Good afternoon. I've been asked to give my view about different punishments: community services, prison and death penalty.
Nowadays providing security to people is one the most concerning issues for the governments. There are different options to get this goal, and one of the most used is to punish lawbreakers.
Most legal systems have a variety of options to punish offenders. That's why there are heated debates about which are the more appropriate punishments for every crime.
In my view community services should be used mainly with first-time offenders and young people who have committed minor crimes. The reasons to do that are:
- Prison is usually a great place for beginners to become criminal experts. We need to prevent this.
- It is important to give people the opportunity to rehabilitate.
- Jails are crowded.
On the other hand, prison sentence should be used with major crimes and with criminals who are second offenders. It is obvious that the penalty for every crime should be proportional to the offence. Moreover people who are second offenders haven't learnt anything useful about the consequences of their crimes for the society and so, they don't deserve to be helped.
Regarding death penalty is a very controversial issue. Although many countries have stopped using it, capital punishment has been implemented by some countries for many years. Besides many nations are currently considering whether to legislate that punishment or not.
From my point of view it shouldn't be implemented in any case because I feel really scared about the chance of innocent people may be executed. In that case there is no turning back for these people. Moreover this punishment is uncivilized.
To conclude I would like to say that society should be aware of the punishments if they break the law because it would act as deterrent of crime.
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