Present a written argument or case to an educated non-specialist audience on the following topic:
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?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
According to British and Australian laws, the defendant’s past criminal record would be hidden from the jury for the purpose of protecting the accused. Some lawyers believe that the regulation should be changed and propose that a jury should consider all the past records before reaching the verdict. In my opinion, I firmly agree with the idea of the modification of the law since the last judgment would be more precise and this could also become a deterrence for criminals.
The precision of the jury’s final decision is very important because it not only could become a breakthrough in a person’s life, but it also is a representation of the fairness of the jury. Furthermore, considering all the past criminal records before reaching the eventual convict is the best way to increase the accuracy of the judgment. For example, a person who commits a crime for the first time is totally different from a recidivist, because the one who redoes a crime not only commits that illegal act again but also be guilty of looking down on the jury, laws, and punishments. Hence, if the jury were unaware of the past, the same punishment would be launched which absolutely could not become a deterrence for the criminals, and consequently, they could commit that illegal act again and again.
Being knowledgeable about the accused’s past could lead to bias in the final decision of the penalty, but sometimes bias is not a bad thing. It is obvious that if the defendant’s past criminal record was clean or just has some trivial crimes, the bias would not occur, but according to the number of crimes they committed and the seriousness of it, bias absolutely takes place. Once it arises, the final sentences undoubtedly would become heavier and simultaneously, convey implicitly a message that committing a crime in the past could be a stain on your whole life.
In conclusion, this practice should be changed to ensure the fairness of the court.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, first, furthermore, hence, if, look, so, for example, in conclusion, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 13.1623246493 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 7.85571142285 178% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 24.0651302605 75% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 41.998997996 98% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1632.0 1615.20841683 101% => OK
No of words: 329.0 315.596192385 104% => OK
Chars per words: 4.96048632219 5.12529762239 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25891501996 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83081382232 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 176.041082164 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.498480243161 0.561755894193 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 506.7 506.74238477 100% => 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: 6.0 2.52805611222 237% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 0.809619238477 618% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 16.0721442886 68% => 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: 29.0 20.2975951904 143% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 45.540827201 49.4020404114 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 148.363636364 106.682146367 139% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.9090909091 20.7667163134 144% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.72727272727 7.06120827912 138% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
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: 0.144193657095 0.244688304435 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0659156669808 0.084324248473 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0610746959408 0.0667982634062 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0892476960459 0.151304729494 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0510819565956 0.056905535591 90% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.9 13.0946893788 129% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.5 50.2224549098 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.3001002004 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.08 12.4159519038 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.96 8.58950901804 104% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 78.4519038076 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 9.78957915832 133% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 10.1190380762 134% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => 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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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.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, first, furthermore, hence, if, look, so, for example, in conclusion, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 13.1623246493 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 7.85571142285 178% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 24.0651302605 75% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 41.998997996 98% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1632.0 1615.20841683 101% => OK
No of words: 329.0 315.596192385 104% => OK
Chars per words: 4.96048632219 5.12529762239 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25891501996 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83081382232 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 176.041082164 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.498480243161 0.561755894193 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 506.7 506.74238477 100% => 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: 6.0 2.52805611222 237% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 0.809619238477 618% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 16.0721442886 68% => 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: 29.0 20.2975951904 143% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 45.540827201 49.4020404114 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 148.363636364 106.682146367 139% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.9090909091 20.7667163134 144% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.72727272727 7.06120827912 138% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
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: 0.144193657095 0.244688304435 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0659156669808 0.084324248473 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0610746959408 0.0667982634062 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0892476960459 0.151304729494 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0510819565956 0.056905535591 90% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.9 13.0946893788 129% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.5 50.2224549098 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.3001002004 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.08 12.4159519038 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.96 8.58950901804 104% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 78.4519038076 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 9.78957915832 133% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 10.1190380762 134% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => 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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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.