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.
Crime is a serious and growing problem in most societies. Although many people believe
that the best way to tackle this is to place people in prison for longer periods, others are of
the opinion that other measures will be more effective.
There are benefits of giving offenders longer prison sentences. Firstly, spending a long time
in prison provides an opportunity for the prison services to rehabilitate a prisoner. For
example, someone who has committed a serious offence such as assault will need a long
time in prison in order to be sure they can be re-educated not to re-offend. In addition to
this, longer prison sentences will act as a deterrent for someone who is thinking of
committing a crime.
However, some people argue that leaving people in prison for a long time means that they
will mix with other criminals and so their character will not improve. One alternative is
community service. This gives an offender the opportunity to give something positive back
to society, and so it may improve their character. Also, the government could focus its
resources on the causes of crime, which would lead to less crime in the future.
In my opinion, it is important to look at alternative methods. Many countries have lengthy
prison sentences, but crime has continued to increase throughout the world, so it is clear
that this is not completely effective. That said, long prison sentences should remain for
those who commit serious crimes such as assault or murder, as justice for the victim and
their family should take priority.
To conclude, there are good arguments for and against long sentences, so governments
must continue to research the various methods of crime reduction to ensure effective
policies are in place.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, look, may, so, in addition, such as, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 7.85571142285 165% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 24.0651302605 87% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 41.998997996 79% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.3376753507 48% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1490.0 1615.20841683 92% => OK
No of words: 290.0 315.596192385 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.13793103448 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12666770723 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65211646799 2.80592935109 95% => OK
Unique words: 162.0 176.041082164 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.558620689655 0.561755894193 99% => OK
syllable_count: 459.0 506.74238477 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.0006632609 49.4020404114 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.428571429 106.682146367 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.7142857143 20.7667163134 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.14285714286 7.06120827912 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 21.0 4.38176352705 479% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => 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: 0.25432550172 0.244688304435 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0941638739325 0.084324248473 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0553208886851 0.0667982634062 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0687166381014 0.151304729494 45% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0577592972056 0.056905535591 102% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 13.0946893788 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 50.2224549098 102% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.53 12.4159519038 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.82 8.58950901804 103% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 78.4519038076 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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