Youth crime has become a major issue in many cities, with citizens calling for actions and solutions to tackle the problem. In the light of the fact that traditional repressive countermeasures seem to produce little or no effect, some people claim that parents should play a pivotal role. But how exactly? Well, the answer is quite simple: by teaching appropriate parents skills. This essay will examine the pros and cons of this challenging proposal which could represent a decisive step forward in the fight against youth crime.
Just as necessary as finding solutions is understanding the reasons that allow crime to thrive among young people. Poverty, lack of education, illiteracy, violence are all compounding factors that offer fertile terrain for crime organizations that too often profit from these difficult situations to lure teenagers by promising them a world made of money and shining cars. As several studies have shown, traditional punishing measures like imprisonment often fail in their primary goal, so that once out of prison many ex-convicts lacking social or familiar support end up committing the same crimes. So what can be done to prevent youth crime?
Teaching good parents skills to crack down on youth crime might sound a bit unrealistic, since a high percentage of crimes committed by teens go beyond minor offenses: burglary, arson, robbery, murder are not foreign to the young criminals. Could some lessons make our streets safe again? I sincerely doubt, but the proposal is worth a try. Parents are basically the first persons children are exposed to and, as stated before, familiar background is instrumental in developing children behavior. Teens who turn to crime, often come from family where violence supersedes dialogue, where respect for each other does not exist, where ignorance prevails over knowledge. Teaching parenting skills could not be the definitive solution - the problem is far away too complex to be solved with a couple of lessons - but it would certainly represent a valid tool to prevent crime.
Youth crime is relevant issue in many countries. Too little has been done to prevent it, too much has still to be done. If laws, trials, and prisons are necessary when it comes to major crimes, the government should also be aware that all those measures are only short-term solutions. Teaching skill parents can contribute to prevent criminal behavior and should be thus supported. Nobody is sure if this approach will succeed. But one thing is for sure: the longer action is delayed the more dire the consequences will be.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, so, still, thus, well
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 13.1623246493 175% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 7.85571142285 165% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 7.30460921844 178% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 41.998997996 107% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2114.0 1615.20841683 131% => OK
No of words: 418.0 315.596192385 132% => OK
Chars per words: 5.05741626794 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52162009685 4.20363070211 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56198539115 2.80592935109 91% => OK
Unique words: 249.0 176.041082164 141% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.595693779904 0.561755894193 106% => OK
syllable_count: 659.7 506.74238477 130% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 5.43587174349 0% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.76152304609 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 1.0 16.0721442886 6% => 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: 418.0 20.2975951904 2059% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 0.0 49.4020404114 0% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 2114.0 106.682146367 1982% => Less chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 418.0 20.7667163134 2013% => Less words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 43.0 7.06120827912 609% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.01903807615 80% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 0.0 8.67935871743 0% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.202985719217 0.244688304435 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.202985719217 0.084324248473 241% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0667982634062 0% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.12380702277 0.151304729494 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0405612183044 0.056905535591 71% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 211.4 13.0946893788 1614% => Automated_readability_index is high.
flesch_reading_ease: -352.79 50.2224549098 -702% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 0.0 7.44779559118 0% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 166.3 11.3001002004 1472% => Flesch kincaid grade is high.
coleman_liau_index: 13.55 12.4159519038 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 28.34 8.58950901804 330% => Dale chall readability score is high.
difficult_words: 105.0 78.4519038076 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 55.0 9.78957915832 562% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 169.2 10.1190380762 1672% => Gunning_fog is high.
text_standard: 55.0 10.7795591182 510% => The average readability is very high. Good job!
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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