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In many countries, the crime rate is increasing.
Why do you think this is happening? What can governments do to help reduce the crime rate?

In a small country like Singapore, the crime rate is very low, because her government introduced both capital and corporal punishment. However, in a European country, such as the United Kingdom, the crime rate has increased since 1964. Something must be done about the increase crime rate and I will like to explain on how it will solve the problem.

Many countries today do not have strict laws and that is why it is easy for criminals to commit any crime they want. In some countries, for example, a rapist gets a five-year jail sentence, unlike in the past when rapists either got executed or sentenced to at least thirty years' imprisonment. The laws in these countries do not impose tougher and severe punishment for these criminals, when these convicts are released from prison, they may go back to their old habits again.

Most governments should reinstate capital punishment to decrease the amount of murders. After the United Kingdom abolished capital punishment in 1964, many of her citizens began to realize that the number of murders in their country had increased. They even wrote letters of complaint to their government, asking for capital punishment to be reinstated. Capital punishment is an effective way of removing these evil criminals from society and it saves a lot of lives.

In Singapore, the government uses corporal punishment such as caning as a deterrent, in order to decrease the amount of crime in the country. There was a time when there was an increase in the number of illegal immigrants who were arrested in Singapore. When they were interviewed by journalists, the illegal immigrants explained that they did not mind being imprisoned because they got free food and accommodation. The Singaporean government imposed a new law, stating that they would cane the next illegal immigrant who entered the country. Thus, the amount of illegal immigrants fell.

In order to prevent the crime rate from increasing, the government should impose strict laws and not to be too lenient to criminals. Both capital and corporal punishment are the best options to reduce crime because they are a necessary punishment to eliminate and frighten these criminals respectively.