Some people feel crime rates are best lowered by increasing prison sentences. Discuss this topic. What are some alternatives to raising prison sentences?
The growth of crime rates is an international issue with which almost all governments around the world are grappling. While many suggest it can be countered by the increasing of prison sentences, I strongly disagree that this approach will lead to lower crime rates. This essay will provide support for this position and also propose some alternative counters to rising crime.
Firstly, links between incarceration rates and crime levels have little empirical support. Moreover, many experts of criminology argue that crime rates correlate to situational factors and are not deterred by increasing the severity of the punishment. For example, crimes punishable by incarceration have risen in recent times; however, crime rates in Russia still remain high. Thus, it becomes quite evident that increased prison sentences do not lower crime rates.
Other methods of decreasing crime such as providing affordable education to people in difficult economic situations, may be more effective. For example, providing affordable education can help improve the employment options of people and decrease the risk of certain segments of society falling into crime. Thus, education for poor people is a real alternative to prison sentences in order to decrease criminal activity.
To sum up, I believe that increasing the duration of prison sentences is an ineffective approach to crime. I recommend governments all over the world experiment with alternatives, such as providing education for people with high risk of criminal behavior, to deal with this.
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Suggestion:
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also, first, firstly, however, if, may, moreover, so, still, thus, while, for example, such as, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 13.1623246493 53% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 10.4138276553 38% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 24.0651302605 54% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 41.998997996 83% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.3376753507 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1320.0 1615.20841683 82% => OK
No of words: 237.0 315.596192385 75% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.56962025316 5.12529762239 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.92362132708 4.20363070211 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86639848501 2.80592935109 102% => OK
Unique words: 137.0 176.041082164 78% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.57805907173 0.561755894193 103% => OK
syllable_count: 419.4 506.74238477 83% => 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
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => 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: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 26.9365251822 49.4020404114 55% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 110.0 106.682146367 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.75 20.7667163134 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.75 7.06120827912 124% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.67935871743 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 3.9879759519 251% => Less 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: 0.316645857644 0.244688304435 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.120973735745 0.084324248473 143% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0695770679638 0.0667982634062 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.185903810534 0.151304729494 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0570491281021 0.056905535591 100% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 13.0946893788 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 35.27 50.2224549098 70% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 11.3001002004 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.03 12.4159519038 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.31 8.58950901804 108% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 78.4519038076 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum 250 words wanted.
Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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