Crime & Punishment ( Idea Bank for IELTS )

Hiring more cops

bolstering police forces reduce crime

robberies

burglaries

theft

jurisdictions

negate

weed out bad cops

negligent officers

The case for hiring more police officers 

earn plaudits from

prison sentences

violent offenders

an idea espoused by 

multifaceted problem

incarceration

victims of crime

one grievance Africans have with the criminal justice systems

neighborhoods are underpoliced

impeccable

mobilize extra officers

crooks

with more officers around, fewer people commit crimes

officers patrolling the streets

convicts

law enforcement

a sharp trade-off between crime reduction and civil rights

cops on the beat

stop and frisk tactics were curtailed

being assigned to a 13-hour shift

reform

racial disparities

the problem of police misconduct

de rigueur for 

members of state legislature

incurring the wrath of police officers

perennial

reform does not mean indifference to crime

  • In modern society, the right to use force is restricted to the state, and citizens are not expected to take the law into their own hands.
  • perpetrators of murder must be punished
  • beyond the pale
  • Their value system , that is full of hatred and xenophobia , should be denounced as beyond the pale of democracy
  • maintaining an uneasy silence on the gruesome act
  • Human rights reside in every human being, they are not conferred by the state
  • Law enforcement agencies should be like a watchdog of the government, not a lapdog
  • execution
  • disciplinary powers in prisons
  • solitary confinement is defined by many as cruel , inhuman and degrading treatment or torture.
  • imprisonment
  • inmates
  • prisoners are deprived of  basic communication to the outside world through phone call to family.

Capital Punishment

utilitarian

forfeited their own right to life

retribution

indignation

victim

law-abiding citizens

legitimize

condemned person

abolish

treason

crimes against humanity

crimes against women

deterrent effect

imprisonment

sanction of life

single out

discriminatory

arbitrary

protracted

condemned to death

jurisdiction

In South Africa , capital punishment was outlawed in 1995

a capital offense

countries impose death penalty for various reasons

embezzlement of public funds

ratify the convention

mentally impaired

a UN injunction against capital punishment

exonerate

moratoriums on death penalty

commuting the death sentence

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