Some people think that criminals should be given longer terms in prison, so as to reduce the crime rate. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
It is sometimes argued that in order to cut down on the delinquency rate, offenders should be sentenced to longer imprisonment. I completely disagree with this view, because I consider that doing that does not ensure a crime reduction but it can backfire and create negative impacts on imprisoners and society.
On the one hand, putting criminals in jail longer can expose some unfavourable influences on both convicts and society. Firstly, the offenders can embark a sense of inequality and discontent on the judicial system, because they are not given an appropriate punishment to the seriousness of their crime. it can even encourage revenge when people are discharged from prison. Secondly, the opportunities to rehabilitate ex-offenders become lessened. For instance, when applying for a manual job, they are inclined to be refused, which is because of not only their criminal record but also their age-related decrease in physical strength. Finally, the cost of imprisonment allocated by the government budget will extravagantly escalate. The expense of providing the criminals with food, vocational training or community service activities will go up as their custodial sentence is extended.
On the other hand, the lengthened criminal detention in prison cannot ensure a crime reduction in society. Locking people up for longer can severely server their positive ties with the law-abiding community, namely their job or social relationships. Thus, they are inclined to fall back into to cycle of offending, which ultimately result in an increase in the crime rate. In fact, there are other effective ways in radically reducing crime rather than extended prison sentences. Take the Netherlands, the country that succeeded in lowering their crime rate by showing their favour of tolerance over punishment, as an example. Besides providing prisoners with psychological treatment and educational training, they are applying milder sentencing tariffs, including a maximum sentence of six years for domestic burglary to maximize rehabilitating prospects for convicts when they are released.
In conclusion, the longer jail sentence to obtain a crime reduction cannot be assured, and it can even result in adverse influences on both criminals and the communities.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 304, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: It
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, finally, first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, then, thus, for instance, in conclusion, in fact, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 24.0651302605 100% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 41.998997996 117% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 8.3376753507 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1928.0 1615.20841683 119% => OK
No of words: 347.0 315.596192385 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.55619596542 5.12529762239 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31600926901 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.03323943792 2.80592935109 108% => OK
Unique words: 200.0 176.041082164 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.576368876081 0.561755894193 103% => OK
syllable_count: 619.2 506.74238477 122% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => 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: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.1325886874 49.4020404114 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.5 106.682146367 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.6875 20.7667163134 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.625 7.06120827912 122% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.67935871743 35% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 3.9879759519 301% => 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: 0.205444014486 0.244688304435 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0668613546949 0.084324248473 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0417903034045 0.0667982634062 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.133034001722 0.151304729494 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0195873266488 0.056905535591 34% => 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: 15.6 13.0946893788 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 33.24 50.2224549098 66% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.3001002004 122% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.97 12.4159519038 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.82 8.58950901804 114% => OK
difficult_words: 113.0 78.4519038076 144% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 9.78957915832 148% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => 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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