Many people believe that having a fixed punishment for all crimes is more efficient. What are the advantages and disadvantages of having a fixed punishment?
Many individuals assume that determinate sentencing for every type of offences is adequate measure. While others are sure that, it is impractical and has many drawbacks. In this essay, I will discuss negative and positive sides of the argument.
On the one side, a jail term that cannot be changed allows for fair punishment to criminals. It means that convinced criminals would have similar sentences for similar crimes and whether the judge likes the guilty criminal or not, jail time will not depend on the personal preference of the judge. In addition, those who committed a major crime such as murder, torture, kid-napping and felony will not be able to leave a prison prior due date and will be incarcerated till the end of fixed sentence. Thus, victims of these offenders will be able to sleep peacefully being aware that guilty criminals will be punished accordingly.
On the other side, there are negative consequences of determinate sentencing especially if juvenile crime is involved. First, a judge will have less discretion and not be able to take into account mitigating or aggravating circumstances, criminal history, age of an offender, etc. Thus adolescent criminals will be sentenced as same as hard-core offenders. It cannot be viewed as acceptable because criminals are imprisoned not only for them to pay for the crimes they have committed but also to be rehabilitated. In addition, fixed sentences means that the prisoners will stay in jail until the end and it may lead to overcrowded prisons and as a result an increased taxation on their content.
In conclusion, determinate sentencing has merits as well as demerits. However, I think it should be applied only for those offenders who committed a major crime because in this case the measure can be consider as adequate.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...measure can be consider as adequate.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, also, but, first, however, if, may, so, thus, well, while, i think, in addition, in conclusion, such as, as a result, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 13.1623246493 137% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 7.85571142285 191% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 24.0651302605 87% => OK
Preposition: 27.0 41.998997996 64% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1521.0 1615.20841683 94% => OK
No of words: 296.0 315.596192385 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.13851351351 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14784890444 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89572357611 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 166.0 176.041082164 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.560810810811 0.561755894193 100% => OK
syllable_count: 495.9 506.74238477 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.1857488863 49.4020404114 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.642857143 106.682146367 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.1428571429 20.7667163134 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.0714285714 7.06120827912 143% => 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 : 12.0 3.9879759519 301% => 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: 0.145170971503 0.244688304435 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.050779736975 0.084324248473 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0361475073609 0.0667982634062 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0860410033155 0.151304729494 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0350092701878 0.056905535591 62% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 13.0946893788 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 50.2224549098 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.53 12.4159519038 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.95 8.58950901804 104% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 78.4519038076 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 61.797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 Out of 9
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