Campus: Nezahualcóyotl

Bachelor's degree: criminology

Student: Fatima Lizeth Vasquez Calvillo

Tuition: 2122100355

Teacher Luis Eduardo Ochoa Diaz

Course: analysis of technical texts in English

Group:401

Exercise:2
Instructions

1. Read the next text carefully:

DEFINING THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF VIOLENT CRIME

Immersing yourself in the behavioral science of criminology involves analyzing the

tools and approaches for helping you, and society as a whole, understand and even
control criminal behavior. From interpreting the legal terminology of the various types
of violent crime, to examining the important theories as to why people commit
crimes, criminological research gives you the knowledge you need to follow crime
trends.

In criminology, how a violent crime is approached depends very much on how the
crime is defined. So many different legal terms exist for various forms of violent
crimes that it’s often hard for people to keep track of what means what. Following are
simple yet detailed definitions of some common types of violent crimes:

· Homicide: The killing of one person by another (regardless of the

circumstances).

· Murder: The intentional killing of another human being.

· First-degree murder: A term some states use to refer to an intentional killing.

· Second-degree murder: A term some states use to refer to an unintentional

killing in which the killer demonstrates “extreme indifference to human life” or
“wanton disregard” for the life of the victim.

· Felony murder: A term some states use for a death that occurs during the
commission of a serious felony, such as robbery or kidnapping. (All participants in
such a felony can be charged with murder.)

· Manslaughter: The unintentional killing of another person, where the killer

engages in reckless conduct that causes a death.

· Negligent homicide: The causing of someone’s death through negligence.

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Battery: The act of making offensive physical contact with someone.

· Assault: The threat of a battery, or an attempted battery, without actual

physical contact.

· Simple assault or battery: The act of causing someone low-level — not

serious — physical injury.

· Aggravated assault or battery: Serious felony conduct that involves the use
of a dangerous or deadly weapon or that results in serious injury.

· Vehicular assault: Dangerous driving that results in injury to another.

· Spousal assault (also called domestic assault or intimate partner

violence):Violence between domestic partners.

· Rape: The act of forcibly compelling someone to have sexual intercourse, or

sexual intercourse between an adult and a partner under the age of 18, or the act of
having intercourse with someone whom the law deems incapable of consent
because of a mental handicap.

· Sodomy: The act of having forced anal or oral sex with someone, or the
consensual act of participating in those same acts between an adult and a juvenil

2. What is the main idea of the text?

There are different types of violent crimes and each one has different legal terms,
the crime will be defined depending on how violent the action is and criminology will
give the tools to understand, control or prevent criminal behavior
3. Write 3 definitions that the text provides.

Rape: The act of forcibly compelling someone to have sexual intercourse, or sexual
intercourse between an adult and a partner under the age of 18, or the act of having
sexual intercourse with someone deemed by law to be incapable of giving consent.
consent due to mental disability.

Homicide: The death of one person by another (regardless of the circumstances).

Sodomy: The act of forced oral or anal sex with someone, or the consensual act of
engaging in such acts between an adult and a minor.

4. Investigate: What is “Relation of ideas”? Then, read the text again and
answer: What kind of “Relation of ideas”, do the text have? Write all of them in
the next chart.

What is “Relation of ideas”? What kind of “Relation of ideas”, do the

They are statements typical of the
formal sciences, They are divided into
intuitively true or demonstratively true,
their truth is formed from the
relationships between the different
ideas that make up the statement.
text have?
Type of explanatory and comparative
relationship: each type of violent crime
has its concept and explanation of the
facts, giving the differences of each one
Type of analog relationship because the
text gives importance to criminal
behavior and types of violent crimes

Type of general-particular relationship

because it explains the concept of the
main topic
5. Investigate: What are context clues? Mention and describe 2 of them.

The clues or context clues are the additional information that the author provides
you, in order to have a full understanding of the information in the text, these clues
can be found in the same sentence, the same paragraph or in any other part of the
text.

Examples:

Definitions: they usually go before or after the unknown term and provide valuable
and precise information that allows understanding its meaning.

Images: These clues can be photographs, graphics, illustrations and any other visual
resource.

Examples: they are used to explain in a concrete way the meaning of a word, phrase
or concept
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