Young people who commit crimes should be treated the same way as adults. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Some people believe that juvenile criminals should be punished in the same way as adults. However, I disagree with this point of view because of two main reasons, the first one is that adolescents are not mature enough to comprehend the gravity and consequences of their actions, and the second reason is a higher possibility of the young committing more crimes.
First of all, it is irrefutable that young individuals’ mental capacity is not fully developed to be aware of their actions and negative results. This means young people are more likely to act impulsively and to be easily influenced by their peers and negative environments. For example, a group of children ganged up to beat up one of their classmates because they felt that he was a threat to them. Under the law, this act is attempted murder, but these boys do not know that ganging up to bully someone can lead to their death. Therefore, because of their ignorance, the punishment for the action should be minimal compared to that of an adult who has knowledge to comprehend his action.
The second reason for not applying the same punishment for both young and adult criminals is that juveniles are no doubt impressionable, which explains the possibility of them adopting violent behavior during jail time with dangerous adult criminals. This poses a larger threat to the society once these young offenders are released, since there are chances that they will commit more serious offenses. Take the case of a 16-year-old boy for instance, he was sentenced to two years in prison for burglary and assault. During his incarceration, he learnt new criminal skills and techniques from older inmates. After he was released, he continued to commit more serious crimes and was eventually arrested again and sentenced to life imprisonment.
In conclusion, criminals at young ages should not be treated the same way as mature ones due to the fact that they are not fully aware of the serious consequences and harsh punishment for their offenses, as well as the higher chances of them committing more serious crimes in the future.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, second, so, therefore, well, for example, for instance, in conclusion, no doubt, as well as, first of all, in the same way
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 13.1623246493 160% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 24.0651302605 154% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 46.0 41.998997996 110% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1752.0 1615.20841683 108% => OK
No of words: 351.0 315.596192385 111% => OK
Chars per words: 4.99145299145 5.12529762239 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.32839392791 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75504025967 2.80592935109 98% => OK
Unique words: 182.0 176.041082164 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.518518518519 0.561755894193 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 546.3 506.74238477 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => 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: 27.0 20.2975951904 133% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 63.7994268305 49.4020404114 129% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.769230769 106.682146367 126% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.0 20.7667163134 130% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.3076923077 7.06120827912 160% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 0.0 8.67935871743 0% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 3.9879759519 326% => 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: 0.226089813226 0.244688304435 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0800283969915 0.084324248473 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0689801569659 0.0667982634062 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.150910833793 0.151304729494 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0458883800752 0.056905535591 81% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.6 13.0946893788 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 50.2224549098 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.3001002004 122% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.96 12.4159519038 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.89 8.58950901804 103% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 78.4519038076 111% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 9.78957915832 153% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.1190380762 126% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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