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

Essay topics:

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

Some argue that longer imprisonment is the key solution to lessen crime, while others are of the opinion that more effective ways can be incorporated to minimize crime. The essay believes that community service and providing training to develop valuable skills is better choice than longer jail punishment. The essay will first discuss why longer imprisonment is not practical solution and secondly, discuss alternative solutions.

To begin with, duration of imprisonment depends on the severity of crime. Therefore, it is not practical to impose longer sentences for minor crimes, such as pick pocketing or breaking a stop light. However, in case of major crimes, such as murder or robbery it justifies the punishment. Another point to consider is the high cost associated to operate prisons, according to The Times each state in the USA spends around $1 billion every year on Jails. Adding more inmates into the jail would increase the functional cost, which is clearly a poor solution for controlling and reducing misdeeds in society.

On the other hand, providing valuable training in prison such as computer programming, basic carpentry skills, and car maintenance skills will help offenders to reintegrate back in society and give them some means of supporting themselves financially. This solution hopefully would also reduce number of re-offenders. Moreover, for minor crimes, penalty such as community service should be given so that both the offender and society get benefitted without involving major resources. For example, The UK government has initiated punishment of cleaning streets if found guilty of breaking a signal. This saves a lot of money and time of policemen in supervision of trivial offenders, which can be directed to focus on reasons of major crimes.

In conclusion, government should consider re-training offenders with valuable skills not only to minimize the number of crimes but also to reduce repeating wrongdoers, instead placing people in prison for longer periods.

Votes
Average: 8.4 (1 vote)

Comments

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, therefore, while, for example, in conclusion, such as, to begin with, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 10.0 24.0651302605 42% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 41.998997996 100% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 8.3376753507 168% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1699.0 1615.20841683 105% => OK
No of words: 312.0 315.596192385 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.44551282051 5.12529762239 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20279927342 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83008101712 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 186.0 176.041082164 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.596153846154 0.561755894193 106% => OK
syllable_count: 526.5 506.74238477 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.8761731998 49.4020404114 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.357142857 106.682146367 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.2857142857 20.7667163134 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.7142857143 7.06120827912 152% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.67935871743 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 3.9879759519 226% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.208368767008 0.244688304435 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0609191757253 0.084324248473 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0576559600325 0.0667982634062 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.124683247437 0.151304729494 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0644510246738 0.056905535591 113% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 13.0946893788 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 50.2224549098 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 11.3001002004 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.63 12.4159519038 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.48 8.58950901804 110% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 78.4519038076 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.7795591182 139% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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