In some countries, governments are making some criminals do voluntary community work rather than being put in prison.
To what extent do you agree with this?
Depending on the nature of offense committed, governments are reviewing positions which could make offenders carry out tasks of helping their community instead of being locked up behind bars. Personally, I strongly agree that not all misdemeanors deserve sentences that could negatively affects the course of ones’ life.
Firstly, prison isn’t the best reformer especially in societies where different levels of offenders are supposedly rehabilitated together. Having a to put together a juvenile delinquent street side drug dealer and a serial killer in the same cell will not only influence the lesser evil but strong relationships could be formed that can degenerate into an actual life of crime. In a 2001 study carried out by the office of the public defender, Lagos state, it was concluded that 85% of persons classified as small-time offenders are likely to return to jail for more serious offenses. In view of that, what does it profit a government to mete out similar penalties to every offender and increase the crime rate in their country?
Big-time offenders depending on the nature of their crime are still made to carry out community service which most times are known to bring out the humanity in anyone. Community service should be structured to give the feeling of actual penance and that way, criminals will feel a sense of purge on completion. Imagine having to work as an attendant in an out patients department of a community hospital 30 hours a week or serving meals in a homeless shelter. These forced acts of kindness have its way of communicating the position of right and wrong to criminals of which prisons lack the capacity.
In summary, people are pushed to the life of crime for different reasons and not all of them will end up a liability to the system. Rehabilitation programmes are just enough sometimes to put them back on track.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 206, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ing locked up behind bars. Personally, I strongly agree that not all misdemeanors...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, if, so, still, in summary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 24.0651302605 66% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 41.998997996 138% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1568.0 1615.20841683 97% => OK
No of words: 312.0 315.596192385 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.02564102564 5.12529762239 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20279927342 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76765001179 2.80592935109 99% => OK
Unique words: 192.0 176.041082164 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.615384615385 0.561755894193 110% => OK
syllable_count: 500.4 506.74238477 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => 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: 26.0 20.2975951904 128% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 39.6031529328 49.4020404114 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.666666667 106.682146367 122% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.0 20.7667163134 125% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.83333333333 7.06120827912 54% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 8.67935871743 12% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 3.9879759519 226% => 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: 0.117128221187 0.244688304435 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0408270291884 0.084324248473 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0278530437272 0.0667982634062 42% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0652059124828 0.151304729494 43% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0276246316575 0.056905535591 49% => 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: 15.3 13.0946893788 117% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 50.2224549098 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.3001002004 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.19 12.4159519038 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.13 8.58950901804 106% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 78.4519038076 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 9.78957915832 153% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.1190380762 123% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 206, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ing locked up behind bars. Personally, I strongly agree that not all misdemeanors...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, if, so, still, in summary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 24.0651302605 66% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 41.998997996 138% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1568.0 1615.20841683 97% => OK
No of words: 312.0 315.596192385 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.02564102564 5.12529762239 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20279927342 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76765001179 2.80592935109 99% => OK
Unique words: 192.0 176.041082164 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.615384615385 0.561755894193 110% => OK
syllable_count: 500.4 506.74238477 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => 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: 26.0 20.2975951904 128% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 39.6031529328 49.4020404114 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.666666667 106.682146367 122% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.0 20.7667163134 125% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.83333333333 7.06120827912 54% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 8.67935871743 12% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 3.9879759519 226% => 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: 0.117128221187 0.244688304435 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0408270291884 0.084324248473 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0278530437272 0.0667982634062 42% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0652059124828 0.151304729494 43% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0276246316575 0.056905535591 49% => 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: 15.3 13.0946893788 117% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 50.2224549098 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.3001002004 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.19 12.4159519038 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.13 8.58950901804 106% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 78.4519038076 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 9.78957915832 153% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.1190380762 123% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.