Sending criminals to prison is not the best method of dealing with them. Education and job training are better ways to help them. Do you agree/disagree?

Opinions are divided as to the best way to reduce crime. The traditional solution is to punish the criminals by putting them in prison. Some hold the view that education and job training are the long-term solutions to cut crime. In my opinion, prison is the only answer in a few situations, but in most cases, education, vocational training, and rehabilitation are better.

Prison is the only answer in the case of criminals who are a risk to society, such as murderers. They cannot be made to mix with society. Some people also say that people would not be afraid of committing crimes if fear of imprisonment is not there. But I still feel that in the majority of cases, we can do without prisons.

In traditional prisons, people learn a lot about crime and so when they leave prison they will commit even more crime. In other words, prisons act as universities of crimes. So petty offenders like shoplifters and pick-pockets should be given some vocational training and education. It is a well-known fact that the basic causes of crime are poverty, illiteracy, and unemployment. So, if we provide education and job training then we would be removing the causes of crime. If criminals are rehabilitated by some form of employment then they would certainly not re-offend.

Furthermore, prisons are expensive to maintain. The government can spend that money on other important matters such as education and healthcare. This would ease some burdens from the government’s shoulders. The petty and minor criminals can also be employed in some community service projects after providing some education and vocational training.

In conclusion, I believe that we should hate crime and not the criminal. To fight crime we should focus on the causes of crime. Education and job training help to rehabilitate criminals. So, people who commit less serious crimes should not be sent to prison. The focus should be on reforming them.

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Average: 5.6 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 474, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
... would be removing the causes of crime. If criminals are rehabilitated by some for...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, if, so, still, then, well, as to, in conclusion, such as, in most cases, in my opinion, in other words

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 13.1623246493 144% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 7.85571142285 178% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 24.0651302605 91% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 41.998997996 95% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 8.3376753507 156% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1619.0 1615.20841683 100% => OK
No of words: 321.0 315.596192385 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.04361370717 5.12529762239 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23278547379 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90983409177 2.80592935109 104% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 176.041082164 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.507788161994 0.561755894193 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 506.7 506.74238477 100% => 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: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 0.809619238477 494% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 16.0721442886 143% => OK
Sentence length: 13.0 20.2975951904 64% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 29.0154772596 49.4020404114 59% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 70.3913043478 106.682146367 66% => OK
Words per sentence: 13.9565217391 20.7667163134 67% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.47826086957 7.06120827912 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.67935871743 35% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 14.0 3.9879759519 351% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 3.4128256513 176% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.183417539571 0.244688304435 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0604544851764 0.084324248473 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0593092987195 0.0667982634062 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.11037155182 0.151304729494 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0600786351844 0.056905535591 106% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.3 13.0946893788 71% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.28 50.2224549098 116% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 11.3001002004 74% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.36 12.4159519038 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.77 8.58950901804 90% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 78.4519038076 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 9.78957915832 72% => OK
gunning_fog: 7.2 10.1190380762 71% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.7795591182 74% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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