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.

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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.

It has been controversial whether extending imprisonment is the most effective way to lower the crime rate or there are alternatives to deal with the crime problem. While increasing the time in prison is a great solution, I believe that several solutions could be taken into consideration to reduce crime.

Indeed, putting people behind bars for a longer period can impact directly on the crime rate. Usually, when criminals are released from prisons, they immediately return to commit more crime due to the hardship of finding jobs. Therefore, enforcing extra years in jail restrict the number of criminals in the communities from increasing, which means that this method will affect positively on the crime rate. Additionally, a harsher punishment definitely teaches convicts lessons of receiving heavy consequences after committing any crimes. With the awareness of getting extremely long time in prison, people will have to double check when deciding to take bad actions.

However, increasing the time is not the most effective way. In fact, there are other methods which stop the occurrence of crime significantly in the long term. Firstly, governments should invest more national revenue in the education system. When a large proportion of population is well-educated and filled with civilized thoughts, they are not likely to commit crimes and get themselves into troubles. In order words, such an investment will greatly stop people from taking bad actions. Secondly, public areas should be equipped with surveillance cameras and watched over by more police. This ensures that suspicious strangers and behaviors will be closely observed to prevent any possible crime.

In conclusion, while giving longer prison sentences is one efficient way to reduce crime, I concretely believe that governments should consider greater alternative solutions to tackle the crime issue.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, well, while, in conclusion, in fact

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 10.4138276553 48% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 12.0 24.0651302605 50% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 41.998997996 98% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.3376753507 120% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1597.0 1615.20841683 99% => OK
No of words: 290.0 315.596192385 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.50689655172 5.12529762239 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12666770723 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83947249376 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 182.0 176.041082164 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.627586206897 0.561755894193 112% => OK
syllable_count: 499.5 506.74238477 99% => 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: 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: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.6074258833 49.4020404114 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.466666667 106.682146367 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.3333333333 20.7667163134 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.46666666667 7.06120827912 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 8.67935871743 12% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 3.9879759519 301% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.257383410482 0.244688304435 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0805815052198 0.084324248473 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0870441429288 0.0667982634062 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.192157565623 0.151304729494 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.102955913196 0.056905535591 181% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 13.0946893788 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 50.2224549098 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.68 12.4159519038 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.64 8.58950901804 112% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 78.4519038076 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => 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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