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

Nowadays, the crime rate in some countries has significantly increased that those government bodies search for new ways to minimize the means of an individual becoming a criminal. The reasons could vary why would an individual be convinced of committing a crime.

This

essay discusses both aspects of longer

prison

sentences and

also

another alternative method of which have demonstrated a decreasing

number

of crimes.

Firstly

, a recent newspaper article published that, the sum of people who are sentenced for longer

prison

years

is considerably high compared to the past

years

, due to the high penitentiary population, the current aim for governing bodies is to introduce programs to reduce the

number

of prisoners who were sentenced for long

years

.

For example

, the former president of Sri Lanka announced the presidential pardon for a group of individuals and released them who were imprisoned for crimes which were considered to be small.

This

clearly indicates why imprisoning somebody for longer

prison

years

is not an effective way.

Secondly

, it is necessary to identify what causes a person to commit a crime. On one hand, one reason could be that they might be addicted to drugs or

on the other hand

, that individual could be absolutely poor. To illustrate, the government has instituted a

number

of rehabilitation centres where drug addicts could be rehabilitated.

This

is an effective way to correct a person

instead

of sentencing them to jail for

years

.

Although

people have different views about imprisonment, to conclude, I strongly believe that sentencing a person to a longer

prison

period would just not reduce the

number

of crimes that could occur. Rather than that, governments could initiate more correction centres in order to educate and release who was convicted in an effective method.