Some people think that the best way to reduce crime is to give longer prioson sentences. Others,however, believe there are better alternative ways of reducing crime. Discuss both views and give your opinion

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crime
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considerably prevalent in the world. It is
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long history of convention
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the
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crime
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is occurred
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, the criminal lost their freedom.
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there is various controversy
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this
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automatic
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that criminal receives. There are tremendous
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of how the criminal could be punished
instead
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of receiving
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. It is highly agreeable that the criminal must be penalized corresponding
their
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offense
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. The current law provides mostly
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which direct to the jail unless
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offender
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the offender
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commit
serious
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a serious
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felony. There are tremendous
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crime
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that they got punished
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the result of
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is very uniform.
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difference is the period that
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offender
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the offender
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stay
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in
the
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jail. The noticeable problem is that the weight of
criminal
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criminals
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is not measurable.
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, the economic criminal and murder
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not comparable
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sometimes the
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of murder and economic criminal receive
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a similar
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sentence
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. In order to offer
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sentence
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, the corresponding result
such
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as
same
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amount of
penalty
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to
economic
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the economic
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offender
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and
death
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penalty
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to
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the killer
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is supposed to be unbiased Meanwhile there is
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argument that imprisoning is not effective. When it comes to
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offender
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offenders
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we
are easily consider
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that they are fairly useless to be
one
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of
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member
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members
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of society. The purpose of
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is basically to reform
criminal
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criminals
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which
do
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not
weight
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weigh
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on
punishment
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.
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conventional method
is
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evaluated
from
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some people that the
victim
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or family of
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victim
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the victim
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is not considered Especially in South Korea where the
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is fairly light than
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other country
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another country
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this
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criminal considered
punishment
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is way too biased.
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example
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when it comes to the case of murder, the
victim
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of
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crime
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case could not return any of their ordinary life. Meanwhile, the criminal only
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decade
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in
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jail and eventually
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to
back
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their ordinary life. Which directly
imply
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that there is
any
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penalty
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or compensation to
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victim
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the victim
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. To wrap up,
for
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from
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the victim
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victim
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perspective the execution of
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sentence
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the sentence
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is fairly biased
to
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toward
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criminal
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the criminal
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and
this
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punishment
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is not
various
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or specific which is not correctly
aiming
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to
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for
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proper
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a proper
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corresponding
penalty
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. As the above statement mentioned, the conventional
punishment
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is required to change to
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victim based
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legislation rather than
offender
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-centered execution
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