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.

Although some people contend that longer imprisonment may act as much of a deterrent against reoffending crimes, there are some vociferous opponents claiming that other justified punishments should be meted out by the justice system. I will discuss valid opinions on both sides of the argument in this essay.

Admittedly, one explanation to justify the former view would be that in terms of serious crimes such as persistent and sex offenders and murders, prison is a necessary evil, hopefully not allowing convicted criminals to roam free in the society which ensures a great public safety. Another important point is that an astonishing number of crimes have being committed by those who are suffering from psychiatric disorders like antisocial personality, psychosis and etc. Therefore, a light sentence would not act as a deterrent factor, requiring extreme measures to prevent from social crimes.

With regards to the above argument, some experts subscribe to the view that would-be criminals should repay the victims and society in a suitable manner. A number of viable propositions should be provided by the criminal justice system to rehabilitate some petty criminals more effectively. An important consideration to support this view would be that those who commit much less personal crimes like fraud and theft should not be rubbing shoulders with murders and rapists. The proof of this might be community service handed out for tax evasion or burglary. Equally, regarding the juvenile delinquency, the best remedy could be possibly imposing more flexible sentences rather than life imprisonment and capital punishment due to dire consequences they are subject to.

All things considered, from my perspective, while more stiff sentences should be imposed to hardened criminals such as murders and vandals, some conditioning method such as community service could be judged more successful than long prison term.

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Average: 9.5 (3 votes)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 461, Rule ID: AND_ETC[1]
Message: Use simply 'etc.'.
Suggestion: etc.
... like antisocial personality, psychosis and etc. Therefore, a light sentence would not a...
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Line 5, column 133, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "in a suitable manner" with adverb for "suitable"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
...ls should repay the victims and society in a suitable manner. A number of viable propositions should...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
if, may, regarding, so, therefore, while, such as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 13.1623246493 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 7.85571142285 178% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 14.0 24.0651302605 58% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 41.998997996 86% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1632.0 1615.20841683 101% => OK
No of words: 298.0 315.596192385 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.47651006711 5.12529762239 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15483772266 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8433890065 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 188.0 176.041082164 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.630872483221 0.561755894193 112% => OK
syllable_count: 507.6 506.74238477 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 5.43587174349 18% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 16.0721442886 68% => 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: 27.0 20.2975951904 133% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 63.372309306 49.4020404114 128% => OK
Chars per sentence: 148.363636364 106.682146367 139% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.0909090909 20.7667163134 130% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.45454545455 7.06120827912 63% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
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: 0.0976050710401 0.244688304435 40% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0405739868316 0.084324248473 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.029545574191 0.0667982634062 44% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0655581727973 0.151304729494 43% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0306046415905 0.056905535591 54% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.9 13.0946893788 137% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 35.61 50.2224549098 71% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 11.3001002004 133% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.8 12.4159519038 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.43 8.58950901804 121% => OK
difficult_words: 103.0 78.4519038076 131% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 9.78957915832 148% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.1190380762 126% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.7795591182 139% => 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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