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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 Ielts – 186.
- Long Term Jail Sentences - Not as expensive as rehab - Criminals don’t 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 (and even death sentence) 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 3) Patriotism is the biggest cause of war –-Preparation and practice –168. 4) The crime rate among teenagers has increased dramatically in many countries. Discuss some possible reasons for this increase and suggest solutions to this problem. (Discuss a problem and suggest solutions) 5) Why should not take drugs? - All drugs are addictive. - Sooner or later your habit will get out of control. - Drugs make you boring. - Drugs cost a lot of money. - Drugs take up a lot of time. |