englika.com
englika.com
Главная Тесты Тест по английскому языку для юристов Вставьте слова вместо пропусков: act, aggravated assault, court, crime, criminal, federal, human, illegal, imprisonment, light fine, national, process, violation
1. The ____ process begins when a law is first broken and extends through the arrest, indictment, trial, and appeal. 2. There is no single criminal, or civil, court ____ in the United States. 3. Instead, the ____ system has a court process at the national level, and each state and territory has its own set of rules and regulations that affect the judicial process. 4. Norms and similarities do exist among all of these governmental entities, and the discussion will focus primarily on these, but no two states have identical judicial systems and no state’s system is identical to that of the ____ government. 5. An ____ is not automatically a crime because it is hurtful or sinful. 6. An action constitutes a true ____ only if it specifically violates a criminal statute duly enacted by Congress, a state legislature, or some other public authority. 7. A crime, then, is an offense against the state punishable by fine, ____, or death. 8. A crime is a ____ of obligations due the community as a whole and can be punished only by the state. 9. The sanctions of imprisonment and death cannot be imposed by a civil ____ or in a civil action (although a fine may be a civil or a criminal penalty). 10. In the United States most crimes constitute sins of commission, such as ____ or embezzlement; a few consist of sins of omission, such as failing to stop and render aid after a traffic accident or failing to file an income tax return. 11. The state considers others crimes only mildly reprehensible, such as double parking or disturbing the peace, and consequently punishments of a ____ or a night in the local jail are akin to an official slap on the wrist. 12. Some crimes constitute actions that virtually all citizens consider outside the sphere of acceptable ____ conduct, whereas other crimes constitute actions about which opinion would be divided. 13. For example, an 1897 Michigan statute makes it ____ to curse in front of a child, and a Nebraska law forbids bingo games at church suppers. Проверить
