incontrovertible that there are some merits regarding to longer prison sentences. First and foremost, it serves as a mean to threaten prisoners who desperately aspire to be free and those who intend to commit crimes. Secondly, only by prolonging their stays in the prison will crime rate be decreased to some extent since most of the criminals are all imprisoned and supervised by wardens and police force.

On the contrary, this method cannot be utilised as a long-termed counter-measure. Firstly, it will dramatically affect many countries’ development, especially their economies since those nations have to spend more money on these criminals’ accommodation. Moreover, there is a possibility that this measure may be counter-effective because those offenders may not be able to rehabilitate due to being segregated from the society for too many years. Instead, setting a more severe law system including corporal and capital punishment is more practical and cost-effective, especially for developing countries. Moreover, forcing these offenders to do community service can help them learn both moral and vocational lessons, enabling them to reform.

From the basis of the afore-mentioned arguments, it can be concluded that lengthening custodial punishment is not a long-termed solution. The government should be more sensible and creative when it comes to devising methods in order to decrease crime rate.

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Average: 7.8 (1 vote)

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 1, Rule ID: ADVERB_WORD_ORDER[1]
Message: The adverb 'Never' is usually not used at the beginning of a sentence.
Never before have we witnessed crime developi...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, if, may, moreover, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, while, on the contrary

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 13.1623246493 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 24.0651302605 104% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 41.998997996 76% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalization wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1550.0 1615.20841683 96% => OK
No of words: 273.0 315.596192385 87% => OK
Chars per words: 5.67765567766 5.12529762239 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.06481385082 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.41183573947 2.80592935109 122% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 176.041082164 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.622710622711 0.561755894193 111% => OK
syllable_count: 496.8 506.74238477 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.384769539078 0% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.0556615725 49.4020404114 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.230769231 106.682146367 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0 20.7667163134 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.38461538462 7.06120827912 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => 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: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.101131693536 0.244688304435 41% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0381580250904 0.084324248473 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0453261981927 0.0667982634062 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0683424536847 0.151304729494 45% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.04992198832 0.056905535591 88% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.8 13.0946893788 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 33.24 50.2224549098 66% => It means the essay is relatively harder to read.
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.3001002004 122% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.66 12.4159519038 126% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.88 8.58950901804 115% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 78.4519038076 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 10.7795591182 148% => 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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