In the modern society, crime is a pervasive problem. When it comes to its prevention, many feel that putting longer prison terms is the solution, while others state that alternative measures, like rehabilitation and vocational training, would ameliorate this issue. This essay examines both views and explains why I am of the belief that programs in prisons could eliminate crime rates.
For many, the solution to crime seems to be simple; lock criminals up for longer. Indeed, longer prison sentences would punish offenders since they would lose their freedom for a lot of time and are separated from their family and friends. Last year in UK, for instance, many people were given a longer prison sentence for rioting, and this punishment deterred the similar behaviour today. In this way, longer life in jail acts as a deterrent to make people think carefully before breaking the law. Clearly, there is some merit in the "longer prison" argument.
Another group, however, feel that extending imprisonment is not the answer, and that other methods would be more effective. Provided that prisons should aim to the rehabilitation of the inmates, so they should receive vocational training during their sentences. In Sweden, for example, where this training was implemented in prisons, the crime rates decreased. This type of measure would improve prisoners' behaviour, and their self-esteem. Obviously, rehabilitated prisoners are less likely to re-offend.
In my opinion, I agree that alternative measures would be more suitable in most situations. If prisons engaged in offenders' education, they would give them the chance to retrain with useful skills which will hopefully ensure them a job after they have served their sentence. Professional programs would be a good example, so that inmates met with tutors to improve their skills connected with an occupation. By doing this, it will help them reintegrate back into society and give them some means of supporting themselves financially. Therefore, if governments implemented educational programs in jails, crime figures would soon drop.
In conclusion, although longer prison terms have a lot of supporters, since they opine that it is the only efficient way to decrease crime, there are others who argue that extended sentences should be replaced by measures focused on recovery. I am of the view that this issue would be tackled effectively through education and training.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 87, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun feel seems to be countable; consider using: 'many feels'.
Suggestion: many feels
...oblem. When it comes to its prevention, many feel that putting longer prison terms is the...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, so, therefore, while, for example, for instance, 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: 16.0 7.85571142285 204% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 7.30460921844 205% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 43.0 24.0651302605 179% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 45.0 41.998997996 107% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 8.3376753507 156% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2066.0 1615.20841683 128% => OK
No of words: 384.0 315.596192385 122% => OK
Chars per words: 5.38020833333 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.4267276788 4.20363070211 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80716604543 2.80592935109 100% => OK
Unique words: 226.0 176.041082164 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.588541666667 0.561755894193 105% => OK
syllable_count: 638.1 506.74238477 126% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 2.10420841683 380% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.76152304609 168% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 16.0721442886 124% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.9292186458 49.4020404114 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.3 106.682146367 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.2 20.7667163134 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.5 7.06120827912 64% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 3.9879759519 251% => 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: 0.216159893568 0.244688304435 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0640381163797 0.084324248473 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.039067907274 0.0667982634062 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.124413966063 0.151304729494 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0392705885099 0.056905535591 69% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 13.0946893788 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 50.2224549098 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.92 12.4159519038 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.06 8.58950901804 105% => OK
difficult_words: 109.0 78.4519038076 139% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => 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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