You should spend about 40 minutes on this task.
Some people believe that there should be a fixed punishment for each type of crime. Others, however, argue that the circumstances of an individual crime, and the motivation for committing it, should always be taken into account when deciding on the punishment.
Discuss both of these two views and give your own opinion.
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
Crime punishments have been a controversial debate for years from the West to the East. While there’s a belief that the same punishments should be put in place for each crime type, other people support considering factors such as personal situations and motives to regulate punishments. This essay will discuss both and offer my view.
There are several benefits of having one punishment. The first is it may make the government’s job easier. By going through the same procedures for each crime category, public officials can save both financial and labor costs. In addition, this way of treating crimes might help to discourage soon-to-be offenders from their acts. For instance, if a serious crime such as heroin trading was paid with life imprisonment or death penalty while robbing was punished by a few months or years behind bars, people might think twice before conducting the bigger act. In brief, a single punishment can bring advantages to the legal administrator while preventing people from planning to do serious offenses.
On the other hand, opponents their arguments. They think that it might be convenient for government workers but it’s highly likely to be seen as unfair and unjust for a great many citizens. The first-time offender could be an example. Furthermore, the psychological effect on future offenders created by fixed punishments happens sometimes. However, it’s extremely hard to measure and in most cases, people conduct crimes due to their inability to control emotions and behaviors. As a result, this subtle benefit could be easily overpowered by offenders’ strong and wrong desires. Besides, individual circumstances such as the living standard and the educational level are important to consider a reduction in charge. Another demonstration is a woman who only finished the 5th grade and she has to take care of sick parents and younger siblings who are at school age. It is understandable to lots of people that her hardships need to be taken into account. Last but not least is the recommendation of understanding someone’s motives before charging them for a crime. Without this, the legal system can become a symbol of heartlessness and inhumaneness. Things need to be put in context since one person’s rightness can be someone else’s wrongness. To sum up, the disadvantages make up for the advantages.
In conclusion, it may help governments in cutting costs and reducing more serious offenses. Despite this, punishments could be harsh so it’s crucial to take extra steps before announcing someone guilty. Personal situations and motivations are the first two that need to be considered. From my perspective, we should not take this lightly even though the process might be time-consuming and expensive because, at the end of the day, it’s someone’s reputation or in some cases, someone’s life.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, first, furthermore, however, if, may, so, while, as to, for instance, in addition, in brief, in conclusion, such as, as a result, in most cases, in some cases, to sum up, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 13.1623246493 175% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 7.85571142285 242% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 19.0 10.4138276553 182% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 24.0651302605 116% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 41.998997996 140% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.3376753507 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2417.0 1615.20841683 150% => OK
No of words: 457.0 315.596192385 145% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.28884026258 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.62358717085 4.20363070211 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.00020508535 2.80592935109 107% => OK
Unique words: 272.0 176.041082164 155% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.595185995624 0.561755894193 106% => OK
syllable_count: 729.9 506.74238477 144% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 5.43587174349 166% => OK
Article: 6.0 2.52805611222 237% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.76152304609 210% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 16.0721442886 162% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 49.0758379432 49.4020404114 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.9615384615 106.682146367 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.5769230769 20.7667163134 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.76923076923 7.06120827912 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 16.0 3.9879759519 401% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.347286586982 0.244688304435 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0783778408367 0.084324248473 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0641257299523 0.0667982634062 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.216250046797 0.151304729494 143% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0629346467423 0.056905535591 111% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 13.0946893788 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 50.2224549098 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.3001002004 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.11 12.4159519038 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.94 8.58950901804 104% => OK
difficult_words: 129.0 78.4519038076 164% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 9.78957915832 66% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.1190380762 87% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => 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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