It is thought by some individuals that, the most effective way to alleviate criminal activity is to hand the culprits a longer prison sentence, while others opined that, other measures to reduce crime abound.
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essay will discuss both views and clearly state the reasons why I believe, other productive channels should be considered to ameliorate nefarious acts.
On the one hand, long incarceration ensures that criminals are removed and locked out of the functioning population. Linking Words
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is because, they are housed in maximum facilities, where no interaction with the general population is allowed, and Linking Words
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results in a rather crime-free environment, devoid of these nefarious individuals. Linking Words
For example
, having a burglar committed to at least five years in the penitentiary, would ensure he never tries Linking Words
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, locking up a criminal in maximum prison for an extended period, facilitates his remission, and reduce their propensity to perpetrate Linking Words
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crimes in the future.
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On the other hand
, locking up a wayward bandit in exile, is not enough to curb their criminal intents and latent innocuous behaviour. Conscious effort is needed to rehabilitate and re-orient them, before their incorporation into the society. Linking Words
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, handing prison sentences and making them serve time, would become a wasted attempt to help the populace. Linking Words
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, a study conducted by The American Society of Psychologists, found that, the more rehabilitative effort rather than incarceration, towards a criminal, the more the possibility of reducing their crime threshold. Linking Words
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, the environs benefit a greater deal from re-orientating these folks, than from their imprisonment.
To conclude, while it is important to imprison criminals and, thereby, reducing crimes. It is more beneficial to explore other methods, which include; rehabilitation and reorientation of bandits. Linking Words
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will cause a change in their psyche and decrease their threshold to committing crime, and will lead to a total overhaul of criminality in the society.Linking Words
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