Министерство образования и науки РФ
федеральное государственное бюджетное образовательное
учреждение высшего профессионального образования
«Иркутский государственный лингвистический университет»
CRIME
DOESN’T PAY
Иркутск
ИГЛУ
2013
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ББК 81.43.1 – 923
B 65
Печатается по решению редакционно-издательского совета Иркутского
государственного лингвистического университета
Рецензенты: канд. филол. наук, доцент кафедры американистики ИГЛУ
Э.В. Калашников
канд. пед. наук, доцент кафедры рекламы и связей с
общественностью ИГЛУ Ю.С. Заграйская
B 65 Crime doesn’t pay: учебно-методическое пособие / авт.-сост.
А.Н. Войткова, Т.В. Пименова. – Иркутск : ИГЛУ, 2013. – 90 с.
Целью данных рекомендаций является повышение уровня лингвистической
компетенции в рамках изучаемой темы, а также совершенствование страноведческих
знаний в сфере права в Великобритании и США.
В соответствие с целью задачи заключаются в:
- ознакомлении с лексическим материалом по теме, тренировке его и
закреплении во всех видах речевой деятельности (до 300 лексических единиц);
- совершенствовании навыков и умений ознакомительного, просмотрового и
аналитического чтения, аудирования, диалогического и монологического
высказывания, комментирования, написания аргументативного эссе.
- знакомстве со стадиями уголовного процесса в Великобритании и США,
взаимодействием между правоохранительными органами и населением,
особенностями судебного процесса (в частности, работой присяжных), некоторыми
отличительными чертами гражданского процесса, а также проблемой подростковой
преступности.
Настоящие методические рекомендации предназначены для студентов 4 курса
лингвистического университета, изучающих в рамках курса английского языка тему
“Crime doesn't pay”.
ББК 81.43.1 – 923
© Иркутский государственный
лингвистический университет,
2013
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CONTENTS
Introduction: how honest you are?
Part 1 Deviance & crime
P Types of crimes
art 2 Computer & crimes
Part 3 Who commits crimes?
Part 4 What stops us from committing crimes?
Street violence
P When should we intervene?
art 6 Justice
Part 7 Punishment
P Capital Punishment
art 8 Prisons
Part 9 Trial
Who is who in the world of law
P Juries
art 10 Role play. Lady Wyat accused of shoplifting
ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES
Part 11 Quotations
Part 12 Idioms
Part 13 Phrasal verbs
Business law
art 5 Methods & techniques
P Techniques for solving crimes
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Introduction
1. You find a wallet containing $1,000.
There are no papers inside to show who it
belongs to. Do you hand it to the police or
keep it?
a.
hand it to the police
b. keep it с. not sure
2. You have an expensive meal in a
restaurant. When you check the bill, you
see that the waiter has forgotten to charge
you for the drinks. Do you tell him or
keep quiet?
a.
tell him b. keep quiet c.
not sure
3. Do you think it is all right to hide some
of your earnings from the tax inspector?
a. yes
b. no
с not sure
4. Have you ever pretended to be ill to get
off work or school?
a. often
с. never
b. once or twice/ occasionally
5. You are staying at a hotel, and you see
that they have very nice towels. Do you
take any home with you?
a.
all of them
b. just one с none
d. not sure
6. You advertise your house for sale.
Somebody offers you a good price, and
you agree to sell. Before you sign the
contract, somebody else offers you
another $5,000. Do you stay with the first
buyer or sell it to the second?
a.
с go back to the first and ask for $5,000
more
stay with the first
d.
not sure
7. One of your family (mother, father,
wife, husband, child) has some very
strange friends. One day you find a letter
from one of these people lying around the
house. Do you read it?
a. yes
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
A 1 1 4 4 6 1 4 5 3 3
B 6 4 1 2 4 4 1 3 3 1
C 3 3 3 1 1 3 3 1 2 1
3 2
b. certainly not с. perhaps
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D
1 2
3
2
1
4
3
1
3
1
2
3
1
2
1
3
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15. Have you answered all the questions completely
honestly?
a. yes
b. no
c.
well, nearly
Scores
15: Are you sure you answered question 15
honestly?
16-22: You’re a very honest person
23-30: You’re more honest than average
31-45: You’re honest about some things and
dishonest about others.
46-59: You seem to be a rather dishonest person. But perhaps you’re kind to children and animals
60: You even give dishonest answers to questionnaires – it’s terrible!
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b. sell to the second
HOW HONEST ARE YOU?
