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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)