I Vocabulary and speaking

A Recent crime in Poland (BiałaPodlaska)

 

· Killing in cold blood, premeditated killing, killing with malice aforethought

· Crimes of passion

· crime: horrific, abhorrent, shocking, abominable, hideous, heinous, revolting, sordid

· a crime of unspeakable cruelty, great beastliness

 

 

· brutality of the crime

· parents killed

· killers had no remorse

· killers were proud of what they had done

· no respect for human life

· mental instability

· psychopath

· the young age of the killers

· lack of maturity

· killing for kicks / the thrill

· the lack of humanity, moral values, no inhibitions

 

· motives: rejection of the relationship by the parents and anger, frustration accompanying this

Mitigating / extenuating circumstances:

 

· mental / psychological disorder

· mass culture with films Clockwork Orange, American Psycho

· a sense of superiority

II Popular crimes these days

1 money-related crimes:

· tax evasion

· downloading from the Internet and breach of copyrights

· counterfeit money / forging money

· fraud

· money laundering (changing the status of money from criminal to respectable)

 

2 origin of crime in human relationships:

· Revenge

· Love

· Rejected love

· Jealousy

· Envy

· Obsession

3 mental instability

 

4 crimes against the state

 

Treason

Espionage

Treachery

III Crimes brainstormed by group

1 perjury

 

2 kidnapping

 

3 manslaughter

 

4 trespassing

 

5 burglary

 

6 hijacking

 

IV Vocabulary of crimes: matching words to concepts

1 Unfair treatment on the grounds of race, sex or nationality or other individual preferences

 

Discrimination

 

2 Stealing money that is in your care but belongs to an organization that you work for

 

Embezzlement

 

3 Making a person feel anxious and unhappy (sometimes for sexual reasons, sometimes to get a debt repaid) at work, or outside the work setting

 

Harassment

 

4 Driving around for pleasure in a car that you have stolen

 

Joyriding

 

5 Moving money obtained illegally so that its origin cannot be traced

 

Money laundering

 

6 Lying when under oath in a court of law

 

Perjury

 

7 Going onto someone’s land without their permission

 

Trespassing

 

8 Demanding money from someone in return for not revealing compromising (sensitive/private) information about them

 

Blackmail

 

9 Betraying your country, especially by overthrowing the sovereign or the country’s government

 

Treason (high)

 

10 stealing things from a shop in a relatively unnoticeable way

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Shoplifting

V Evaluation of seriousness of a crime