Section 2 Crime and punishment

Do you swear solemnly to say the truth,

the whole truth,

and nothing but the truth?

So, help you God.

Activity 1. Match the criminals with their descriptions

bigamist	helps a criminal in a criminal act
hijacker	makes false money or documents
drug dealer	betrays his or her country to another state
poacher	takes away people by force and demands money for their return
hooligan	hunts illegally on somebody else’s land
mugger	kills for political reasons or reward
traitor	a soldier who leaves the armed forced without permission
stowaway	hides on a ship or plane to get a free journey
spy	marries illegally, being married already
accomplice	brings goods into one country from another illegally
fraud or con man	attacks and robs people especially in public places
kidnapper	steals from his own company
forger	takes control of a plane by force
shoplifter	steals from shops while acting as an ordinary customer
embezzler	pretends or claims to be what he is not
terrorist	buys and sells drugs illegally
smuggler	gets secret information from another country
assassin	uses force to get money
deserter	tries to enforce his political demands by carrying out or threatening acts of violence
racketeer	causes damage or disturbance in public places
arsonist	sets fire to property

Activity 2. Give the name of the defined law breaker

1. steals _____________________________________________________________________

2. steals purses and wallets ______________________________________________________

3. gets money by threatening to disclose personal information__________________________

4. seizes airplanes_____________________________________________________________

5. takes things from a shop without paying__________________________________________

6. kills people_________________________________________________________________

7. steals from houses and offices__________________________________________________

8. steals from banks and trains___________________________________________________

9. takes people hostage from a ransom_____________________________________________

10. steals government secrets____________________________________________________

11. willfully destroys property____________________________________________________

12. marries illegally while being married already______________________________________

Activity 3. What types of crimes are, in your opinion, described in these situations?

1. He threatened to send the love letters to her husband unless she gave him $500.__________

2. The telephone box had been smashed and there was graffiti all over the walls.____________

3. An old man has been attacked and robbed in a city street. ____________________________

4. Department store loses millions of pounds each year through goods being stolen off the shelves._________

5. Thieves broke into the house while the family was away on holiday.___________________

6. The young woman was sexually attacked as she walked across the dark park late at night.______________

7. He watched with satisfaction as the fire he lit burnt down the factory.__________________

8. It was a perfect copy. It was so good, in fact, that it could even fool an expert.____________

9. “If you want to see your child again, put $5000 in an old suitcase and wait for further instructions._______

10. George gave the man $50 in return for a small packet of heroin.______________________

Activity 4. match the charges to the criminals.

a.rape; b.drugs; c.assault; d.arson; e.corruption; f.murder; g.kidnapping; h.fraud; i.manslaughter; j.extortion

1. people accused of dealing in cocaine

2. someone who is responsible for the accidental death of someone

3. someone who makes a violent physical attack on someone

4. dishonest officials who act illegally in their work

5. a businessman who dishonestly takes or uses money

6. someone who violently forces someone to have sex with them

7. someone who takes someone away by force and demands money for their release

8. someone who intentionally kills someone

9. someone who obtains money from someone by threatening violence

10. someone who sets fire to buildings intentionally, perhaps because they like watching fires

Activity 5. Fill in the gaps in the following sentences, choosing the words from the box given above.

1.bigamy 2.civil 3. classes 4.community

5.countries 6.crimes 7.criminal law 8.felony

9.fine 10. forgery 11.laws 12. life imprisonment

13.misdemeanor 14. offences 15. penalty 16.person

17.prison 18.state 19. term 20. treason

Crime

Crime violates the laws of a community, ___________ or nation. It is punishable in accordance with these________. The definition of crime varies according to time and place, but the laws of most ___________consider as crimes such __________as arson, _________, burglary, ___________, murder, and __________.

Not all offences against the law are __________. The laws that set down the punishments for crimes form the ___________. This law defines as crimes those offences considered most harmful to the ___________. On the other hand, a _________ may wrong someone else in some other way that offends the_____________ law.

The common law recognizes three _____________ of crime: treason, ______________ and misdemeanor. Death or __________ is the usual __________for treason. Laws in the US define a felony as a crime that is punishable by a _____________ of one year or more in a state or federal __________. A person who commits a ____________ may be punished by a _____________ or a jail term of less than one year.

Vocabulary expansion. Study properly word-combinations; choose some of them in order to compose a news story. Your news story should contain not less than 10 suggested word-combination.

Crime

1. crime against humanity – преступление против человечества;

2. crime difficult to trace – трудно раскрываемое преступление;

3. crime due to jealousy – преступление, совершенное из ревности;

4. crime instrument – орудие преступления;

5. crime of forethought – предумышленное преступление;

6. crime scene – место совершения преступления;

7. grave crime - тяжкое преступление;

8. war crime - военное преступление;

9. criminal at large – преступник, находящийся на свободе;

10. criminal behavior – преступное поведение;

11. criminal capacity – преступные наклонности;

12. criminal conversation – прелюбодеяние;

13. criminal design – преступный замысел;

14. criminal lunatic – невменяемый преступник;

15. criminal motive – преступный мотив;

16. criminal participation – соучастие в преступлении;

17. assisting offender - пособник;

18. natural born offender - прирожденный преступник;

19. first offender - лицо, совершившее преступление впервые;

20. fugitive offender - преступник, бежавший из-под стражи;

21. habitual offender - рецидивист;

22. mentally abnormal offender - психически ненормальный преступник;

23. principal offender - исполнитель преступления;

Activity 6. Do the odd-word-out exercise

1. to steal, to pilfer, to filch, to purloin, to rob, to smuggle, to thieve, to plunder.

2. to chase, to trace, to pursue, to follow, to seek, to be after, to hunt.

3. a scoundrel, a robber, a thief, a burglar, a murderer, a killer, a gangster, a bandit, a crook, a swindler.

4. a prisoner, a defendant, a prosecutor, an eyewitness, a judge, an attorney, a sheriff, a lawyer, a barrister.

5. blackmail, smuggling, theft, robbery, burglary, felony, bribery, swindling, drug addiction, kidnapping, fraud, infidelity.

Activity 7. By moving vertically or horizontally find eleven kinds of criminal

D F G S P Y V K J D H Y S I E K L M S N B

M N B H I J A C K E R M N H Y S H D L K J

N G V O G HN A W E R T Y U I O P L K J H

I M N P B V D X A S W E R F D F G G H J F

S J H L L O A K K I D N A P P E R S G T A

S N B I U Y L S E R T P I C K P O C K E T

A W E F S D F G H J K L M N C V B S E R H

S A W T E R R E L I A M K C A L B W A S I

S A W E E R T Y G F M U R D E R E R D F E

A A S R W E R T Y U B U R G L A R S D V F

Activity 8. If you commit a crime you may be (put these actions in the correct order):

Accused, arrested, charged, convicted, interrogated, paroled, sent to prison, suspected, tried