Many criminals commit further crimes as soon as they released from prison. What do you think are the causes of this? What possible solutions can you suggest?

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The identification of main roots and incentives of committing crimes
have always been
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has always been
had always been
a challenging
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issue particularly
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issue, particularly
immediately after releasing from jail. While
relaxation
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the relaxation
of criminal laws can be the major contributing factors to the
repetition
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of criminal activities, it seems to me that the investigation of
socio-economic
involving social as well as economic factors
socioeconomic
background can be beneficial to both the identification of incentives and providing potential solutions to the
issue
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.
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, economic
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conditions, including
prolonged unemployment coupled with social injustice and inequality are likely to give for individuals an incentive to the
repetition
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of law breaking.
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, lack of a proper family life and family breakdown as well as alcohol and drug abuse might be a good excuse for breaking the law for many times. More importantly, being in prison
provide
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provides
an opportunity to gain experience from persistent offenders for those who carried out minor crimes. For one thing, they might be
exposure
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exposed
to blame for being criminal, for another, they are likely unable to be employed for long term after releasing.
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first step
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the first step
a first step
to deal with the
issue
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is to take into account the roots of committing a crime successively. With considering the origin of the
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, a variety of solutions may put forward. Despite toughening related laws, community punishment should be adopted for less serious offenders in order to prevent from
successive occurrence
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the successive occurrence
of criminal actions.
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, more effective programs to re-educate
first
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-time offenders should be designed and run. If equal job opportunities provided for them and income levels increased, they would become reluctant to the
repetition
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of crimes.
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, economic and deterrent measures should be given high priority simultaneously. By way of conclusion,
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there has been a variety of incentives and solutions to the
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issue it
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issue, it
is my personal belief that tackling the issues of the
repetition
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of criminal actions requires a long term plan and cooperation of different kinds of organizations in the society.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • Rehabilitation
  • Reintegrate
  • Social stigma
  • Recidivism
  • Criminal records
  • Ex-offender
  • Associations
  • Comprehensive
  • Workforce
  • Mentoring
  • Incentivize
  • Stigmatize
  • Subsidies
  • Legitimate
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