IELTS WRITING TASK 2 - FIXED PUNISHMENT

Some people believe that there should be fixed punishment for each type of crime. Others, however, argue that circumstance of an individual crime, and the motivation for committing it, should always be taken into account when deciding on the punishment. Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.

Never before in history has the disparity between the affluent and the destitute been so evident than now, which inevitably paves the way for felonies. Some individuals, usually those who hold a strong grudge at the mere mention of crime, insist that punishments for every kind of crime should be fixed, without any sympathy to the perpetrators, while others maintain a relatively reasonable assertion that more consideration, such as under which situation or with which motivation did they crime, should not be neglected.

It is, indeed, quite easy for us, as an human being or even a victim, to understand their infuriation toward flagitious crime, because any of us, in fact, is the potential target of felony, consequently it do make sense that we should condemn rather than condone the criminal act.

Nevertheless, human rights also lie in the culprits, it would be unfair to treat a burglar who steal stuff for being alive the same as the one who steal things just for entertainment, in that the former has no alternative but to committee a crime in order to sustain his or her life, while there are substitutes for the latter.

Another case in piont is that, in reality, both of the two systems of law which are statute law and case law, take the elements such as motivation and situation into consideration. Besides, law should be used to improve our live rather than circumscribe our rights by route.

All in all, hatreds as we are toward the crime, we should give a more comprehensive consideration about how we tackle it.