8. In your opinion how serious is shoplifting?
a.
not at all serious - most people do it at one time or
another
b. you might do it if you really needed something and hadn't
got enough money
с you would never do it
9. You are playing cards (not for money) and you see that
somebody is cheating. What do you think about it?
a.
it doesn't matter
b. it's annoying but not too serious
c. you refuse to go on playing unless they stop
d. you stop the game because you won't play with people
who cheat
10. Travelling in a taxi, you find a torch lying on the seat -
it must have been dropped by the last passenger. What do
you do?
a.
put it in your pocket
b. give it to the taxi driver с just leave it d. not sure
often
11. Have you ever cheated in an exam?
a.
b. more than once
с once
d.
never
12. What do you think about traveling without a
ticket on public transport?
a. OK
b. not really OK, but you might do it
с. completely wrong - you would never do it
13. Is it ever right to tell lies about yourself to impress
other people?
a.
it can be
b. never
с not sure
14. Is it all right to take stationery from the place where
you work?
a. yes
b. no
с not sure
Read the
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Part 1: DEVIANCE AND CRIME
1.1. a) Check the meanings of deviance and
crime in a dictionary.
b) List some examples of deviant and
criminal behavior.
c) Complete the table with behaviors that relate to the
issues listed on the left.
Issue
Use of the
streets
Use of
alcohol
Making
money
Some behaviours that are generally considered normal, deviant
or criminal in most Western industrialized societies
Normal
Deviant but not
criminal
Crossing the street
at the traffic light
Moderate social
drinking
Earning a living as
an adult
Alcohol abuse
Begging on the
streets
1.2. Read the text & make the summary of it
DEVIANCE AND CRIME
Have you ever...
crossed the street
against the traffic light?
driven through a
stop sign without
stopping?
drunk or bought alcohol as a minor?
cheated on a test?
If so, you have broken a socially accepted norm
or practice, and you could therefore be considered
deviant. Deviant behavior is behavior that is considered
to be unacceptable, or outside the norms for that society.
There are, of course, degrees of deviance and not every
member of a society will agree on what is deviant
behavior and what is normal behavior. For example, while
many people believe that prostitution is deviant, others
see it as legitimate way for people to earn a living. Also,
what is seen as deviant behavior will change over time
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Deviant and criminal
Failing to stop after a
traffic accident
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and vary from place to place. Drinking alcohol, for example, has been regarded as
deviant or as acceptable in the United States at different times in the past. In fact,
in the 1920s, alcohol was considered to be so unacceptable in the U.S. that it was
illegal to sell, buy, or consume it. Now drinking in moderation is accepted by the
majority of the population as normal social behavior for adults. What is considered
to be deviant may also vary from culture to culture. In most cultures, but certainly
not in all, it is regarded as deviant for a man to have more than one wife at the
same time. However, there are some religious groups and cultures where polygamy
is an accepted practice.
Some acts of deviance may simply result in a person being regarded as odd
or unusual, while other deviant behaviors actual break the law. These behaviors
seen as crimes. Crimes can be grouped into different categories. One category is
violent crime. This includes murder, rape, robbery, and assault. Another is
property crime, such as theft, arson, or burglary. There is also a
category of victimless crime, so-called because such crimes do not
involve harm to people other than the criminals themselves.
Examples of victimless crimes include gambling, prostitution, and
drug abuse. Another category is white-collar crime, which includes
tax evasion and embezzlement.
In 2000, there were 11,6 million reported crimes (excluding
traffic offenses) in the United States. According to a report by the
FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), in 2000 the following crimes are occurred
at
the
rates
shown (www. disastercenire. com/crime/uscrhne. htm):
Robbery: 46.5 per hour
Burglary: 234 per hour
Violent crime: 163 per hour
Rape: 10.3 per hour
Murder: 1.8 per hour
Vehicle theft: 133 per hour
It should be noted, however, that these figures are based only on crimes that
are reported. Actual crime rates may be two or three times higher than the official
figures.
Murder, or homicide, is the most serious crime, and reports on crime show
that it is also mostly a personal crime. That is, homicide is far more likely to be
committed against acquaintances, friends, or relatives than against strangers. It
also occurs most frequently during weekend evenings, particularly Saturday night.
As a crime of passion, homicide is usually carried out under overwhelming
pressure and uncontrollable rage.
While the public perception may be that the crime rate, especially for violent
crime, is continuing to rise, there has in fact been a decline over the past decade. In
1991, there were 1.9 million violent crimes reported in the United States. By 1998,
this figure had dropped to 1.5, million. Murder rates in the same period dropped
from 24,700 to 16,914.
***Minor - someone too young to be legally considered an adult; punishments for
minors are usually different than those for adults
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1.3. a) The following questions are not answered directly in
the text. Work with a partner figure out the answers.
1. Why is burglary a more frequently occurring crime than
robbery?
2. Where does the term "white-collar crime" come from?
3. What are some of the reasons that victims of crime may not
report the crime?
4. Why is Saturday night the most likely time for homicides to
occur?
b) Discuss these questions with your
classmates:
1. What are the most frequent types of crime in your
country/city?
2. How safe do you feel in your country/city?
3. What is the most dangerous city in your country?
4. Have you ever been the victim of a crime?
1.4. a) Match the crimes on the left with the definitions on
the right.
1 homicide
2 burglary
3 robbery
4 hijacking
3 espionage
6 assault
7 arson
8 prostitution
9 drug
trafficking
a spying
b sexual attack on a person
с murder or killing
d a violent attack
e the deliberate burning of property
f breaking into a building to steal
g dealing in or selling drugs
h using force to steal
i forcing someone to give you control of a vehicle
j having sexual relations in exchange for money
b) Match the words with the definitions, and then give the
nouns which derive from the verbs.
