Some people believe that there should be fixed punishments for each type of crime. Others, however, argue that the circumstances of an individual crime, and the motivation for committing it, should always be taken into account when deciding on the punishment.
To keep the fabric of society in order, a strict punitive framework should be applied to maintain social and civil justice. Even though offering some benefits overall, fixed punishment for each crime casts some doubts in the judicial system. In this essay, I will discuss the merits both against and for this highly debated subject.
Fixed penalty has the advantage that it can lead to a decline in serious crimes such as murders or treason. If found guilty in these cases, perpetrators would be sentenced severely regardless of surrounding contexts. Therefore, criminals would certainly think twice before committing these offences. Furthermore, this type of sentencing possibly put a stop to unjust law practicing where an unjust judge holds ultimate power to decide the outcomes of trials. Another advantage of this punitive system is its apparent efficiency in execution whereas an outcome of each crime has been decided beforehand and the judge only needs to announce the verdict accordingly.
On the other side of the argument, human behaviors are strictly attached to circumstances and crimes are no exceptions. Trials’ outcomes, thereupon, should take surrounding contexts into consideration. For example, in two murder cases; while in former crime, the murderer deliberately planned out and in the latter, the offender committed the act accidentally out of defence. With a fixed penalty guideline, those two offences will be trialed and receive the same verdict. This demonstrated a serious flaw in the legal system that fails to protect its people. Hence, it is crucial for judges to consider specific circumstances of each crime before deciding its outcome.
To sum up, there are some merits from both sides of the argument. Mandatory sentencing might be efficient and superior in certain cases. However, a just verdict can only be reached when a judge considers all circumstances surrounding a crime.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, furthermore, hence, however, if, so, therefore, whereas, while, for example, such as, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 24.0651302605 66% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 41.998997996 95% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1631.0 1615.20841683 101% => OK
No of words: 302.0 315.596192385 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.40066225166 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1687104957 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86788039327 2.80592935109 102% => OK
Unique words: 192.0 176.041082164 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.635761589404 0.561755894193 113% => OK
syllable_count: 513.0 506.74238477 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 35.6105423526 49.4020404114 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.9411764706 106.682146367 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.7647058824 20.7667163134 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.35294117647 7.06120827912 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.67935871743 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 3.9879759519 276% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.33173355567 0.244688304435 136% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0897619465976 0.084324248473 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0593610102129 0.0667982634062 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.193653827304 0.151304729494 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0401939773341 0.056905535591 71% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 13.0946893788 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 50.2224549098 91% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.74 12.4159519038 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.13 8.58950901804 118% => OK
difficult_words: 108.0 78.4519038076 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 9.78957915832 77% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.1190380762 87% => 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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