Under British and Australian laws a jury in a criminal case has no access to information about the defendant's past criminal record. This protects the person who is being accused of the crime.
Some lawyers have suggested that this practice should be changed and that a jury should be given all the past facts before they reach their decision about the case.
Do you agree or disagree?
It is believed that under British and Australian law, to guard offenders, the jury is not allowed to know data about the criminal's previous record. However, some people think that they should know all the facts of the defendant's past in order to make better trial decisions. From my opinions, I totally agree with this statement.
To begin with, clemency should be granted to criminals with a clean past and vice versa. In fact, not all criminals are bad because they often have reluctant reasons for their crimes. Therefore knowing the past of criminals in advance helps law enforcers increase or decrease the severity of their punishment. For example, in order to be fairer to prisoners, Russian Law has studied the defendants' past criminal records. As a result, repeat offenders will be punished more severely and those who commit crimes under the influence of circumstances will be mitigated.
Furthermore, the innocent people will be vindicated with a clean past data. It is because there are some criminals who are believed to have committed crimes to protect themselves. For example, a girl commits murder when she is raped, but this is a legitimate act of self-defense that all of us must respond to when in danger. Therefore, we cannot equate her with any other heinous criminal. Besides, considering the patient's medical history also plays an important part in investigating the cause of the cases. As one more instance, many prisoners are believed to have suffered from serious psychological disorders, especially depression. Thus, legislators can better understand their situation to make fair and appropriate judgments.
In conclusion, It is significant for the trial panel to be aware of the prisoners' past status and circumstances. It is suggestible that national legal systems should include provisions for understanding the criminal records of accused persons in order to make reasonable decisions
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
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Line 4, column 280, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ns in order to make reasonable decisions
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, furthermore, however, if, so, therefore, thus, for example, in conclusion, in fact, as a result, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 13.1623246493 129% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 24.0651302605 96% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 41.998997996 114% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1614.0 1615.20841683 100% => OK
No of words: 306.0 315.596192385 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.27450980392 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18244613648 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92114456427 2.80592935109 104% => OK
Unique words: 182.0 176.041082164 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.59477124183 0.561755894193 106% => 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: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 30.0080727316 49.4020404114 61% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.9411764706 106.682146367 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.0 20.7667163134 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.64705882353 7.06120827912 108% => 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 : 10.0 3.9879759519 251% => 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: 0.355503114236 0.244688304435 145% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0996443537334 0.084324248473 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0763865975624 0.0667982634062 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.207530948914 0.151304729494 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0559613681544 0.056905535591 98% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 13.0946893788 95% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 50.2224549098 89% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.99 12.4159519038 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.59 8.58950901804 112% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 78.4519038076 125% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 9.78957915832 77% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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