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With growing numbers of people convicted of crimes, prisons are getting full. People are beginning to call for the use of more alternative forms of punishment that do not involve a prison sentence for non-violent crimes. What are the advantages and disadvantages of such a system?

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While
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 the amount of
crime
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been
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increased a lot, it
resulted
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resulted in
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 the
fullfilment
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fulfilment
 of prisons. Some opinions state that there are other ways of punishment of
crime
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 rather than
imprisionment
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imprisonment
 of criminals. There are some sort of positive sides
of
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 it,
on the other
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hand
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 it can cost a lot for society in case not
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those people
to
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the
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justice.
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, from the
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 a huge amount of financial resources to the government and of course, for taxpayers.
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 of advocating
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facing the punishment results in
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prison, convicted persons can be used in some economically beneficial works or jobs, and the authorities
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 been able to guarantee the exchange of some of
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work
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 with the sentenced years.
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result
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 it will motivate the criminals to
work
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 hard and compensate those crimes with some useful works.
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, in some
countries
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countries,
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 prisoners
work
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 in
the
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energy generator places where with the help of
bicyle
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bicycles
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in
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which some places of
country
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the country
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 can be used in their daily
lifes
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lives
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.
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, despite the fact it will increase
marginal
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the marginal
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 utility of
criminal's
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criminal
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work
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prison, it can confuse some people
which
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who
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 tend to have
interest
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an interest
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to commit
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in committing
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crime
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crimes
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to
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the
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misleading point of view. The
crime
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 can
be stay
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 without justice and criminals would not understand the moral side of commitment and their punishment would not be
harsh
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 as it should be. The prisons should not be like holiday
centre
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and
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etc. It has a destination of why
this
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places
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exist
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. In conclusion, in my point of view, in
case
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 of being full by the
prisioners
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prisoners
, some type of holders of light criminal acts can be used in some key areas of
economy
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the economy
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 and it
wiil
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will
 help them to reintegrate
to
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the
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society very fast and well.
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, in some
cases
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cases,
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 the person who
commit
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commits
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an unforgiveable
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unforgiveable
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unforgivable
crime
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 should
be send
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 to the other than prison.

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Answer the 'Advantages and Disadvantages' topic

IELTS advantages and disadvantages questions normally give you a statement and ask you to comment on the advantages and disadvantages of that statement.

Answer structure for the type of essay

  • Introduction
  • Body paragraph 1 – advantages
  • Body paragraph 2 – disadvantages
  • Conclusion

Examples to start your body paragraph:

  • The main advantage is...
  • The disadvantage of this...
  • The main benefit...
  • Despite these advantages...
  • One possible drawback...

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