Some people think that not all criminals should be kept in prison. Some criminals should do unpaid work to help other people in the community. Do you agree or disagree with the statement?

Much attention has been drawn to a notion which claims not every people who committed a crime should go to jail, but rather do community works. This essay also believes that unpaid community service can be a suitable form of punishment. Not only will the criminals are forced to pay for what they did, but the society is benefited as well.

In terms of punishing effects, making criminals serve the community works under some circumstances. Unless what the criminals did was something serious like murder or burglary, there is no need to sentence them to jail time or capital punishment. Apart from that, instead of keeping them behind the bars for a certain period of time, law enforcers can order the criminals to work outside during the same amount of time, but under close supervision. This is because the time which the criminals must undergo is the same for both scenarios. Moreover, extra energy has to be used by them for productive purposes, unlike the case where they just sit and sleep in a cell all day.

Another angle to look at unpaid work as punishment is from the viewpoint of the community. There are certain types of job which do not seem appealing although its purpose serves humanity a lot. For example, hard-labor tasks like cleaning up garbage, repainting walls and even planting trees are among works that are not considered a profession but at the same time are needed by the public. The government, therefore, can punish criminals by channeling their human workforce into beneficial public renovations. Still, some might argue this option of punishment seems kind and soft, this is not the case. Even though the criminals are not put in prison, their criminal record documents will follow them for the rest of their life whether it is asking for a job or taking out a loan from a bank.

In conclusion, commanding criminal offenders to serve their society is neither soft nor harsh, but a peculiar mixture of the two. As long as the punishment fits the crime, forcing people to do unpaid manual work is equivalent to another form of beeing kept capture.

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Average: 8.4 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 319, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...ping them behind the bars for a certain period of time, law enforcers can order the criminals ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, look, moreover, so, still, therefore, well, apart from, as to, for example, in conclusion

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 13.1623246493 144% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 41.998997996 107% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1729.0 1615.20841683 107% => OK
No of words: 358.0 315.596192385 113% => OK
Chars per words: 4.82960893855 5.12529762239 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34981470047 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54792857324 2.80592935109 91% => OK
Unique words: 209.0 176.041082164 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.583798882682 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 535.5 506.74238477 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 0.809619238477 494% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.2033579634 49.4020404114 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.0625 106.682146367 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.375 20.7667163134 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.5 7.06120827912 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => 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 : 13.0 3.9879759519 326% => 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: 0.234776800891 0.244688304435 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0712297270093 0.084324248473 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0430709954075 0.0667982634062 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.142295899285 0.151304729494 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0183698608913 0.056905535591 32% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 13.0946893788 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 50.2224549098 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.03 12.4159519038 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.99 8.58950901804 93% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 78.4519038076 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => 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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