IV. Read the text Forms of Custodial Sentences carefully and find the information you need to complete the table below.

V. Scan the extracts Modern Prison Reform and Community Sentences to find the following information:

1. the names of the organisations that are mainly concerned with prison reform;

2. which organisation provides concerts for prisoners;

3. the name of the sentences where the offender is allowed to remain free in the community;

4. if all community sentences may be imposed without the agreement of the offender;

5. the names of the best known community orders (requirments) under the Criminal Justice Act 2003;

6. the type of work offenders on community punishment are ordered to do;

7. the names of special programmes designed to reduce offending;

VI. Read the text Community Sentences carefully and find the information to complete the table below.

Community Sentences.

VII.Read all the texts again and decide whether the following statements are true or false. Explain why.

1. Before making an order for payment the court must first enquire into the offender’s financial situation.

2. Orders of conditional discharge are widely used in the magistrates’

courts for minor crimes and first offenders.

3. Curfew orders are designed to confine the offenders to certain places at certain times of day.

4. All sentences of disqualification are mandatory.

5. The drug treatment and testing order forms part of a community order because it requires drugs misusers to undergo treatment for their problem.

6. Reparation orders are made to help the offender and his victim to settle their differences

7. peacefully.

8. Parliament decides what sentences must be imposed.

9. The Court of Appeal may increase any sentence passed by the Crown

Court.

Vocabulary Work

Exercises

I. Suggest Russian equivalents of the following expressions and use them in your own sentences.

1. deter from re-offending; 2. take the law into one’s own hands; 3. go straight; 4. commit a crime ‘in cold blood’; 5. convicted of burglary of office premises; 6. dismiss an appeal; 7. impose a whole life sentence on a violent offender; 8. refer a case to the Attorney-General; 9. meet a supervision order;

10. bring to justice; 11. dispose of a criminal case; 12. complete a community sentence; 13. length of sentence; 14. supervise a parenting order; 15. unduly lenient sentence; 16. repair damage; 17. mitigating circumstances; 18. record of offending; 19. punishment as a deterrent; 20. revoke a curfew order;

21. confine offenders; 22. review a decision.