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Task 4. Be ready to dwell on the following. 
1.
The importance of understanding crime nature. 
2.
Most crimes result from easy opportunities. 
3.
Crime prevention is our common concern. 
4.
Opportunity makes the thief.
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Text B. JUVENILE DELINQUENCY AND SOCIETY’S RESPONSE 
Task 1. Read the text and write down the Russian equivalents for the words 
and expressions in bold type. 
Childhood is a time of joy and innocence for most people; for others, life 
turns violent and so do they. Criminal acts of young persons are 
referred to
broadly as juvenile delinquency. In some countries delinquency includes 
conduct that is antisocial, dangerous, or 
harmful to the goals of society
. 
The general tendency is to limit the term to activities that if carried out by 
an adult would be called crimes, but in the United States since the 1980s 
juvenile delinquents are often referred to as “youthful offenders.” The age 
at which juveniles legally become adults varies from country to country, but 
it generally ranges from 15 to 18. Clearly 
the problem has
skyrocketed
: 
for example, in 1990 rates of arrest in California for burglary, theft, car 
theft, arson and robbery are higher among juveniles than among adults. 
Sociological research has established such bases for predicting delin-
quent behaviour as the nature of a child's home environment, the quality of 
the child’s neighbourhood, and behaviour in school. It has never been con-
clusively proved, however, that delinquency can be either predicted or pre-
vented. It is far likelier that delinquency is an integral part of society and 
probably part of the maturation process that some children go through. 
For the majority of young offenders, delinquency seems to be a phase 
passed through on the way to adulthood. Delinquent acts begin at about age 
of 10 or 11, though there has been