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Some people think that the best way to reduce crime is to give longer prisoner sentence. Others think that there are better alternative ways to reduce crime. Discuss both views and give your opinion your opinion

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Some
people
 think that giving a longer prison sentence is the best way to reduce
crimes
 while others believe that there are other alternative ways to do it.
This
 essay will discuss both views but I disagree with the statement.
To begin
 with, some
people
 think that the best way to reduce
crime
 is giving longer prison punishment which I don'
t
 agree with at all because a person who is doing exactly knows he is going to get punished and still does the
crime
 so increasing punishment might not make any change in the mindset. To cite an example, a person before murder knows exactly he is going to get punished for a long time but still does.
Although
, some small kinds of
crimes
 can definitely decrease I don'
t
 think it could reduce the
crimes
 that much. On the other side, some
people
 think there are other alternative ways to reduce the
crimes
 in which governments can play a huge role by promoting harmony and a peaceful lifestyle and drafting laws
accordingly
 along with improvising the education sector so that most
people
 can get an education.
However
, having an educated population doesn'
t
 totally ensure that there won'
t
 be any
crime
 but it will definitely reduce the
crime
 rates by a huge margin. To sum up, there are a lot of alternative approaches which can be used to reduce
crimes
 than increasing prison punishment and I think the government and higher authorities should take certain steps to lower
the
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.
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