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 acused of the crime
Some lawyers have suggested that this practice should be changed and that a jury should be given all the pastfacts before they reach their decision about the case.
Do you agree or disagree? Give reasons for your answer
Over the years mankind has been moulding its distinctive culture, moral principles and laws. And nowadays there is a world of difference between the ways people of different countries live, the rules and laws they obey. In particular, the criminal code is usually different in different countries. For instance, unlike other countries’ laws, under British and Australian laws a jury in criminal case has no access to information about the defendant’s past records, as it protects the person being on trial for committing a crime.
Nevertheless, this practice is an issue which frequently generates a great deal of heated debate, with supporters maintaining that it is essential for the jury to reach an impartial verdict, whilst opponents claim that the jury should be given all the facts before reaching their decision about the case.
In the first place, passing sentence to a criminal is a very responsible act. Consequently, the jury should be aware of many facts of the defendant’s life. Furthermore, if the accused is a hardened criminal, he or she should be punished more severely.
Apart from this, according to Chezarer Lombrozo, there are people predisposed to transgression of the law owing to certain biological features. Such people should not be only fined for committing a crime or maybe sentences to several years in prison. On the contrary, they should be treated in special medical institutions. And if the jury is not aware of this fact, the criminal will still constitute a menace to innocent civilians before he or she is caught once more.
For the above-mentioned reasons, therefore, I reckon that the jury should be given all information about the defendant’s criminal record to rule out the possibility of reaching a wrong decision about the case. Of course, the defendants must be protected from being biasedly judged, but it is more important for the jury to be honest and wise enough to judge fairly while being informed of conviction records of the accused.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 10, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'years'' or 'year's'?
Suggestion: years'; year's
Over the years mankind has been moulding its distincti...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, first, furthermore, if, may, nevertheless, so, still, therefore, while, apart from, for instance, i reckon, in particular, of course, on the contrary, in the first place
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 13.1623246493 167% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 24.0651302605 75% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 41.998997996 107% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1692.0 1615.20841683 105% => OK
No of words: 326.0 315.596192385 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.19018404908 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24917287072 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.06349433712 2.80592935109 109% => OK
Unique words: 186.0 176.041082164 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.570552147239 0.561755894193 102% => OK
syllable_count: 527.4 506.74238477 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 9.0 4.76152304609 189% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 70.4566736168 49.4020404114 143% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.857142857 106.682146367 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.2857142857 20.7667163134 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 13.4285714286 7.06120827912 190% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.67935871743 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.9879759519 176% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.434573003869 0.244688304435 178% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.130528313037 0.084324248473 155% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.107792709108 0.0667982634062 161% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.223193920255 0.151304729494 148% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.065472737574 0.056905535591 115% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 13.0946893788 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 50.2224549098 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.12 12.4159519038 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.89 8.58950901804 103% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 78.4519038076 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => 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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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.