Many offenders commit more crimes after serving their first punishment. Why is this happening, and measures can be taken to tackle the problem?
It is very common for first-time prisoners to go on and commit further crimes, after being released from jail. I think it is mostly caused by collapse of the non-criminal support system and exposure to antisocial behaviour while in a rehabilitation facility and could be prevented by sentencing to prison only as a last resort.
While in the penitentiary facility, first-time offenders are often influenced by more experienced criminals, they might even see them as new role models. After the sentence is finished, ex-convicts often struggle to rebuild previous, non-criminal relationships. What exacerbates already difficult situation, is a fact, that many companies do not wish to employ an ex-offender. Nowadays, as many as 60% of all job vacancies require a DBS check or a statement of not having a criminal record. All these factors play a great role in person's ability to adapt to post-prison reality. Lack of this adaptation makes committing further offences more common.
Luckily there are ways to tackle the issue, but the approach must be multifaceted, with the close cooperation of all agencies involved in process of social rehabilitation. The prison sentence should only be used as a last resort, to avoid a person's exposure to further criminal behaviour. The solution could be rehabilitation centres, offering job apprenticeships, training and education. The aim must be to remove the roots of criminal behaviour and to change a person's antisocial environment, maybe even by relocating, while strengthening positive relationships. Recent police statistics show that ex-convicts were much less likely to re-offend if they had a full time, permanent job.
In conclusion, the best way to cut down a number of subsequent crimes, is to give an ex-offender a place in the community, ideally a stable job and nurturing environment, while applying a prison sentence only, if everything else fails. I strongly believe that this approach could reduce the criminal influences common in traditional penitentiary facilities and therefore the likelihood of subsequent offences.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 184, Rule ID: MASS_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error - use third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'sentences'.
Suggestion: sentences
...ss of social rehabilitation. The prison sentence should only be used as a last resort, t...
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Line 5, column 242, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'persons'' or 'person's'?
Suggestion: persons'; person's
...ly be used as a last resort, to avoid a persons exposure to further criminal behaviour....
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Line 5, column 390, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...pprenticeships, training and education. The aim must be to remove the roots of crim...
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Line 5, column 462, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a person' or simply 'persons'?
Suggestion: a person; persons
...ots of criminal behaviour and to change a persons antisocial environment, maybe even by r...
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Line 5, column 662, Rule ID: EN_COMPOUNDS
Message: This word is normally spelled as one.
Suggestion: fulltime
... less likely to re-offend if they had a full time, permanent job. In conclusion, the ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, may, so, then, therefore, while, i think, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 7.30460921844 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 24.0651302605 54% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 41.998997996 98% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 8.3376753507 168% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1765.0 1615.20841683 109% => OK
No of words: 324.0 315.596192385 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.4475308642 5.12529762239 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24264068712 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.27638103509 2.80592935109 117% => OK
Unique words: 195.0 176.041082164 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.601851851852 0.561755894193 107% => OK
syllable_count: 564.3 506.74238477 111% => 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: 7.0 2.10420841683 333% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.0863923035 49.4020404114 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.666666667 106.682146367 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.6 20.7667163134 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.73333333333 7.06120827912 67% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.01903807615 100% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 3.9879759519 201% => 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: 0.139572804444 0.244688304435 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0479447190534 0.084324248473 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0383423621095 0.0667982634062 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0838286923907 0.151304729494 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0321290290811 0.056905535591 56% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 13.0946893788 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 50.2224549098 83% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.33 12.4159519038 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.55 8.58950901804 111% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 78.4519038076 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => 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: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 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.