C. Say what crimes are becoming more common and why.14. Work in pairs. What kind of offences can you name? Write a list of them and add the entries suggested by the other students in your class. Then read the text below and match the names of the crimes in the text with their descriptions below.
The most serious crimes are felonies, which carry a potential penalty of imprisonment for more than one year in a penal institution and fines. A capital offence is a felony for which death is a potential penalty. Misdemeanors carry the maximum potential penalty of imprisonment for maximum a year, or a fine, or both. Imprisonment for misdemeanor is in a local facility, a county jail, or municipal workhouse or jail. Imprisonment for a felony may be served in an approved local facility and imprisonment for consecutive misdemeanors - in a state penal institution. There are nine degrees of felony, the most serious one is aggravated murder. Then goes murder, followed by aggravated felonies of the 1st, 2d, and 3d degrees, and felonies of the first, second, third, and fourth degrees. Misdemeanors are divided into misdemeanors of the 1st, 2d, 3d and 4th degrees, and minor misdemeanors. The list of some of serious offences proscribed by law includes: homicide, assault, menacing threats; kidnapping, abduction, false imprisonment, extortion, coercion; patient abuse; rape, prostitution, obscenity, arson; robbery, burglary, safecracking, trespass; theft, credit card offenses, forgery, fraud; gambling; inciting to violence; false alarms; domestic violence; bribery, perjury, resisting arrest, harboring criminals, escape, graft, conflict of interest, dereliction of public duty, violation of civil rights; conspiracy, attempt, complicity; weapons and explosivescontrol; racketeering, corrupt activity; drug abuse; miscellaneous offenses. 1. taking a person by force and demanding money for his/her return 2. illegal copying of documents, paintings, or paper money 3. taking a person by force without demanding money for his/her return 4. illegally giving money or a gift to persuade an official to do something 5. stealing 6. secret illegal planning 7. sexual attack 8. pushing to unrest 9. risking money on the result of a card game etc. 10. earning money by having sex with people 11. opposing being taken into custody by the police 12. making a person do something by force 13. putting a person to jail illegally 14. bad treatment of sick people 15. blackmail 16. illegal arms possession 17. going onto one's land without his/her permission 18. narcotics misuse 19. physical attack 20. murder 21. intimidation 22. fake warning of danger 23. lying under oath 24. trying to kill someone 25. brutality in the family 26. using sexually offensive words or actions 27. stealing from a bank, shop etc by using violence 28. failure to do what one should do as part of his job 29. illegal opening of special locks with valuables 30. getting into a building to steal things 31. illegal getting away from a prison etc. 32. dishonesty and fraud of public officials 33. denying people what they are entitled to 34. manipulations with credit cards 35. hiding criminal offenders 36. deliberately setting fire, especially to a building 37. deceiving people to get their money or goods 38. getting money or advantage by the dishonest use of influence or power 39. intimidating business people to get money from them 40. involvement in a crime, together with others 41. not doing a job fairly as it'll have a negative impact on your business etc.
15. Put each of the following words and phrases into its correct place in the passage below.
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 United States, for example, 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.
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