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Band 4.5

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 crime. Discuss both views and give your opinion. Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own experience or knowledge.

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A portion of
society
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 believes that long imprisonment of the guilty is the ideal method to get down the
crime
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 rates
while
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 the rest argues that there are
subsitiute
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substitute
methods
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 to do it. Generally, long punishments waste
producive
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productive
 human
life
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whereas
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 other strong ways
in
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of
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 penalizing and
the
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apply
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career education can demotivate people from bad .
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, I think alternative
methods
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in
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for
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 punishing criminals
is
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are
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a better selection
to
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for
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 any country. Admittedly, extended punishment
period
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periods
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 in
a
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apply
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jail
misspend
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 a productive human
life
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to
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 a motherland.
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this
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 causes
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an
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energetic workable period of a person to spend in
a
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jail on
tax payers
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taxpayers
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 money. When they
released
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are released
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 back to
the
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society
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 they even cannot survive as they don't have any savings and they are no longer suitable for most of the jobs available
at
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the
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modern civilization, where they again become a burden to
the
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society
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.
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,
according to
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 an article on the Sunday
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last
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 month ,most of the
long standing
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imprisoners
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prisoners
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, when they got released,
they
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apply
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refuce
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refuse
refused
 to go back to
the
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society
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 becoming a trouble to the
homecountry
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home country
 in their whole lifetime.
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, there are many ways to reduce
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crime
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the crime
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 rate than punishing after doing
the
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a
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 bad act. Strong penalizing
methods
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 like initialization of death sentences to larger crimes ,and increase
the
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in the
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 amount of fines for wrong acts can demotivate people not to
commence
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commencing
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 the
crime
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at
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in
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first
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 place.
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 , better career education can strengthen
the
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society
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 economically which
help
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helps
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 for a better living
standerd
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standard
 with less motivation to commence
bad
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badly
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.
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According to
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 the Times magazine, in Dubai,
Soudi
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Saudi
 Arabia, less than 1000
imprison
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imprisoned
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for a whole year
due to
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srick
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strict
sick
 rules and regulations and
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an economical
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economical
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economically
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 stable
society
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.
Thus
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, there are many
methods
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 available to reduce
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crime
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the crime
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 rate than extended imprisonment.
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, in my conviction, prisoners have to
give
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oppertunities
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opportunities
 to rebuild their
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life
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lives
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 without just
waisting there
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wasting their
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life
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lives
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in
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on
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 long prison sentences
while
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strenthening
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strengthening
society
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 with career education and other
stric
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strict
 rules and regulations to lessen the offences rates. In conclusion, legislators have to come up with plans not to waste human
lifes
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lives
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 with long prison sentences
whereas
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 they should utilize other
methods
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 to demotivate bad acts.
Thus
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this
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wirter
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writer
 strongly holds the notion that there are better alternative ways of
reduce
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reducing
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 crimes.

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Task Response
You effectively addressed the task by discussing both views and providing your own opinion.
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Use of Examples
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    • Sentence 1 - Topic sentence
    • Sentence 2 - Example
    • Sentence 3 - Discussion
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    • Sentence 1 - Topic sentence
    • Sentence 2 - Example
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