Question: Some people think sending criminals to prison is not an effective way to deal with them. Education and training are better. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Over the last decades, the issues of solving crimes have never failed to attract public attention and provoked debates. It is believed that education and training bring better effects in comparison with imprisonment. While it is true that education and training offer certain benefits, I still subscribe to the view prisons are indispensable in coping with crimes.
On the one hand, education and training maintain their significant roles as they can help solve the origins of illegalities. If the majority of citizens receive proper education with meaningful awareness-raising activities, they will be less likely to go against the laws. Moreover, most of ex-prisoners are overtly discriminated against and given no tolerance; therefore, they are likely to engage in crimes again. By contrast, rehabilitation will give them chance to renew their life without re-committing the wrongdoings. With proper educational policies, people will have deeper knowledge about about their roles and responsibilities in societies, which leads them away from immoral actions.
That being said, there are some important reasons to support the role of prisons. To commence with, prisons are vital to the maintenance of social security. In reality, heinous criminals like murderers, terrorists, rapists are sentenced to prison immediately once they get caught. As a result, their improper actions could be curbed and public orders could be preserved. Furthermore, prisons also act as effective deterrents for criminals as the fear of being arrested and receiving punishments is by no means comfortable. There is no question that once thinking of miserable life in the cells, criminals will probably refrain themselves from misconducts and abide by the laws.
In brief, while there are some advantages offered by education and training, it is unrealistic to disregard the roles of prisons in re-mediating crime-related issues. To my mind, the government should combine these two methods so as to ameliorate current situations and stabilize the communities.
Vocabulary topic Government and Law:
- to abide by (v): to obey to the law, rules (synonyms: to respect, to comply with)
- to curb (v): to keep something under control
- to stabilize the communities (col.): to make the societies settled and safe
- to go against the laws (col.): to do something that is not allowed by the laws
Vocabulary topic Crime:
- ex-prisoner (n): a person who has been in the prison
- to recommit (v): to repeat the crime who has been committed
- wrongdoings (n): faults
- deterrent (n) + for: something that discourages people from doing something
- heinous (adj): very bad and shocking
- rehabilitation (n): the act of re-educating people who have been criminals to give them a new life
Other vocabulary:
- indispensable (adj): very important
- overtly (adv): in public
- to remediate (v) = to ameliorate: to make a bad situation become more pleasant
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