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Prison is the common way in most countries to solve the problem of crime. However, a more effective solution is to provide people with a better education. Agree or disagree?

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Criminals are one of the hard challenges which most countries have to deal with. There is a school of thought regarding jailing
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people
 have come up with a more effective solution which provides
people
 with better
education
. Personally, I would argue against
this
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people
 will tend to reduce doing illegal things if they have been well educated. There are compelling reasons
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as to why there will be some
people
 doing bad things regarding their awareness and outer effects. Regarding the former, some
people
 will be likely to ignore what they have been taught and do what they want despite its consequences.
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great students because some do not adopt the given knowledge. With respect to the latter, there are several reasons
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make a person become a criminal. In fact, one of them could be the financial pressure which forces them to steal money for their living, the other factor may be violence from their parents, and they will follow
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what they have absorbed.
However
, I am
also
 convinced that our
education
 system may not meet the requirement to provide
people
 with better
education
. In the first place, providing good conditions
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 learning in a wide range will cost a lot of money.
Furthermore
, sending criminals to prison is a method of pushing for what they have done. In conclusion,
while
 there are justifications for providing
people
 with better
education
, I would contend that jailing them will be a more effective way.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • tackles root causes
  • preventative approach
  • critical thinking
  • decision-making skills
  • recidivism rates
  • equipping
  • socio-economic benefits
  • underlying factors
  • poverty
  • ignorance
  • lack of opportunities
  • rehabilitation
  • ineffective
  • higher rates of re-offending
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