Under British and Australian laws a jury in a criminal case has no access to information aboutthe defendant’s criminal record. This protects the person who is being accused of the crime.Some lawyers have suggested that this practice should be changed an

I am not very familiar with laws. But I know that a jury can access information about the defendant's past criminal record in criminal case under my country law unlike British and Australian laws. In my opinion, law should allow lawyers to access past medical record.
Once a person committed a crime, the person will not hesitate to repeat it again. I have watched a number of crime movies and learnt that the person who committed one crime tends to repeat the crime with no hesitation. They even improved their criminal skills. The person becomes more expert and repeat the serial crime. Therefore, accessing the past criminal record will aid in judging the defendant in the court. By accessing the past criminal record, it can also be of help in identifying the criminal's pattern in committing crime.
I have seen a classmate who stole things from the classmates. At first, she stole things just for fun. It became a habit for her and expert in stealing things in same pattern. One day, She stole money from the classmate with no hesitation when she she was in financial crisis. From this, I realised once a person committed one crime, there will be repeated crime with same pattern and in more expert way.
While a person can commit crime repeatedly, there are also criminals who have changed after serving their punishment. Those who have learnt their mistakes, changed their lives to become better persons. Therefore, the jury should not prejudge the defendant just by looking at the past criminal record. And also, there are some cases the person committed crimes due to unavoidable situations to protect from self harm. So for the fact that, it is agreeable to protect the past criminal record to prevent from the jury prejudgement, to prevent the defendant's dignity and privacy. However, the jury will never know how the person committed crime in the past without accessing the past criminal record and there will be difficulty in judging the defendant as well. Therefore, British and Australian laws should change the practice by allowing the access of information about the defendant's past medical record. With that, the jury will be able to make right decision in a shorter duration. The jury should also act with no prejudgement after accessing the past criminal record to make correct judgement.

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Average: 7.2 (3 votes)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, look, so, therefore, well, while, in my opinion

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 13.1623246493 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 7.85571142285 165% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 24.0651302605 112% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 41.998997996 140% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1923.0 1615.20841683 119% => OK
No of words: 389.0 315.596192385 123% => OK
Chars per words: 4.94344473008 5.12529762239 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.44106776838 4.20363070211 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.50961368807 2.80592935109 89% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 176.041082164 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.437017994859 0.561755894193 78% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 599.4 506.74238477 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 5.43587174349 202% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 6.0 2.52805611222 237% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => 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: 23.0 16.0721442886 143% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.2975951904 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.918631796 49.4020404114 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 83.6086956522 106.682146367 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.9130434783 20.7667163134 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.39130434783 7.06120827912 48% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.01903807615 120% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 14.0 3.9879759519 351% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.415370481895 0.244688304435 170% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.124569654062 0.084324248473 148% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0857021140017 0.0667982634062 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.253691714491 0.151304729494 168% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.102508312722 0.056905535591 180% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.3 13.0946893788 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 50.2224549098 127% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 11.3001002004 74% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.08 12.4159519038 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.19 8.58950901804 84% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 78.4519038076 87% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 9.78957915832 66% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.1190380762 83% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.7795591182 74% => 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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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.