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Under British and Australian laws a jury in a criminal case has no access to information about the defendant's past criminal record. This protects the person who is being accused of the crime. Some lawyers have suggested that this practice should be changed and that a jury should be given all the past facts before they reach their decision about the case. Do you agree or disagree? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

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Crime
 is increasing day by day, so it becomes necessary to have a good justice system. To improve
this
 system, some lawyers in Australia and British assert that previous criminal records should
also
 be presented in the court,
however
, some lawyers suggest previous records should not be presented.
This
 essay will delve into both vantage points and,
subsequently
, will discuss my own perspective in turns. There are many reasons to not show earlier
crime
 records while judgement.
Firstly
,
decision
Suggestion
the decision
a decision
 can be biased because of the previous experiences. To explain in detail, it is not necessary that a
person
 who did
crime
 before would do it again, but at the time of judgement due to the previous records there is a considerable high possibility that judge's
decision
 has been affected by the criminal past experiences.
Thus
, to provide a neutral judgement, the jury should not be aware about the past crimes.
However
, contenders of
this
 postulate, past records should be presented while
decision
. They said there are several benefits of it.
Firstly
, the judge should know about the whole life of a criminal. As per them, there is a distinct possibility that a
person
 who did
crime
 before, would do it again. Previous
crime
 records can help to get the mindset of an offender,
moreover
, it can help to know about how he performed in previous crimes and that can help to investigate and give a clear
decision
. But sometimes an innocent
person
 can
also
 be punished because of the wrong evidence placed at the
crime
 spot, and these evidences are placed as per the previous crimes which offender performed and that can misguide the judge. In conclusion, it is good to have past records while judgment, but sometimes an innocent
person
 is
also
 charged for the guilty of
crime
 which he has not done, but he was charged due to his previous crimes.
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