Crime is a serious and growing problem in most societies. Although many people believe that the best way to tackle this is to place people in prison for longer periods, others are of the opinion that other measures will be more effective.

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Crime
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is a serious problem rising in today's world. To tackle it, a large number of people think that
criminal
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should place in jail for a longer
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for their offences, while others believe that other methods will be more effective to decrease the
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rate.
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essay will look at both views and explain why I think that shorter prisons with psychological
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will better method for criminals to not
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again. On the one hand, there are many reasons why people think that offenders should send to
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and foremost, in
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due to corporal punishment by prisoners criminals, they fear committing
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again.
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, people feel relief to send criminal to lock up,
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is because the community live a good life without worries about
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.
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, during spending longer
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in
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offenders realise their mistake to spend their half of life in jail. But due to spending longer in lockup and for corporal punishment they do not survive in the community and have no energy to work in society in their old age.
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, in my opinion, a better way to curb
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is by providing psychological
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to offenders during their short-term
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. To illustrate
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, giving psychological
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to their offence will be beneficial for them to realise their past mistakes.
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, countries like Netherland adapt these methods to apply to their criminal and
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announce offender's
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term
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will be no more than six years but must get psychological
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during their period in jail, and
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, from the
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few year's records can be seen that the
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rate in Netherland is decreasing dramatically. In conclusion, in my opinion, providing short
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along with mental
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help individuals to not
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again and
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they can realise their past
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only by
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we can decrease the
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rate in
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world.
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