Some people believe that there should be fixed punishment for each type of crime. Others, however, argue that the circumstances for an individual crime, and the motivation for committing it, should always be taken into account while considering the punishment of the crime. Discuss both views and give your own opinion.

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In the
last
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few decades, there has been a significant growth in the field of technology and other sectors, which led to the new
type
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of crimes in the world.
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governments of every country are trying each possible way to reduce the crimes in their country so that the people could be
safer but
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safer, but
fixed
punishment
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for each
type
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of
crime
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is not a solution, we have to find
another
not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied
other
solutions to
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problem. Authorities have to consider the circumstances in which a
crime
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is committed by someone. A
person
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could be a victim or a criminal depending upon the circumstances in which the
crime
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was committed. Sometimes, a
crime
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is committed by a
person
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in self
defense
(military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies
defence
or to save his family members or friends by
a
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an
attacker, who wants to rob them or take advantage of them. In those cases, the
person
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who committed a
crime
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to save his family or friends would be a victim rather than a criminal and in
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the judgement
of
punishment
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for his
crime
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, the circumstances in which the
crime
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was committed should be
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considered
otherwise
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a
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an
innocent
person
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of the
society
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could be
die
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dying
or spend his life in imprisonment
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.
In Britain, the criminal charges against someone is judged by a jury, which is a group of people from the
society
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,
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,
which considers all the conditions like reasons of the
crime
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and the circumstances in which the
crime
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was committed and
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mostly the judgement always favour, which is good for the
society
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. Fixed
punishment
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for each
type
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of
crime
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is not possible in the
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society but
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society, but
it could be possible for certain crimes like stealing, eve teasing etc. The
punishment
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for
this
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type
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of crimes should be fixed irrelevance of the harm to the victim
otherwise
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in
future it
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future, it
could lead to the bigger
crime
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by the same persons, who were not stopped by the authorities or by the people in the societies before.
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,
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,
in my school, a boy
always steal
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always steals
something from the bags of other students, one day he was
catch
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caught
by an another student while stealing and
this
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student reported
this
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incident to his
teacher but
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teacher, but
teacher and authorities took it lightly and so after 10 years, that boy, who was in
habit
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the habit
of stealing was arrested by police in a gang robbery.
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type
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of
crime
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could be stopped, if there would be a fixed
punishment
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for these crimes because people would feel fear of the
punishment
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Although
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fixed
punishment
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is not a solution for each
type
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of
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crime but
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crime, but
there are certain crimes in which fixed
punishment
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could be useful and could help to make the world a better place to live.
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