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“Some people think that the best way to reduce crime is to give longer prison sentences. Others however, believe there are better alternative ways of reducing crimes” Discuss both views and give your opinion.

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People
 have a myriad of views about the best option for preventing
crimes
, some claim that expanding the
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 time is the best option, but others
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 that there are
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methods
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. Divergent as
people
's views on
this
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criminal
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 in the prison for
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 the purpose of reducing
crimes
. On one hand, increasing
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 of sentences may able to prevent
crimes
 since some
people
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afraid
 of the consequence. Strict penalties would traffic
people
 in turn control their actions.
For example
, if pushing your waste on the street is illegal and it cause you
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 in the prison for a decade, I believe that no
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trash on the street.
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methods
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 achieve the goal of reducing
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 rate. Despite the aforementioned views, I still believe that there are many others ways
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 decrease the
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 rate, and probably the most significant one is that force the offender to study working skills. Many
people
 commit
crimes
 because they
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lack of abilities or skills to get a job which
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 them can not earn money by working
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 other normal citizens.
Finally
, they steal from others for survival. So,
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 should offer a second chance to
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prisoners in order to prevent second
crimes
. It is
also
 a way of declining the crime rate. Under
this
 line of thinking, it seems to me that
longer
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sentences
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 period would prevent some
crimes
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occur
.
However
, giving opportunities for
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 the root issue.
Hence
, I believe that providing professional skills training
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