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

Imprisonment
is one of the most common
punishments
for
criminals
who
commits
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crimes, some
people
believe giving long
prison
sentences
to
prisoners
may help reduce the
crime
rate
.
However
, some individuals
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that there are better alternative
punishments
to help decrease the
crime
rate
rather than giving longer
prison
sentences
. From my
aspects
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, I believe there are better
ways
to treat
criminals
by different
punishments
, not by giving longer
imprisonment
. On one side, many
people
believe that giving longer
imprisonment
may be the key
for
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this
crime
rate
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,
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because they
thinks
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that
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this punishment
these punishments
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this
punishments
may act as a deterrent to
prisoners
since
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longer
sentences
will make
criminals
thinks about what they did and they will feel guilty and regret about their sins.
However
,
this
method is not likely to work, in
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view of the fact that some
prisoners
may get used to the
prison
lifestyle and see the
prison
cell as their home, so the chances of re-offend
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sky-high,
this
lead to
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criminals
continue to climb the sinfulness ladder. In my view,
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I'm
more likely to lean towards
to
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the
ideal
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of different
ways
to treat
prisoners
rather than increase the
imprisonment
time. I believe there are more alternative solutions to treat
people
who
commits
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crime
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. To kick off, we can educate
people
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tough
the
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prison
life is since you are more likely to become a whole different person in order to fit the
prison
lifestyle. The government can
also
helps
criminals
who are in between jobs can get
a
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stable job so they can become socialize and won’t have to live
under
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a
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poor financial condition anymore. The government
also
needs to rework the
criminals
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criminal's
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filthy and unhealthy
lifestyle
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lifestyles
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and treat them more politely and
more
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educationally, with these alternative
methods
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the
punishments
will become more effective and very likely to assists decrease the
crime
rate
. In summary, there are more effective
ways
to treat convicts to become
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better
person
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people
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rather
keep
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than keep
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them jailed behind those bars. Giving longer
prison
sentences
might be
an
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deterrent for a short period of time. In order to prepare for
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long run, we should have other effective
ways
instead
.
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