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Task 1 The table shows the percentages of government expenditure in five sectors of domestic policy in Germany, Italy and the UK in 2009. Overall, it is clear that the health sector’s spending was higher than most sectors in all three countries. On the other hand, their expenditures were the lowest in the environmental protection part. Looking at the table more closely, one can see that Germany and Italy had similar figures in most sectors except the public services part. While the health part was the highest in Germany with 7.1 percent, the public services part was the highest in Italy with 8.6%. The UK’s proportions are similar to Germany and Italy in three sectors, which are economic affairs, environmental protection and health. However, in the education section, it was the highest with 6.4 percent which was about 2 percent higher than the other two countries and in the public services section, it was the lowest with 4.6 percent which was at least 2 percent lower than them.
Task2 It is a common belief that the personal information of violent criminals has not to be opened to the public. However, there is a more persuasive argument that it is more important for the public to know about the information for preventing another crime and protect community. On the one hand, it can victimize innocent people, such as the criminals’ children, and violates the constitution to inform the public about the criminals’ personal information. According to the constitution, family members of the criminals have the right to be protected from any punishment and social criticism. However, if the public can be accessible freely to the criminals’ private data, their family members are at risk of being exposed and discriminated against in the society. Research reported by the Korean Human Right Organization has shown that more than 20% of the violent criminals’ children have been suffered from mental trauma and social prejudice. It can make another victim and offender. Nevertheless, I support the idea that the public should be available to the violent criminals’ individual information to protect community from terrible crimes. Citizens can prevent crimes by avoiding the criminals in advance if they can know about their identity, but if not, they have no way to cope with the danger even when they have a child and child sex offenders live close to them. According to a recently published study, in the case of violent criminals whose personal information hasn’t been disclosed, the percentage of who committed crimes again is more than 40%. But it is just about 3% among the offenders whose private data has been opened. We can stop these crimes through opening the criminals’ private data and monitoring them.
To sum up, while it is apparent that it can damage to people related to the criminals, it is undeniable that protecting citizens and cutting off the possibility that the offenders commit crimes again are more important. |