In these years, the society has seen rapid proliferation of different measures aiming to prevent victimization. It
is followed by a protracted debate over its positive and negative impacts. In my opinion, it is a reflection of the
inflated fear of crime, but not of actual levels of crime.
To a larger or lesser extent, the increased presence of anti-crime devices fuels the fear of crime and has a
devastating effect on people's quality of life. Crimes are concentrated in particular areas, but the fear of crime
spreads across the whole community and affects nearly every resident. The most annoying aspect of this trend is
that people's freedom is curtailed (for example, using the stairway of a building less frequently due to the alarm
installed there) and sometimes, people's privacy is invaded (due to the concealed surveillance cameras in
offices). There is little, if any, evidence that the threat people perceive has a real life counterpart.
On the other hand, although some measures are said to deter or stop crime, they too often produce opposite
outcomes. For example, lighting in a dark area may reduce fear but also enable criminals to see their targets
more easily, leading to a high probability of attacks. The benefits of self-protective measures such as gun
ownership and martial arts training are doubtful because nobody can say with certainty that the net effect is to
decrease harm. Most personal defensive devices are either too difficult to use or less effective than expected.
Crime reduction and crime prevention also rely on other approaches rather than on security measures. Criminals
choose their targets based on time and whereabouts. Citizens will be less vulnerable to victimization if they
bypass those places where crimes frequently occur. There is no need for carrying chemical agents for self-defenses.
Many mansions are armed with expensive in-door surveillance systems, but issuing passes to
occupants and tenants and preventing easy access to the building is more effective and economical. In the inner
city, where crimes are epidemic, eliminating the dilapidated buildings used by criminals for hiding or selecting
a target is more useful than requiring all shops and residents nearby to install expensive security system. The
central part of crime prevention is altering the environment, by which the root causes or at least the facilitators
of crime can be eliminated.
As suggested above, it is difficult to measure the effectiveness of anti-crime equipment and users should
examine it regularly. The crime prevention framework should focus on making the environment safe from
crime, reducing the potential for crime in high-risk situations and halting the possibility of future crime.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, may, so, at least, for example, in particular, such as, in my opinion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 13.1623246493 152% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 10.4138276553 211% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 24.0651302605 66% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 41.998997996 133% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 8.3376753507 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2338.0 1615.20841683 145% => OK
No of words: 433.0 315.596192385 137% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.39953810624 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56165014514 4.20363070211 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91450939315 2.80592935109 104% => OK
Unique words: 254.0 176.041082164 144% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.586605080831 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 747.0 506.74238477 147% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 7.0 2.52805611222 277% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 16.0721442886 124% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.8613729866 49.4020404114 109% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.9 106.682146367 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.65 20.7667163134 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.15 7.06120827912 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 26.0 4.38176352705 593% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.67935871743 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 18.0 3.9879759519 451% => 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: 0.240567337684 0.244688304435 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0624138003216 0.084324248473 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0446698951818 0.0667982634062 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0596344850316 0.151304729494 39% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0558779425826 0.056905535591 98% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 13.0946893788 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 50.2224549098 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.04 12.4159519038 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.26 8.58950901804 119% => OK
difficult_words: 153.0 78.4519038076 195% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
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.