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property from a hotel. When he arrived, he found that the hotel staff had caught a boy in one of the rooms with a camera and some cash. When the policeman

tried to (b)____ the boy, he became violent and the policeman had to

(c)_____him. At the police station the boy could not give a satisfactory

explanation for his actions and the police decided to (d)_____him with the

(e)____of the camera and cash. They took his (f)______, locked him in a

(g)

(0.

guilty. Two (m) staff, gave (n) (o)__

and (h) __

before the (j)

him overnight. The next morning he appeared in . He took an (k)____and (1)__not

_, the owner of the property and a member of the hotel . After both sides of the case had been heard the boy was guilty. He had to pay a (p)____of £50 and he was given a

(q)____of three month in prison suspended for two years.

E. Law and Punishment
detective; coroner;	plain clothes; verdict;	jury; solicitor;	warders; trial;	inquest; death penalty.

a) If you want legal advice in Britain, you go to a_____.

b) At the end of the_____, the judge ordered the twelve men and women of

the____to retire and consider their_____, guilty or not guilty.

c) Men or women who look after prisoners in prison are called prison officers or

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d) If a person dies in unusual circumstances, an court, and the "judge" is called a_____.

is held at a special . He wears

e) A policeman who investigates serious crime is called a _ ___, not uniform.

f) In some countries murderers are executed but other countries have abolished the

F. Sentences

before; in; to; of; with.

a) He's being kept__

b) He was sentenced

c) She got a sentence

d) He was accused_

custody.

___five years.

six months.

murder, theft.

handcuffs.

e) She's been charged____

f) He appeared____court______

g) They were brought_____the judge.

h) The jury reached a verdict_____guilty.

Just for Fun

A beautiful blonde walked into a Chicago police station and gave the desk sergeant a detailed description of a man who had dragged her by the hair down three flights of stairs, threatened to choke her to death and finally beat her up.

"With this description we'll have him arrested in no time," said the desk sergeant.

"But I don't want him arrested", the young woman protested. "Just find

him for me. He promised to marry me."

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A man sentenced to death was being taken to the execution place in very nasty weather.

"What lousy weather", he remarked.

"You are not the one to grumble", commented one of the escort.

"We've got yet to go back".

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After an incident in Croydon involving a prison van and a concrete mixer, police are looking for eighteen hardened criminals.

The Two Ronies, BBC TV

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Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

O.K. Chesterton, The Man Who was Thursday, 1908

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Eth: A professional burglar! Mr. Glum, you told me Ron's Uncle Charlie was a biologist.

Mr. Glum: All I said was, he studies cell structures.

* F.Muir, D. Nor den, The Glums,

London Weekend TV, 1978

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Murder is always a mistake... One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

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Eric: It was the corpse. He had a gun in his hand and a knife

in his back. Who d'you think poisoned him?

Erine: Who?

Eric: Nobody. He'd been strangled!

E.Morecambe, E. Wise,

The Morecambe and Wise Joke Book, 1979

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Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence.

Storry's principle of criminal indictment

The degree of guilt is directly proportional to the intensity of the denial.

Glossary

accident (n) -1. an unusual, unexpected or unforeseen event

2. calamity, casualty, catastrophe, disaster.

3. any unpleasant or unfortunate occurrence that causes injury, loss, suffering or death.

accomplice (n)-one who helps a criminal in a criminal act. accuse (v) - see Ch.I. appoint (v) - see Ch.I.

arson (n) - the criminal act of setting fire to property in order to cause destruction.

- arsonist. ^v

assassinate (v) -to murder sb. for political reasons or a reward.

assassin (n) - one who murders sb. for a reward or political reasons.

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assassination (n). assault (n) -1. a violent physical or verbal attack.

2. an attempt to do or immediate threat of doing unlawful personal

violence.

-assault (v). bail (n) (bond) - money paid by the accused to be released from custody

until the trial.

burglar (n) - one who breaks into houses or other buildings to steal. capital punishment - See Ch.IV. cell (n) - a small room in prison for one or more inmates. commit (v) - see Ch.I. community service (n) - unpaid work for the benefit of the community

done by the offender as punishment. compulsory (adj) - obligatory, mandatory, enforced. crime (n) - violation of law, a grave offence. criminal - see Ch. I. custody (n) - confinement or imprisonment.

- police ~.

- legal ~.

- detain in ~.

- keep in ~. damage(s) (n) - see Ch.IV.

detain (v) - to hold or retain in custody.

- detention (n).

- preventive detention.

detainee (n)- a person held in custody, esp. for political reasons. detective (n) - a policeman or other person engaged in investigating crimes or getting information that is not readily accessible.

