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.

With increasing number of crimes and more people being put into jails, this phenomenon seems to linger on. While some people believe that criminals should be given longer stays in prison, I agree with those who feel that there are other ways how to be punished.

From the Middle Ages, people have been punished by prison sentences. People are given prison sentences based on their crimes, more or less longer. Increasing time which should criminals spend in a jail might warn members of the public to commit crimes, however, prolonging time in a jail may highly affect nation economic. Prisoners are not always forced to work and as a result all expenses followed with their stay in jail are paid by taxpayers. Prolonging prison sentences as a way to learn them a lesson or give a precedent to public will not only funds from government budget from more important projects, but also will lead to the need to build new prisons owning to lack of spare jails for new prisoners.

However, I side with those who believe that there are other ways how to tackle problem of crime. People should be aware of consequences they might focus if they commit crime. During the education schools should educate students how to be a good human and how to live in diverse society. Secondly, criminals should be forced to work in areas where exer effort is necessary. Take mines for example. Instead of putting people into the jail, where they get food three times a day and almost all day relax like on vacation, however, free of charge, people should be allocated to work manually in not really friendly environment. Most importantly, the most serious crime, murder, should be if found guilty punished the same way. Some countries, mostly in the US, implementing this rule for decades and in these states, number of murders dipped to minimum. Not until are people given death punishment if killed someone, will number of murders linger on.

In short, although prolonging prison sentences might have a merits, therefore, on balance, I believe that there are other ways how to reduce crime and punish criminals.

Votes
Average: 7.3 (1 vote)
Essays by the user:

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 135, Rule ID: LESS_COMPARATIVE[1]
Message: Non-standard use of the comparative or superlative. Did you mean 'less long', 'less longe'?
Suggestion: less long; less longe
...entences based on their crimes, more or less longer. Increasing time which should criminals...
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Line 3, column 553, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[3]
Message: The verb 'will' requires base form of the verb: 'fund'
Suggestion: fund
...ive a precedent to public will not only funds from government budget from more import...
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Line 7, column 59, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a merit' or simply 'merits'?
Suggestion: a merit; merits
... prolonging prison sentences might have a merits, therefore, on balance, I believe that ...
^^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, really, second, secondly, so, therefore, while, for example, in short, as a result, more or less

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 13.1623246493 129% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 7.85571142285 191% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 41.998997996 129% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1744.0 1615.20841683 108% => OK
No of words: 358.0 315.596192385 113% => OK
Chars per words: 4.87150837989 5.12529762239 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34981470047 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.39797595747 2.80592935109 85% => OK
Unique words: 197.0 176.041082164 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.550279329609 0.561755894193 98% => OK
syllable_count: 539.1 506.74238477 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: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.958880544 49.4020404114 117% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.588235294 106.682146367 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0588235294 20.7667163134 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.35294117647 7.06120827912 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => 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: 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: 0.218122469175 0.244688304435 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0708757548621 0.084324248473 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0606763726745 0.0667982634062 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.14932491969 0.151304729494 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0326506402082 0.056905535591 57% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 13.0946893788 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 50.2224549098 117% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.3001002004 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.97 12.4159519038 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.47 8.58950901804 99% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 78.4519038076 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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