Young people who commit crimes should be treated in the same as adults who commit crimes. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

People think that criminals who are still under age at the time they commit crimes should be treated like those who are older. In my opinion, I disagree with this idea although all criminals must pay for what they have done.

There are some aspects of young criminals that people should take a closer look. The reasons for under age people to commit crimes are not as intentional as adults. For example, some people have the urge to pick pocket just because they need money for food since they are homeless and have not eaten for several days; or kids steal bicycles because they find them cool and want them badly. In addition, young criminals still do not have the ability to fully control their behaviors. Reports of a few serious murder cases show that young murderers did not think it through at the moment the incidence happened.

While it is true that all crimes must be brought to justice regardless to age, but young criminals should not be treated the same as older ones. Firstly, adults have taken full control of their actions when they commit crimes. That means they intentionally do bad things and have already known the consequences after crimes are committed. In contrast, under age criminals are usually under some pressure that they cannot make right decisions at that very moment. Secondly, by treating young ones with sympathy and forgiveness, we give them an opportunity to redeem themselves and become better men, while adults often decline any education given. For example, a majority of young prisoners have adapted to new lives and most of them can find jobs after getting out of jail. On the contrary, olders criminals tend to commit crimes again soon after they are released.

In conclusion, I believe that young criminals should not be treated the same as older ones.

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Average: 5.6 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, look, second, secondly, so, still, while, for example, in addition, in conclusion, in contrast, in my opinion, it is true, on the contrary

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 : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 24.0651302605 133% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 35.0 41.998997996 83% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.3376753507 36% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1497.0 1615.20841683 93% => OK
No of words: 308.0 315.596192385 98% => OK
Chars per words: 4.86038961039 5.12529762239 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18926351222 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.29566118947 2.80592935109 82% => OK
Unique words: 172.0 176.041082164 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.558441558442 0.561755894193 99% => OK
syllable_count: 466.2 506.74238477 92% => 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: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.167787218 49.4020404114 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.8 106.682146367 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5333333333 20.7667163134 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.6 7.06120827912 150% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.67935871743 35% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 3.9879759519 276% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.285400912358 0.244688304435 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.106471739647 0.084324248473 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0887748484179 0.0667982634062 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.201840549148 0.151304729494 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0565312335883 0.056905535591 99% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 13.0946893788 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 50.2224549098 119% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.3001002004 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.91 12.4159519038 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.86 8.58950901804 92% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 78.4519038076 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => 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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