- private ~.

deterrent (n) - anything which impedes or has a tendency to prevent

(e.g. punishment is a deterrent to crime). embezzle (v) - to appropriate (e.g. property entrusted to one's care)

fradulently to one's own use.

- embezzlement(n). enquiry (n) - see inquiry.

execute (v) - 1. to put completely into effect.

2. to put to death (legally) as punishment.

execution (n) - 1. putting into force.

2. putting to death as punishment. felony (n) - see Ch. IV. fine (v) - to sentence a person convicted of an offense to pay a penalty in

money.

fine (n) т 1. a sum payable as punishment for an offense.

2. a forfeiture or penalty paid to an injured party in a civil action. fingerprints (n) - impression of the lines of a fingertip taken for

purposes of identification. forge (v) - to fabricate by false imitation, to counterfeit.

— a cheque, document, money, signature.

-forger (n)^

forgery (n) - 1. act of making a false or counterfeit document, money,

etc.

2. forged document, banknote, etc. fraud (n) - 1. sth. that is not what it seems to be.

2. anything intentionally calculated to deceive.

-fraudulent (adj). guard (v) - 1. to protect from danger, to make secure.

2. to watch over so as to prevent escape, entry, theft, etc.

guard (n) - a person or a body of men whose duty is to protect a

place, people, etc.

- bodyguard (n).

- safeguard (n). guilty (adj) - see Ch.I.

handcuffs (n) - a pair of metal rings connected by a chain for locking

round criminal's wrists.

handcuff(\).

homicide (n) - the act of killing a human being. illegal (adj) - not authorized by law. imprison (v) - to put into prison.

imprisonment (n), life ~. inquest (n) - judicial inquiry, esp. by a coroner, into the cause of a

sudden, unnatural or unusual death. inquire (v) (into) (also enquire) - to request for information, to

investigate.

- inquiry (n) (also enquiry). * ~ agent (n) - private detective.

investigate (v) -1. to make a systematic examination or study. 2. to conduct an official inquiry.

- ~ a case, a crime.

- investigator (n).

- investigation (n).

kidnap (v) - to seize or detain a person by force and often for ransom.

- kidnapper (n).

- kidnapping (n).

lawbreaker (n) - a person who violates the law.

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manslaughter (n) - the unlawful killing of a human without any malicious intent or deliberation, which may be involuntary, in the commission of a lawful act without due caution.

misdemeanor (n) - see Ch.IV.

mug (v) - to assault, esp. in the street with indent to rob.

- mugger (n).

murder (v) - to kill (sb.) unlawfully and intentionally.

- to commit ~.

- murderer (n).

- murder (n).

oath (n) - a solemn promise to tell the truth.

- to administer an ~.

- to take an ~.

- on/under ~

offence (n) - (US: offense) - see Ch.I.

penalty (n) - punishment legally imposed or incurred.

death ~ - capital punishment. pickpocket (n) - one who steals from pockets or bags. probation (n) - a method of dealing with (young) offenders by which a

sentence is suspended.

- put on ~.

- probationer - an offender on probation.

- ~ officer - an officer appointed to supervise the conduct of offenders on probation.

punish (v) - to impose a penalty on (an offender) or for (an offense).

- punishment

- capital ~

- corporal ~.

rape (n) - the crime of forcing sb., esp. a woman to have sexual

intercourse against her/ his will.

release (v) - to set free from restraint, confinement or servitude. rob (v) - to steal sth. from (a person or place), esp. by violence or threat.

- robber (n).

- robbery (n).

sentence (n) - the judgment formally pronounced by the court or judge upon the defendant after his conviction in a criminal prosecution, imposing the punishment to be inflicted.

- life ~.

- suspended ~. -pass a ~.

- receive ~.

- serve ~.

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- sustain ~.

shop-lifter (n) - one who steals from the shops. stab (v) - to pierce or wound with a pointed weapon. theft (n) - the act of stealing.

thief (n) - one who steals, esp. secretly and without violence. vandal (n) - one who willfully or ignorantly destroys or defaces (public) property.

- vandalism. verdict (n) - see Ch.IV. violence (n) - see Ch.I.

warden (n) - an official charged with special supervisory duties or with the enforcement of specified laws or regulations. -traffic-

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Reader

Part I. Famous Lives. Crime and Justice..............................................164

Part II. Law Stories...............................................................................181

Part III. Tom Sawyer Testifies..............................................................192

Parti FAMOUS LIVES. CRIME AND JUSTICE

Read the following stories and do the exercises