Compare and contrast these two

pictures. In your description, answer

the following questions:

 What is the relationship between the

pictures?
 What crime do you think the man
behind the bars has committed?
 What crime do you find the most/
least serious? Why?
 What makes people criminals (social
background, education, personality,
etc)?
 What crimes are the most common in
your country?
 What role do detectives/the police/
lawyers/law courts play in criminal
investigation?
 How does jurisdiction work in your
country?
 Do you approve of capital
punishment? Why/why not?
 How can people with criminal records
adjust to life after they are released?

Word Bank

 commit a crime: pick-pocketing, theft,

shoplifting, burglary, robbery, mugging,
money laundering, embezzlement,
blackmail, white collar/organized/war
crime, hit and run accident, drink-
driving, manslaughter, homicide,
murder, assassination, drug trafficking,
smuggling, kidnapping, hijacking,
vandalism, hooliganism, sexual assault,
juvenile delinquency, arson
 break the law, get away with a crime,
escape, hide from the police, establish/
prove an alibi, give oneself up
 investigate, collect evidence, arrest,
accuse sby of a crime, witness a crime,
eye-witness, take legal action/a case to
court, charge sby with sthg, come on for
trial, court room, counsel for the
defence, jury, judge, lawyer, plead
guilty, return a verdict, sentence sby to
5 years in prison, receive a life sentence/
capital punishment/death penalty
 be on probation, get pardon/amnesty,
serve one’s time, struggle to find a
job/housing, recidivist/ habitual criminal

Crime and Justice