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
It is true that a fixed punishment could be assigned for all kind of offenders, while some people claim that there should be included several factors ranging from an unintended crime to serious offence to give punishment for criminals. In this essay will be discussed both views and reach a conclusion.
Reducing the rate of crime can be achieved when there is fixed punishment. In other words, punishment will be more objective and not depend on judge’s opinion. It means that the decision in court will be made only according to the law. Secondly, this type of punishment is a more efficient deterrent when people know the exact consequences for crime they commit, so they would be aware of their fate if they attempt to disobey the law. Finally, fixed punishment saves time in court and is more cost effective due to the law which is already included how to punish the offender.
In contrary, it will be fairer for all criminals when there are individual approaches in punishments given. Not all crimes are committed under the same circumstances. Manslaughter, as an example, is person who offends someone with unintended purpose like self-defense and should have lighter punishment comparing to the serial murderer or recidivist who have a long prison record. Furthermore, personal circumstances, as well as extreme poverty and mental health should be considered in order to give a fair punishment to offender.
To sum up, while the same punishment for all criminals significantly prevents crime objectively, the fairness for them cannot be guaranteed by fixed punishment. It is of importance to investigate each circumstance to avoid being unfair for lawbreaker with unconscious intent.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, furthermore, if, second, secondly, so, well, while, kind of, as well as, in other words, it is true, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 13.1623246493 152% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 14.0 24.0651302605 58% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 41.998997996 76% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 8.3376753507 156% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1437.0 1615.20841683 89% => OK
No of words: 275.0 315.596192385 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.22545454545 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07223819929 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.99876338149 2.80592935109 107% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 176.041082164 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.585454545455 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 446.4 506.74238477 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.8376698155 49.4020404114 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.538461538 106.682146367 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.1538461538 20.7667163134 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.15384615385 7.06120827912 130% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.67935871743 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 3.9879759519 251% => 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: 0.445638927761 0.244688304435 182% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.154296146415 0.084324248473 183% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0830380969931 0.0667982634062 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.280785799048 0.151304729494 186% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0332487497143 0.056905535591 58% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 13.0946893788 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 50.2224549098 100% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.05 12.4159519038 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.93 8.58950901804 104% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 78.4519038076 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 9.78957915832 77% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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