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TOPIC 10 – Purpose of Prisons
Some people believe that punishment is the only purpose of prisons, while others believe that prisons exist for various reasons. Discuss both views and give your opinion.
Step 1: Analyze the Task
What kind of question is this?
Opinion / Discussion / Problem Solving / Two-Part
What is the general topic?
Criminal Justice
What is the specific topic?
The purpose of prisons
What is the question asking me?
Why do some people feel that the main purpose of prisons is to punish criminals?
Why do others think that there are different purposes for a prison?
Step 2: Outline
Intro
Paraphrase topic and give a general answer if possible.
Body A
Main Idea: the main purpose of prisons is to punish criminals
- Only through punishment will criminals fix their behavior
- Human nature is not malleable through good will
- Similar to parent spanking child
Body B
Main Idea: prisons can service other functions
- Education of prisoners may be effective
- Less ignorance means less crime
Conclusion
- Paraphrase the intro with main ideas from the body and give a strong finish.
Step 3: Sample
There are a variety of opinions on the role and purpose of prisons. While there are those who believe that punishing crimes is the sole purpose for their existence, others feel that prisons can serve other purposes like rehabilitation through education. In this essay, I will review both of these positions and explain why I feel that prisons should not exist only to punish criminals.
Those who feel that the main goal of a prison is to punish criminals likely believe that the nature of a person is not very malleable through goodwill and thus not worth trying to rehabilitate through education. Prisons, then, are places to punish criminals in the hope that the difficulties of prison life will discourage them from committing future crimes.
While such punishment has certainly been shown to be effective in some contexts, proponents of the idea that prisons exist for various reasons may see such punishment as only one of many possible methods to discourage future crime. Rather than only making life difficult for its inhabitants, prisons can instead work to educate and thereby rehabilitating their prisoners. Through doing this, some believe, the prisoners will come out of their previous ignorance and be less likely to commit future crimes.
Overall, both views are reasonable, and it is difficult to know exactly how effective any one method is without longitudinal research studies. That said, I do believe that it is in the best interest of society as a whole to continue experimenting with a variety of rehabilitation methods at prisons. It is only through such experimentation and research that we can find out if punishment truly should be the sole purpose of prisons.Từ vựng hay cho bài viết IELTS Writing task 2 Band 7.0+:
| sole purpose | An easy substitute for “only purpose” |
| malleable | High-level/uncommon word for describing people easily influenced, trained, or controlled: |
| rehabilitate | to return someone to a good, healthy, or normal life or condition after they have been in prison, been very ill, etc.: |
| proponents | a person who speaks publicly in support of a particular idea or plan of action: |
| Thereby | as a result of this action |
| Do + verb | Used for emphasis/contrast |
| discourage | to make someone feel less confident, enthusiastic, and positive about something, or less willing to do something: |
longitudinal research lɑːn.dʒəˈtuː.dɪ.nəl/ | Longitudinal research is done on people or groups over a long period of time |
| in the best interest of something | Beneficial to something |
