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.

Many individuals argue that the most efficient means of reducing criminality is by imposing longer prison term. Nevertheless, there are people with the opinion that there are other less rigid ways to combat crimes.

Heavy penalty and sending a person to prison for much longer time causes fear to the public or anyone contemplating of committing a crime. These policies have been in practice in a lot of countries including Singapore which in turn reduced the crime rate of the country. It is deemed as one of the safest places in the world. In addition, longer sentences keep the criminals incarcerated for an extended period of time. This leads to decrease number of repetitive offenders from flooding the streets, thus providing a more secure environment.

However, there are alternative ways in keeping the society crime free. One is by the strict implementation of the law by police and other law enforcers. These can be achieved by strengthening policies and boosting security measures in crime infested communities. For instance, installing CCTV cameras in dark alleys and increasing police visibility in these areas, hence, resulting in decrease crime rates. Furthermore, parental supervision is a big factor in the formation of an individual's moral values. With the proper guidance of parents, juvenile delinquency and adult crimes can be reduce. Based on studies conducted with juvenile delinquency, a large number of these offenders are from broken families and was brought up by a single parent or was placed in foster homes.

In conclusion, handing out extended prison sentences will definitely give criminals some trepidation in committing crimes. Nevertheless, I am of the opinion that the strict implementation of the law and the proper guidance of the family will have a better result in providing a perfectly safe environment for everyone in the long run.

Votes
Average: 3.1 (3 votes)

Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
furthermore, hence, however, nevertheless, so, then, thus, for instance, in addition, in conclusion

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 10.0 24.0651302605 42% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 41.998997996 112% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.3376753507 120% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1583.0 1615.20841683 98% => OK
No of words: 300.0 315.596192385 95% => OK
Chars per words: 5.27666666667 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16179145029 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.978924116 2.80592935109 106% => OK
Unique words: 175.0 176.041082164 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.583333333333 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 513.9 506.74238477 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => 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: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.5721219762 49.4020404114 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.9375 106.682146367 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.75 20.7667163134 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.1875 7.06120827912 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.01903807615 120% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.67935871743 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 3.9879759519 251% => 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: 0.213566120874 0.244688304435 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0637416074987 0.084324248473 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0662255335809 0.0667982634062 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.122573067222 0.151304729494 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0326024161566 0.056905535591 57% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 13.0946893788 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 50.2224549098 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.34 12.4159519038 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.37 8.58950901804 109% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 78.4519038076 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => 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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