Section 2: Crime and violence 1) Should criminals be punished with lengthy jail terms or re-educated and rehabilitated using, for instance, community service programmed, before being re-introduced to society. -; Answer: Insight into Ielts186. - Long Term Jail Sentences - Not as expensive as rehab - Criminals dont deserve special funding and education - Deters future crime - Satisfies the public - Criminals are inherently bad - they will always re-offend - Rehab programmes ineffective - criminals re-offend - Longer time before criminals get the chance to re-offend - Rehabilitation - Keeping prisoners is expensive anyway - longer jail term higher the cost - Rehab programmes can be used to make or save money - eg. build things - Has been found that heavy sentences have no effect on crime rate - Long-time inmates are most likely to re-offend - Rehab programme is better than nothing - Long term jail sentences create us and them situation - Crime and criminals are social problem, we have to try and re-integrate criminals into society, rehab tries to do this 2) Everybody has the right to carry gun --Preparation and practice 168 |