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

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Crime
 rates are increasing nowadays
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 an alarming rate across nations. Some
people
is
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 of the opinion that there should be fixed
punishment
 for each type of
crime
, whereas another group of
people
 believe that
circumstances
 and motivation for committing the
crime
 should be taken into consideration while deciding the
punishment
. Every country
have
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different
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judiciary
system
.
To begin
 with, in a fixed
punishment
system
;
people
 will think or refrain from committing the
crime
 as they have fear in
judiciary
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system
 and so the Law & order implementation will be effective and easy.
Secondly
,
this
 reduces the
crime
 rate as
people
 are aware of the strict
punishment
system
.
Moreover
; in
such
system
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, there is no or very rare chance of criminal to escape and
judiciary
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the judiciary
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system
 is very fast resulting in zero pending cases In a
punishment
system
 where the
circumstances
 and motivation are taken into consideration;
Code
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the Code
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 of ethics of law is maintained and so innocent
people
 will not be punished, even if one criminal escape.
Secondly
, there are two types of crimes: intentional and non-intentional.
For example
, some
people
 have kleptomania which is a mental illness and giving fixed
punishment
 to them will be unfair.
Also
, in tragic cases like rape
incidents
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 the victim will be in a tormented situation and end up doing a
crime
 for
self defence
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self-defence
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. And so looking into
circumstances
 and motivation should always be considered .Innocents do not deserve fixed
punishment
 unlike mentioned before.
Moreover
,
people
 will have faith in
judiciary
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the judiciary
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system
. To conclude, I am of the opinion that looking into the reason and
circumstances
 while deciding a
punishment
 is a fair one as the code of ethics is followed.
However
, the positive sides of
other
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another punishment method
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punishment
 method should
also
 be considered
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