I. Warming up

Part IV Criminal Law and Criminal Proceedings

Sure enough, there was nothing in the glove box.

It was valid.

Hearing this, the officer immediately called his captain. The car was quickly surrounded by police, and the captain approached the driver to handle the tense situation.

Captain: Sir, can I see your license?
Driver: Sure. Here it is.

 

Captain: Whose car is this?
Driver: It's mine, officer. Here's the registration.
Captain: Could you slowly open your glove box so I can see if there's a gun in it?
Driver: Yes, sir, but there's no gun in it.

Captain: Would you mind opening your trunk? I was told you said there's a body in it.
Driver: No problem.

Trunk is opened; no body in it.

Captain: I don't understand it. The officer who stopped you said you told him you didn't have a license, stole the car, had a gun in the glove box, and that there was a dead body in the trunk.
Driver: Yeah, sir. I'll bet he told you I was speeding, too.

 

Unit 1 Law of Crimes Section 1 The nature of Criminal Law

1. Read and comment on the quotation by Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797), Irish-born British statesman and political philosopher: “Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.”

2. Answer the question: What is the main task of criminal law?

3. Match the following English words and expressions with their Ukrainian equivalents:

to be tempted to   типовий злочин
to threaten with punishment   забороняти
conduct   на відміну від
archetypal crimes   намагатись розв’язати правові спори
disturbance of the public peace and order   призвести до шкідливих наслідків
to forbid   бути схильним до чогось
lead to harmful results   бути ув’язненим
unlike   загрожувати покаранням
to seek to resolve legal disputes   поведінка
to be incarcerated   порушення суспільного миру й порядку

 

4. A. Divide the following words into two groups:

- those in which the diphthong – ea is pronounced as [i:];

- those in which the diphthong – ea is pronounced as [e]

Lead, already, threaten, deal, peace, health, treating, death, least, European.

B. In the text below find the sentence with the word conduct. What syllable is stressed in this word? When is the stress on the second syllable?