E.g. murder – murderer
Offence, felony, misdemeanor, homicide, assassination, suicide, rape, molestation, arson, robbery, pickpocketing, theft, shoplifting, burglary, housebreaking, kidnapping, mugging, embezzlement, bribery, forgery, swindling, perjury, blackmailing, vandalism, juvenile delinquency, drug trafficking, terrorism, insider dealing, hijacking.
Do the exercise. Give corresponding verbs.
E.g. offence – to offend
Assassination, robbery, housebreaking, embezzlement, bribery, counterfeit, forgery, perjury, laundering money, hijacking, vandalism, deterrence.
Do the exercise. Cross an odd word out.
E.g. a. murder assassination perjury homicide manslaughter
b. offender lawbreaker swindler wrongdoer delinquent
c. robbery shoplifting larceny speeding theft
d. planned premeditated deliberate contemplated latent
e. swindle hijacking fraud trickery cheat
f. mugging defamation slander aspersion calumny
g. fabricate counterfeit forge falsify thwart
Answer the questions using essential vocabulary of the topic. Get prepared for the interview on the topic.
1. How is deviance defined? (What is deviance?)
2. What is the most obvious and familiar type of deviance?
3. What is juvenile delinquency? Give a definition.
4. What are the other types of nonconformity?
5. May physical traits be the basis of deviance? Give examples.
6. How does society attempt to bring deviant people back into line?
7. What is socialization?
8. What is a formal type of negative social control?
9. What institutions can exercise it?
10. What's your attitude to nonconformity? Do you view nonconformity as deviance?
Read and translate the following article using a dictionary. Answer the questions after it.
TV Violence can Cause Aggression In Children
by Christine Russell
Violence on television can lead to aggressive behaviour by children and teenagers who watch the programs, according to a review of the last decade of research on this long-debated topic.
«Television and Behaviour», a new report by the Department of Health and Human Services, concludes that the 'consensus’ among scientists is that there is a 'causal relationship' between televised violence and aggression.
«After 10 years of research, the consensus among most of the research community is that violence does lead to aggressive behaviour by children and teenagers who watch the programs,» according to the carefully worded update report.
Calling television a 'violent form of entertainment', the new report found that the percentage of programs containing violence has remained essentially the same over the past decade, and during this period «there also has been more violence on children's weekend programs than on prime-time television.»
The report cautions that «not all children become aggressive, of course, emphasizing that the various studies compare large groups rather than individual cases. But the latest research has expanded to suggest that preschool children as well as adolescents, and girls as well as boys might be influenced by the televised violence.
As a window on a world with which children have little experience television strongly shapes the social attitudes of young viewers. There is fairly good evidence that children accept as authentic the portrayals that they see on television.
Questions
1. Is there direct or indirect connection between TV violence and children's aggression?
2. What kind of entertainment is television called according to a report?
3. What children are more influenced by violent episodes on TV?
4. What does television strongly shape in children?
5. How do they accept the portrayals on television?
