Crimes

This WebQuest is intended to be an activity for second-year law students during their English classes at university.

Crime is a breach of rules or laws for which some governing authority can ultimately prescribe a punishment. Individual human societies may define crimes differently. Modern societies generally regard crimes as offenses against the public or the state. The word ‘crime’ is generally associated with wrongdoing but not every type of wrongdoing is a crime. Telling lies is immoral, but if telling lies is put into practice, resulting in physical harm to another, then such action becomes both criminal and immoral. 

 

There are some acts that are considered to be crimes in one country but not in another. For example, it is a crime to have more than one wife at the same time in France, but not in Indonesia. There are quite a lot of agreements among states as to which acts are criminal. But such acts as stealing, physical attack, or damaging somebody’s property will be unlawful in all countries and the way of dealing with people suspected of crime may be different. Sometimes government “creates” new crimes by identifying a form of behavior and passing a new law to deal with it. Different societies or governments often review their ideas of what should and shouldn’t be a crime. For example, race or sex discrimination hasn’t been considered a crime for a long time. In recent years the Internet has grown explosively and there appeared new crimes such as unauthorized access or “hacking”, copyright infringements, child pornography, etc. Cybercrimes may intentionally harm the reputation of the victim, they may threaten a nation’s security or financial health. 

 

Most crimes are not reported, not recorded, not followed through, or not able to be proven. When informal relationships and sanctions are insufficient to establish and maintain a desired social order, a state may impose more strict systems of social control.

This WebQuest will help you summerise all knowledge about different kinds of crimes, and punishments in our country. You will also try to check up on yourself by doing different online exercises. 

The first thing to do is choose a partner.  

This web quest is created in the form of a worksheet. It is recommended for the person partaking in this web quest to have a device with them to access the websites down below. On some of the websites, you are going to have multiple choice questions, matching, open questions, and listening worksheets.

The information that you will get out of this web quest will be very important in the future and you will have a better awareness of the serious matters happening around you.

Below you can find the list of types of crimes. 

Crimes Against Persons

Crimes against persons also called personal crimes, include murder, aggravated assault, rape, and robbery. Personal crimes are unevenly distributed in the United States, with young, urban, poor, non-white, and other historically marginalized groups both more often affected by these crimes and arrested for them than white, middle- and upper-class people are.

Crimes Against Property

Property crimes involve the theft of property without bodily harm, such as burglary, larceny, auto theft, and arson. Like personal crimes, members of historically marginalized groups are arrested for these crimes more than others.

Hate Crimes

Hate crimes are crimes against persons or property that are committed while invoking prejudices of race, gender or gender identity, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or ethnicity. The rate of hate crimes in the U.S. remains fairly constant from year to year, but there have been a few events that have caused surges in hate crimes. In 2016, the election of Donald Trump was followed by an uptick in hate crimes.

Crimes Against Morality

Crimes against morality are also called victimless crimes because there is no complainant or victim. Prostitution, illegal gambling, and illegal drug use are all examples of victimless crimes.

White-Collar Crime

White-collar crimes are crimes committed by people of high social status who commit their crimes in the context of their occupation. This includes embezzling (stealing money from one’s employer), insider trading, tax evasion, and other violations of income tax laws.

White-collar crimes generally generate less concern in the public mind than other types of crime, however, in terms of total dollars, white-collar crimes are even more consequential for society. For example, the Great Recession can be understood as in part the result of a variety of white-collar crimes committed within the home mortgage industry. Nonetheless, these crimes are generally the least investigated and least prosecuted because they are protected by a combination of privileges of race, class, and gender.

Organized Crime

Organized crime is committed by structured groups typically involving the distribution and sale of illegal goods and services. Many people think of the Mafia when they think of organized crime, but the term can refer to any group that exercises control over large illegal enterprises (such as the drug trade, illegal gambling, prostitution, weapons smuggling, or money laundering).

A key sociological concept in the study or organized crime is that these industries are organized along the same lines as legitimate businesses and take on a corporate form. There are typically senior partners who control profits, employees who manage and work for the business, and clients who buy the goods and services that the organization provides.

A Sociological Look at Crime

Arrest data show a clear pattern of arrests in terms of race, gender, and class. For instance, as mentioned above, young, urban, poor, Black and brown people, and historically marginalized groups overall are arrested and convicted more than others for personal and property crimes. To sociologists, the question posed by this data is whether this reflects actual differences in committing crimes among different groups, or whether this reflects differential treatment by the criminal justice system.

Studies show that the answer is “both.” Certain groups are in fact more likely to commit crimes than others because crime​ often looked to as a survival strategy, is linked to patterns of inequality in the United States. However, the process of prosecution in the criminal justice system is also significantly related to patterns of race, class, and gender inequality. We see this in the official arrest statistics, in treatment by the police, in sentencing patterns, and in studies of imprisonment.

 

arson - підпал

assassination - політичне вбивство

assault - напад

bribery - хабарництво

burglary - грабіж

carjacking - крадіжка машини

domestic violence - домашнє насильство                             

drug trafficking - наркоторгівля

fraud - шахрайство

hijacking - угон літака

kidnapping - викрадення людей

mugging - грабіжництво

murder - вбивство

robbery - пограбування

shoplifting - крадіжка з магазину

smuggling - контрабанда

terrorism - тероризм

theft - крадіжка

slaughter - масове вбивство людей

 

 

All the questions are down below, make sure you read the text on the websites and fully understand what they mean. You can copy the website URLs and then paste them into your web browser.

