Put the following sentences into the correct order.

	Later, vehicles were set on fire, shop windows were smashed, and looting began.
	Many people also think unemployment and poverty can help explain the violence.
	The first trouble followed a protest by local people against the fatal shooting of a local man by armed police two days before.
	The protest, at first peaceful, turned violent when young people – mostly teenagers – started throwing bottles and stones at police cars.

Say whether the statements are true, false or not stated.

The rioting broke out during a football match in London.

The police shot an unemployed person.

The reasons for the shooting are still unclear.

On 8th August things got much better, because people calmed down.

Most British people were shocked by the violence.

 

Make word combinations.

1 to carry	a) on fire
2 a lack	b) officers
3 to put out	c) problems
4 social	d) of discipline
5 to set	e) a fire
6 police	f) bags
7 rubbish	g) guns

 

Put in the correct question tags.

1) The rioting broke out in England in August, …?

2) The reasons for the shooting are still unclear, …?

3) The protest turned violent, …?

 

Find the English equivalents for the following phrases and word combinations.

Носить оружие

Автомобили были подожжены

Витрины были разбиты

Бросать бутылки и камни в полицейские машины

Потушить огонь

Серьезные волнения

Безработица и бедность

Социальные проблемы

Unit 4 DRUGS & ALCOHOL

 

1. Read and translate the text. Create a vocabulary list on the topic.

LEGAL ASPECT OF DRUG ABUSE

 

By the end of century drug addiction has become a worldwide socially dangerous trend. Statistics is reporting the rise in drug-related crimes.

A lot of people today are involved into the process of illegal drug trafficking: they cultivate drugs or produce medical preparations containing drugs. Sometimes these people form organized criminal groups. This shows that there is a continuous blending process between narcotics and organized crime.

Crimes and other law-breaking acts which are related to drugs include the illegal cultivation of drug-bearing plants, the preparation, storage, transportation, trafficking, sales and theft of drugs, the use of drugs without doctor's prescription, and the violation of laws regulating the handling of narcotics. This also covers the situation when suitable conditions are created for taking drugs and those in which more people are forced to use drugs, or when people have to commit crimes in order to obtain means to buy drugs.

The law-breaking actions also cover various violent crimes that are not drug-related but are committed in order to buy drugs (theft, robbery, fraud, blackmail and others) and also violent crimes committed under the influence of drugs (e.g., hooliganism against individuals).

In sum narcotics are a negative social phenomenon posing a danger to society. This danger is expressed in the destruction of people's health as a result of drug addiction, drug-related crimes, the totality of which forms an independent crime branch (narco-crime), and the ability to turn the most dangerous and well-organized part of narco-crime into a variety of organized crime.

 

Put the following sentences into the correct order.

	Sometimes these people form organized criminal groups.
	In sum narcotics are a negative social phenomenon posing a danger to society.
	Statistics is reporting the rise in drug-related crimes.
	The law-breaking actions also cover various violent crimes that are not drug-related but are committed in order to buy drugs.

Say whether the statements are true, false or not stated.

1 Drug dealers are able to influence government policies, especially in small countries.

2 The danger which drugs represent is expressed in the destruction of people's health and in spread of drug-related crimes.

3 Statistics is reporting the fall in drug-related crimes.

4 Drug-related crimes are those which are committed under the influence of drugs and in order to buy drugs.

5 A lot of people today are involved into the process of illegal drug trafficking.

Make word combinations.

1 drug	a) phenomenon
2 illegal	b) criminal groups
3 drug-related	c) drugs
4 social	d) of laws
5 organized	e) addiction
6 violation	f) of health
7 to take/ to use	g) drug trafficking
8 destruction	h) crimes

 

Put in the correct question tags.

1) A lot of people today cultivate drugs or produce medical preparations containing drugs, …?

2) Drug addiction has become a worldwide socially dangerous trend, …?

3) There is a continuous blending process between narcotics and organized crime, …?

 

Find the English equivalents for the following phrases and word combinations.

Наркотическая зависимость

Преступления, связанные с наркотиками (2)

Незаконный оборот наркотиков

Организованные преступные группировки / организованная преступность

Нарушение законов

Совершать преступления

Влияние наркотиков

Unit 5 AT THE STATION

 

1. Read and translate the text. Create a vocabulary list on the topic.

 

AT THE POLICE STATION

 

An arrested person must be taken to a police station as soon as possible after arrest. At the station, he will be seen by the custody officer who will consider the reasons for the arrest. The Code of Practice under the 1984 Police and Criminal Evidence Act made it clear that juveniles should not be placed in the cells. Most police stations should have a detention room for juveniles. The suspect has a right to speak to a solicitor free of charge and to tell a relative about his or her arrest. Where a person has been arrested in connection with a serious arrestable offence, but has not yet been charged, the police may delay the exercise of these rights for up to 36 hours in the interests of the investigation.

A suspect may refuse to answer police questions or to give evidence in court because he or she has 'right to silence'. The police must ensure that people understand the possible consequences if they answer questions or stay silent.

Questions relating to an offence may not normally be put to a person after he or she has been charged with that offence or informed that he or she may be prosecuted for it.

The length of time a suspect is held in police custody before charge is strictly regulated. For lesser offences this may not exceed 24 hours. A person suspected of committing a serious arrestable offence can be detained for up to 96 hours without charge but beyond 36 hours only if a warrant is obtained from a magistrates' court.

Reviews must be made of a person's detention at regular intervals to check whether the criteria for detention are still satisfied. If they are not, the person must be released immediately.

 

 

Put the following sentences into the correct order.

	The police must ensure that people understand the possible consequences if they answer questions or stay silent.
	A person suspected of committing a serious arrestable offence can be detained for up to 96 hours without charge.
	An arrested person must be taken to a police station as soon as possible after arrest.
	A suspect may refuse to answer police questions or to give evidence in court because he or she has 'right to silence'.

 

3. Say whether the statements are true, false or not stated.

An arrested person must be taken to a police station as soon as possible after arrest.

Juveniles are teenagers under 14 years old.

A suspect cannot refuse to answer police questions.

A new form of police caution was adopted in London in 1984.

The length of time a suspect is held in police custody before charge is strictly regulated.

Most police stations should have a detention room for juveniles.

 

Make word combinations.

1 to give	a) station
2 police	b) room
3 to place	c) to silence
4 a police	d) offence
5 a detention	e) evidence
6 arrestable	f) in the cell
7right	g) custody

 

Put in the correct question tags.

1) A suspected person can be detained for up to 96 hours without charge, …?

2) An arrested person must be taken to a police station, …?

3) The custody officer will consider the reasons for the arrest, …?

 

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