2016年1月14日雅思寫作大作文考的是一個和犯罪有關的話題，報道顯示：14歲的年輕人校園違規後會受到做清潔工作的處罰而非服刑，你認為少年犯是否應該被送進監獄?下面是小編整理的雅思英語作文，大家可以參考參考。
A recent newspaper article reports that a 14-year-old boy seriously destroyed school got apunishment to clean streets instead of sending toprison. Do you think young criminals should be sentto jail? 報道顯示：14歲的年輕人校園違規後會受到做清潔工作的處罰而非服刑，你認為少年犯是否應該被送進監獄?
分析:
對於2016年第一個換題月來說，這個題目的難度還是比較大的。首先他的問得比較新，先是問一個觀點是否正確，然後又問考生對於反面觀點的看法。所以表示考生需要對正反兩個觀點都提出自己的看法。可以轉換成:Some people think that a 14-year-old boy who seriously destroyed his school should get a punishment to clean streets, while others think that young criminals should be sent to the jail. Discuss both views and give your own opinion. 題目換個表達方式，我們就非常熟悉了。
對於“打掃街道衛生“這個立場,我們應該是支援的態度,因為題目中所提到罪犯年僅14歲，在大多數國家的`法律當中，未成年人犯罪都是需要從輕處罰的。因此，我們可以用“1. 小孩子心智不成熱;2.小孩子的可塑注較強，應當以教育型懲罰為主”這兩個觀點來支援。
對於“送進監獄”這個立場，我們則是持不支援的態度。那麼我們的寫法就應當是先讓步：監獄可以使孩子明白犯罪的嚴重性，並且針對讓步進行反駁：但是孩子可能會受到監獄中其他罪犯的不良影響，不利於心理髮育。
【範文賞析】：
Alarmingly, various misdeeds among teenagersranging from school bullying or sex assault are nowbecoming big headaches in many countries. Juveniledelinquency not only afflicts the victims but alsojeopardizes the community. Many efforts havealready been made on how to crack down juvenilecrime, but, the effect is far from satisfying. Thisessay aims to represent relevant measures ofpenalties.
Nobody is innate perpetrator，during the journey of life，those who are in the formativeyears are，sometimes，derailed by manifold causes such as the negative influence of negativemass media, the disadvantaged family background or external factors. In this sense, stricterpenalty for the first offenders, unintentional lawbreakers is far from rational, especially whentaking the teenagers’ immature mentality into account. Virtually, appropriate punishment iscommendable, to motivate those juvenile offenders to serve the community or sweeping thestreet can be reasonable measures.
Notwithstanding all that，taking the effects of a misconduct and its motivation intoconsideration is a prerequisite for ensuring justice of the law. There should not be fixedpunishment for all youth crime. Some misdeeds, for example, school bullying or sex assaultswill inevitably distress the sufferers and endanger the society. Hence, light penalty forfelony is unwise. Conversely, stricter punishment for hardened criminals will not only embodythe justice of law but also exert a deterrent effect on those potential malefactors.
To sum up，there is no simple resolution for such a complicate social problem，it isreasonable to expect that the combination of these suggestions may be needed. Custom-tailored penalty may be the best strategy for each teenage crime.
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Children nowadays are exposed in a diversified environment where they have absolute access to internet, being able to befriend with people from a variety of backgrounds. This may result in children's antisocial behavior and there is a heat debate on whether teenagers who commit serious crimes should be punished by doing some volunteering jobs or being imprisoned.
Contributing to their community can be an effectively way to tell them that they are victimizing other people. One argument in its favor is that they are immature. It would be a difficult thing to predict the consequences of their behavior and law knowledge might not be sufficiently acquired at that young age. Another important factor in this respect is that they are form able in character compared to adult criminal, thus it is better to educate them. Doing something valuable to their society can embed a sense of responsibility in them and give them an opportunity to reflect on their deviance, which will truly rectify their criminality.
However, of course those who advocate custody sentence may have some plausibility to some wing them to recognizing their mistakes is the priority of taking adolescent law breakers into prison. Once received harsh penalty,preventing persistent crime seems to be possible But the believers of this have ignored the issue over what if they are negatively influenced by other prisoners? How should they face the society with an ex-record especially when finding jobs.
In conclusion. I therefore believe that having faith in the young who go astray cannot be a more effective way to solve raging young criminal activities and taking responsibility for their living surroundings is the best way to do this.
