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. Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.

There has been long arguments about punishing whether to consider

individual's personal circumstances

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the individual's personal circumstances

and the reasons that offenders committed crimes. Some of people hold the view that punishment should be equal to everyone,

thus

considering every

circumstances

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circumstance

would be unfair.

However

, the other side of people

believe

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believes

that every

factors

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factor

which lead to the felony should be considered. To be honest, I firmly believe ignoring

offender's motivation

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the offender's motivation

and their personal circumstances is absurd as well as highly unfair. A large number of people hold a view that

penalty

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the penalty

should be fixed for each sorts of felony. The is that taking

offender

's personal excuses into account is likely leading to being soft on

crime

.

Also

, they believe having tough days or growing up in

mysfunctional

family cannot be an excuse for

crime

. To illustrate

this

, there a serial killer who committed several murders had grown up in

mysfunctional

family. It does sound awful, but it should not be the reason to reduce his sentence.

Another

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Other

people think that when judge sentence criminal, they should take several causes that influence to the

crime

. Since, the motivation is highly important to decide penalty as well as

offender

's circumstances. I believe when deciding

offender

's punishment, their personal story and lives should be considered.

Thus

, the penalty and rehabilitation could be

decided properly

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properly decided

.

For instance

, a person who did shoplift for a thrill, and the other who did it because of financial difficulty are never be the same. These are absolutely different cases even though they did commit the same felony. To sum up, there has been a controversial issue about whether to regard criminal's motivations and other factors affected to commit

crime

or not. For me, the perspective of taking

crime

motivations and other personal reasons into account is reasonable.