Studies show that many criminals have a low level of education. For this reason, people believe that the best way to reduce crime is to educate people in prison so they can get a job when leave prison. Do you agree or disagree?

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Recently, crime has been increasing out of control. Some hold the idea that in order to deter crimes, criminals should be given proper
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while in prison. Personally, I partly share the same view with
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. It is my belief that nurture, not nature, is responsible for malignant and antisocial behaviours.
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to say, everybody is born with good personalities and what turns some into criminals is parental neglect and lack of
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. Many studies have shown that children who are not supervised by their parents on a regular basis are many times more likely to go off the rails, commit acts of selfishness or to behave aggressively against others.
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rationalizes why I think a good number of prisoners after being released will not repeat their offences if they are given
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an education
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, while being in jail, inmates have plenty of
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which can be misspent.
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, some of them spend their
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on gambling with their
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or accessing materials with objectionable contents.
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, giving them the opportunity to be educated translates to the reduction of
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time, which
can be potentially frittered away or used for malicious purposes.
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, there are objections to
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perspective. Those who oppose claim that the potential program of giving
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to criminals can cost a huge amount of money from the Government budget.
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, considering the
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result, it
can deliver in the long run as far as societal stability is concerned,
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program is not a waste of taxpayers’ money. What has been discussed above has effectively corroborated my view that
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can reduce participation in criminal activities and inmates should receive
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while serving
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