Under British and Australian laws a jury in a criminal case has no access to information about the defendants' past criminal record. This protects the person who is being accused of the crime.
Some lawyers have suggested that this practice should be changed and that a jury should be given all the past facts before they reach their decision about the case.
Do you agree or disagree? Give reasons for your answer.
In some countries such as UK and Australia, juries cannot get information about the previous life of offender who sue for a case, but some attorneys believes that this process should be changed and the people who judge criminals have a right to know the background of defendant. I strongly claim that jury should know about the past crimes of criminals to deduce a better judgment, and this might be an advantage for petite offenders.
To begin with, if the member of jury know the older crimes of a defender, they will give more accurate decisions. In other words, a best way of knowing or having an opinion about someone is scrutinizing this person past acts and behaviours. For example, according to the FBI reports, psychopathic criminals commit crimes repeatedly, so that if the jury know the offenders who have psychopathic behaviours, they may punish offenders to prevent new crimes. Hence, knowing offenders past may facilitate the judgment of the court.
Furthermore, it is possible that If jury members know much more about the wrongdoers, this situation can be a positive improvement for these people. To put simply, people charging for a crime that was not actually committed by themselves may defend themselves strongly by declaring their clean background. For instance, in behavioural science, a neat physical appearance, a good accent and friendly behaviours impress people in a positive way. Similarly, if an offender has a clean past facts, this condition may affect jury boards positively. Thus, being clean history may be an advantage for offenders.
To conclude, Both in Britain and Australia, jury have not any idea about the previous life of criminals, so a group of lawyers argues that this condition should be altered. In my opinion, the alteration about issue may help jury members for their decision and defendants as well.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, furthermore, hence, if, may, similarly, so, thus, well, for example, for instance, such as, in my opinion, in other words, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 13.1623246493 68% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 7.85571142285 165% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 24.0651302605 91% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 41.998997996 83% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.3376753507 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1559.0 1615.20841683 97% => OK
No of words: 304.0 315.596192385 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.12828947368 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17559525986 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82450500346 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 167.0 176.041082164 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.549342105263 0.561755894193 98% => OK
syllable_count: 474.3 506.74238477 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.76152304609 168% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => 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: 56.1264422068 49.4020404114 114% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.923076923 106.682146367 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.3846153846 20.7667163134 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.6153846154 7.06120827912 164% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.01903807615 100% => 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: 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: 0.299845252949 0.244688304435 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.113476080486 0.084324248473 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0772006861583 0.0667982634062 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.202379475546 0.151304729494 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0725438701824 0.056905535591 127% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 13.0946893788 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 50.2224549098 96% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.77 12.4159519038 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.67 8.58950901804 101% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 78.4519038076 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 9.78957915832 133% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 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.