IELTS Essay: Criminals at Large 雅思样文谈罪犯出狱

大部分罪犯服刑之后即放虎归山。把危险犯人重新纳入社会的措施有无道理可言？



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IELTS Writing Task 2



Most criminals are set free once they finish their jail terms. Is the re-introduction of criminals in society justified? Place your view in no less than 250 words.







The re-introduction of criminals in society is a judicial as well as social issue worthy of debate. I should make it clear at the outset that I have nothing against criminals being set free once they finish their prison terms. Some of them deserve a second chance, as long as they are prepared to live an honest life. Others are contrary to our expectations.



Crimes and punishments, it seems to me, are out of steps. It is discouraging to know that a major part of dangerous criminals have proved to be immune to correction measures as punishments for their crimes. It is as if they have changed prison gates into revolving doors, in between their repeated jail terms.



That has given rise to a vicious cycle which makes neither social nor economic sense. It is a waste of the money of ordinary taxpayers hiring police to play cat-and-mouse with dangerous evil-doers hidden in the backyards of innocent people. Criminals are set free, caught again, free again, back to prisons again, out again, only to be caught again.

While they are roaming at large, the society is at risk, having many fearful days and sleepless nights.



I think that this situation is not very unlike putting the society to throw dice with security. The re-introduction of dangerous criminals is in for mixed results between good luck and bad luck for the society. Unless some critical rules of the game are changed in reverse, the society cannot be too careful, indeed, before the dice is thrown.