Vocabulary notes

To speculate	размышлять
reluc­tant	делающий с неохотой
to file complaints	подавать иск, жалобу
logger	лесоруб
dead-bolt	засов
to take precautions	принимать меры предосторожности
decals	надпись (переводная)

Task 3. Read the text again and make sure you know all underlined parts of the text. Give their Russian equivalents

Task 4. Agree or disagree with the following statements. Prove your point of view

1. Demographics are to blame for the high rate of crime.

2. Many victims of crimes fail to report them to the police.

3. Many the victims of sexual assaults and rapes do not want their names made public.

4. A considerable majority feel the police are not effective in protecting them.

5. A surprising number of people take precautions even after they have been victimized.

6. Crime figures don’t look depressing at all.

7. Americans let criminals run their lives.

Task 5. Compose questions to which the following statements are the answers:

1. The high-crime ages are 15 to 25.

2. 23 percent of crimes against people went unreported.

3. Victims are often reluctant to report such crimes.

4. Many sexual assaults and rapes go unreported.

5. Victims are often reluctant to report such crimes, fearing the criminals may return to take revenge.

6. A large majority lock their car doors regularly.

7. 38 percent did nothing to improve their security.

8. Only one percent of the population are criminals.

Task 6. Explain in English what the words and word combinations mean. Use them in your own sentences

To speculate, in-migration, to hang tough, to run someone’s life, to take revenge, to make public, sympathy, to bother to do something, burglar alarm, trivial crime, possessions, to notify

Task 7. Practice the speech patterns given below. Make up two sentences of your own on each pattern

1. Victims, or parents of children who have been attacked, do not want their names made public. Of those who reported their homes broken into in the survey, 38 percent did nothing to improve their security.

2. They treat me as if I were the criminal. And you behave as if we were two people who were acquainted. She looks content and confident as if she had nothing to fear.

3. She has now engraved her name or Social Secu­rity number on every item of value in her home and put decals on the windows notifying would-be thieves that her possessions have been registered with the police. My friend and her would-be husband announced the day of their wedding at last.

4. Households in the West Doughly the area from Colorado to the Pacific experience proportionately more crimes of all kinds than do those in the rest of the United States. Using fraudulent U.S. passports (as up to 80 percent of all hard-drug smugglers do), they re-entered the United States and sold the cocaine for more than $30,000. “To go to court, you gotta put on a shirt and tie, drag yourself downtown and hang around till the case comes up, which you never know when. And by the time it does, you forget what you was gonna say.”

5. Principal complaints of victims interviewed: the length of time police took to respond to a call and subsequent lack of police effort and sympathy.

6. Experts speculate that demographics are to blame. More to blame than the courts, however, is that other lawgiver, the Congress.

Task 8. Make the summary of the text. Use the key words and word combinations