TOPICAL VOCABULARY

1. Courts:youth courts, juvenile courts, criminal courts for young people.

2. Criminals:youngoffender, minor offender, juvenile delinquent, persistent offender, truant, drug trafficker,white-supremacist gang.

3. Young offender characteristics:to be genetically disposed to crime, to abuse alcohol/drugs, erratic discipline pattern, to cut/disrupt classes, to play truancy, to reject social values, not to adhere to smth, to make up for the failure,to create havoc.

4. Offences:automobile theft, carjacking, default in paying a fine,to traffic in drugs, drug trafficking, domestic burglary, rape, arson, indecent assault on a woman, sexual acts, staying out after a curfew, drinking alcoholic beverages, drugs/alcohol abuse, causing death by dangerous or drunken driving, to commit imprisonable offences.

5. Participants of the legal procedure:the Lord Advocate, sheriff, to remit the case to the reporter to arrange the hearing (about the sheriff),the children’s panel, the panel of three lay people, reporter, parents, juvenile offenders.

6. Legal procedure:to bring criminal proceeding against smb, to prosecute smb, to be brought before a children’s panel, to fall within the jurisdiction of youth courts, to have a discretion, groundsforreferral, remand home, community home, the Public Order Act, to attend hearings, an informal setting, to come before a hearing, to hear appeals against a hearing’s decision.

7. Punishment and preventive measures:to attend a day attendance centre, to be sent to a training school, to be committed to residence in a remand home,to go to theattendance centre, breach of probation order, local authority residential unit, local authority accommodation, young offender institution, to assume parental responsibility, curfew, through school counselling, confinement in juvenile halls, aftercare, fosterсare, temporary confinement, community service order, supervision order, attendance centre order, to live at home under the supervision of a social worker/ probation officer, life imprisonment, custody, custodial sentence, to servecustodial sentence in a young offenders’ centre, fines, compensation, to impose a secure training order on persistent offenders,death penalty/sentence,remission of part of the sentence for good behavior, release on parole, supervision on release,to be placed in care / under supervision / on probation.

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