1. Watch the video. This video shows in a nutshell the types and variations of crimes and how they are categorized. However, each state's laws may differ in how they further divide crimes into categories and subcategories. Make some notes and share your opinion with others.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sue-iuVumiI

 2. Go to the link. You'll have a new experience learning words and phrases using flashcards. Choose the TEST option.

 https://quizlet.com/746160695/test

3. Open Wordwall and complete the following text with the words and phrases from the box. In total you'll have 15 points.

https://wordwall.net/resource/38125854/crimes 

4. Crime Sheet. Read half of the examples of the crimes on the paper and write (on a blank piece of paper) which crime you think it is. https://padlet.com/viktoriiabalyk/m82jrpdvx8afw1zt

If you have any troubles with Padlet do it below.

Murder, burglary, pickpocketing, arson, hijacking, theft, smuggling, kidnapping, mugging, rape, fraud, manslaughter, shoplifting.

a. ______________________  David Smith got drunk one night  and decided to drive home. As  he turned a corner he crashed into another car an killed the driver.	b. __________________ John James pretended to start a business and persuaded some people to lend him some money. He used the money to go on a holiday to the Carribean.
c. _____________________  Ronnie Tyler pulled out a gun from his pocket and shot the bank guard five times in the head.	d.___________________ Peter Short stole a computer from the company he worked for.
e.______________________  Vincent Tapper took a pistol and  ordered the pilot to fly to Miami.	f._____________________ Johnnie Smeghurst set fire to his school after failing all his exams.
g.____________________  Joe Sykes forced his ex-girlfriend  to make love with him.	h._____________________ Paul Winters and Jennifer Summers  stopped millionaire William Gates  outside his home and forced him to go with them. They demanded 30 million dollars from the family to free him.
i.____________________               Nigel Handy waited until night,       carefully forced open the window            and climbed into the house. He  took the TV and a lot of money.	j.______________________ Pete Murphy often went to the shopping center and took wallets from the people shopping.  The never felt a thing!
k.____________________   Anne Clinton walked around the  department store and, making sure no one was watching, put two   expensive watches into her bag.	j.______________________ Pete Murphy often went to the shopping center and took wallets from the people shopping.  The never felt a thing!
m. __________________   John Bottomless was caught at  the customs with $500,000 worth  of cocaine hidden the doors of his car.

5. Final activity for all students. Summerize what is the best definition to the word CRIME. Give your own explanations. Do you agree with them or not?

 https://wordwall.net/resource/38143212/law-english/crime-definition

 

 

Congratulations, you have completed your WebQuest. Did you do all exercises? In total, you can get 100 points. 

Task 1: 10 points if you do the test in Quizlet correctly

Task 2: 20 points for making notes from video and for sharing your ideas

Task 3: 30 points for 16 correct answers in the text from WordWall

Task 4: 30 points - for all correct answers in those short texts in Padlet

Task 5: 10 points for sharing opinions and emotions that you gain.

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In conclusion, your understanding of the crime should've expanded. Everything in the web quest is important information for your future career. 

I hope you'll be a professional lawyer who represents individuals, businesses, or organizations in legal matters. You'll help your clients understand their rights and remain compliant with local and federal guidelines, and you'll develop legal arguments on their behalf when lawsuits occur. Lawyers are usually responsible for tasks like:

Lesson WebQuest: Crimes

Time: 80 minutes

Materials Needed: WebQuest link, WordWall, Quizlet, Youtube.

Goals:  create comfortable, collegial atmosphere between students/teachers; learn about different types of crimes, explain each type of crime

Objectives:

Skills:

1. Confidence in speaking

2. Form and articulate opinions

3. Gain your vocabulary

4. Understand all definitions to terms

3. Answers to WordWall:

Crimes committed by business people, professionals, and politicians in the course of their occupation are known as "white-collar" crimes, after the typical clothes of their perpetrators. Criminologists tend to restrict the term to those illegal actions intended by the perpetrators principally to further the aims of their organisations rather than to make money for themselves personally.

Examples include conspiring with other corporations to fix prices of goods or services in order to make artificially high profits or to drive a particular competitor out of the market; bribing officials or falsifying reports of tests-on pharmaceutical products to obtain manufacturing licenses; and constructing buildings or roads with cheap, defective materials. The cost of corporate crime in the United States has been estimated at $ 200,000,000,000 a year.

Compared with crimes committed by juveniles or the poor, corporate crimes are very rarely prosecuted in criminal courts, and executives seldom go to

jail, though companies may pay large fines. Rather than being crime "by the firm, for the firm" this constitutes crime for profit by the individual, against the organization, the public, or the government. Tax fraud, for example, costs at least 5 percent of the gross national product in most developed countries.

Exercise 4. 

a. manslaighter

b. fraud

c. murder

d. theft

e.hijacking

f. arson

g. rape

h.kidnapping

i. burglary

j.pickpocketing

k. shoplifting

l.  mugging

m.smuggling

Thanks for your consideration!