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6. There are many crimes and offences apart from the few mentioned above.

a) Explain or exemplify the offences listed below.

blackmail poaching fraud

kidnapping mugging petty theft

arson drug peddling bigamy

drink-driving espionage obscenity

manslaughter shoplifting forgery

smuggling treason hijacking

domestic violence bribery and corruption embezzlement

b) Which of the above would involve the following?

counterfeit money bribery

pornography treachery

hostages state secrets

a ransom contraband

heroin a store detective

c) Match the offences listed above with the corresponding offender.

An arsonist, an assassin, a deserter, an embezzler, a forger, a fraud, a hooligan, a mugger, a poacher, a racketeer, a smuggler, a terrorist, a thief.

d) Suggest what penalty each criminal deserves and explain the reason. Here are some of the sentences you might wish to hand down: death penalty, life imprisonment, solitary confinement, putting on probation, community service, a fine, corporal punishment, a short prison sentence, a suspended sentence, paying compensation, driving ban, endorsement (on a driving license).

7. Read the following text and put each of the words below into its correct place. Discuss the problem raised in the article.

Passing, jury, bailed, sentenced, law, prosecutor, verdicts, guilty, convictions, crime, record, court, appeal, parole.

Tony Martin, the Norfolk farmer, who shot a teenage boy in the back as he tried to burgle his isolated farmhouse, was found [1] of murder and [2] for life at the end of a case that touched a raw nerve across rural Britain. Martin was convicted by a [3] of six men and six women who had earlier returned not guilty [4] on charges of attempting to murder another man, the burglar Brendon Feargon, and of possession of a firearm and ammunition with the intent to injure life.

Barras, the killed teenager, had a long criminal [5]: a number of previous [6] and it was not his first attempt to burgle Martin’s house. Norwich crown [7] heard that Martin had been repeatedly burgled. Nevertheless, Peter Tidey, the chief crown [8] said: “Actions such as that taken by Tony Martin cannot be tolerated in a civilized society. When people break the [9] it is for the law to punish them.” [10] the life sentence Mr. Justice Owen said: “The law is that every citizen is entitled to use reasonable force to prevent [11]. However, a householder in his own home may not be reasonable and that can have tragic consequences.”

The verdict was accepted with horror by the farmer’s many supporters across the country who believed that he had done the right thing. A close friend of Martin, M.Starr, said: “If criminals were not [12] out or released on [13] they would have been in prison and wouldn’t have been shot.”

Martin’s lawyer, Nick Makin, said he would [14].

8. Study the article CRIME IN AMERICA: IT IS GOING TO GET WORSE (Reader) and do the following assignments.

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