1.
2.
arson
shoplifting
3. mugging
4. burglary
5. murder
6. kidnap
7. terrorism
8. pick-pocketing
9.
assassination
a) stealing things from people's pockets
b) taking somebody by force and demanding money for their
return
c)
d) stealing objects from shops while posing as a customer
e)
to change course
f) making false
paintings
signatures,
documents or
killing somebody for political reasons or for payment
taking control of a plane using force and forcing the pilot
currency,
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10.hijack
11.forgery
12.theft
g) attacking people in the street in order to rob them h)
breaking into a house and stealing possessions
i) committing violent acts for political/religious reasons
j)
killing someone
k) illegally setting fire to property
I) action of stealing
c) Put these words and phrases in the correct box:
Crimes against people
Crimes involving things or property
murder, rape, sexual assault, assault causing grievous bodily harm, mugging,
robbery, burglary, car theft, homicide, arson, blackmail, child abuse, kidnap,
fraud, pick-pocketing, shoplifting, stealing
1. thief
2.
d) Match the criminals with the descriptions:
a.
robber
3. burglar
4. mugger
5. murderer
6.
7. arsonist
8.
9.
vandal
10. hijacker
kidnapper
shoplifter
b.
c.
order to
set him or her free
d.
someone who kills somebody else on purpose
someone who steals things from shops
someone who takes a person by force and demands ransom in
someone who steals something from a bank, post office, shop,
etc...
often using threats or force
e.
f.
g.
someone who uses force to take control of an aeroplane, train etc.
someone who takes things which do not belong to him or her
someone who damages other people's property on purpose
h. someone who attacks people in the street in order to steal
something
i.
j.
someone who sets fire to property on purpose
someone who breaks into people's houses to steal something
e) Make up the chart with derivatives related to crimes
Crime (noun) Doer Verb Definition of your own
f) Complete the sentences with the correct form of the word
in brackets
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1. Nobody at the company realized that he had been (embezzle) ..................
money until someone noticed some errors in the books.
2. The (rape).............admitted that he had spoken to the woman but denied that
he had (rape).......her.
3.
It is difficult to protect children from (abuse)..............who are members of
their own family.
4. The (blackmail) ..................... was caught when someone recognized her
handwriting.
5. Armed (robbery) ............... is increasingly common, with criminals using
shotguns and other weapons.
6. The (mug)..................came up to her in the street and produced a knife.
7. The (murder).................of women tend to be their husbands (48%) whereas
only 10% of men (murder) .:...................by their wives.
8. The (theft)...................got into the gallery at night and took three Picassos.
9. The (assault)....................was vicious and victim needed 56 stitches.
10.The (arson) ................... who set fire to Anna Hathaway's cottage did it
because he had had a row with his girlfriend.
1.5. Match the headlines with the crimes, choose one
headline and write a short article.
kidnapping
hijacking
assassination
arson
mugging
BOY SNATCHED FROM MUM IN PARK
PENSIONER ATTACKED IN TOWN CENTRE FOR $5
"REMOVERS" EMPTY FREE HOUSES
FACTORY FIRE "NO ACCIDENT"
PRESIDENT KILLED BY SINGLE BULLET
GUNMAN FORCES PILOT TO LAND IN A DESERT
1.6. LISTENING
Listening task: Listen to Chief Inspector Ronald Lewis
advising people on how to protect themselves from certain
types of crime and fill in the table below.
Mugging
Kidnapping •
•
Car theft
carry a personal …………………………….
attend ………………………………….. classes
teach children not to.................................................
if approached by ……………........
nearest …………………… place
•
•
•
if you can afford it, hire a...........................
fit an.................................system
parking ……………………............. car park
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burglary
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• make sure your car is securely .................................
FOLLOW-UP
1.7. Say what crimes are described:
1. He threatened to send the love letters to her husband unless she gave him
$5000.
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. He is recovering in
hospital.
4. Department stores lose 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. "That'll
make them wish they'd never given me the sack," he thought.
8.
It was a perfect copy. It was so good, in fact, that it could even fool an expert.
9. The bank believed her to be trustworthy. They had no reason to suspect that she
had transferred thousands of pounds to false accounts.
10."If you want to see your child again, put $50,000 in an old suitcase and wait for
further instructions.1'
11 .George gave the man $50 in return for a small packet of heroin.
12.lt was a beautiful day. The sun was shining and people were sitting outside the
cafe enjoying the sunshine. Then the bomb went off.
13."If only 1 hadn't brought these watches through customs," she thought as she
sat crying in the police station.
1.8. COLLOCATIONS. Match the adjectives with the nouns
vicious
brutal
common habitual
cold-blooded
petty
murder criminal
PART 2 COMPUTERS AND CRIME
2.1. Ponder over the questions:
What kinds of crime are associated with computers?
Work with a partner. Make a list of kinds of crime that involve computers.
2.2. The words in the left column below relate to computers;
those in the right column relate to computer crime. Discuss
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offender crime
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