Crime

Freeze! You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can be used against you in court. You have the right to talk to a lawyer for advice before we ask you any questions. You have the right to have a lawyer with you during questioning. If you cannot afford a lawyer, one will be appointed for you before any questioning if you wish. If you decide to answer questions now without a lawyer present, you have the right to stop answering at any time. Now cuff him and book him. We’ll look into all kinds of crime on this week’s episode of FYI!

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have a call back for negative K nothing further just C on the corner FBI open up freeze you have the right to remain silent anything you say can be used against you in court you have the right to talk to a lawyer for advice before we ask you any questions you have the right to have a lawyer with you during questioning if you cannot afford a lawyer one will be appointed for you before any questioning if you wish if you decide to answer questions now without a lawyer present you have the right to stop answering at any time now cuff them and book them we'll look into all kinds of crime on this week's episode of f Yi welcome to for your info engl you got it you got it[Applause][Music][Applause][Applause][Music] hello hello hello Amigos welcome to another exciting edition of FYI and today we're going to take a look at crime we're going to tackle crime to tackle means abor let's take a look at our intro I started out by saying freeze and I think you can tell from the context what freeze means I think you say Alto in Spanish it means stop whatever you're doing and drop your weapon if you have one then I started to read the moranda rights I'm sure you've all heard this in movies let's go through it you have the right to remain silent anything you say or do can be used against you in a court you have the right to talk to to a lawyer and that's an interesting word cuz you can say a lawyer you can say an attorney and the British you know what they say they say a Barr and if you want to say AB Diablo then it's Devil's Advocate yeah I know that's a confusing one that's why I wanted to clear it up and be careful with the word advice advice is never advices it's let me ask you for some advice and the verb is to advise does anyone know the app Trip Advisor so advise verb advice noun you also have the right to have a lawyer with you during questioning another way of saying questioning is interrogation sound familiar if you can't afford a lawyer one will be appointed for you before any questioning if you wish CEO this is if you decide to answer questions now without a lawyer present you have the right to stop stop answering at any time blah blah blah blah basically you're under arrest you're busted these are two different ways to say caught B I guess it makes sense cuz I know you say deto in Spanish but you can also say arrest and thankfully I've never been arrested I've never been through the criminal justice system knock on wood I like to keep my nose clean I think we've looked at this expression before to keep your nose clean means to stay out of trouble and then I said now cuff him and book him and there's another way to say arrest him book him means bring him in bring him into the station to the jail to the police precinct and to cuff somebody is to put them in handcuffs you call them wives in Spanish esposas so are you guys ready to look at crime or look into it to look into is another way of saying to investigate to research as always we should start out by defining it what is crime or a crime unito in ordinary language a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority the term crime does not in modern criminal law have any simple and universally accepted definition so we can't really Define it it depends on each Society though statutory definitions have been provided for certain purposes the most popular view is that crime is a category created by law in other words something is a crime if declared as such by the relevant and applicable law another proposed definition is that a crime or offense criminal offense is an act harmful not only to some individual but also to a community Society I want you to pronounce that one with me Society or the state such acts are forbidden and punishable by law do you know the superhero The Punisher from the comics El casad well to punish is casad it goes on to say the notion that acts such as murder rape and theft are to be prohibited exists worldwide so translation there isn't a society where that isn't frowned upon and illegal in most cases and to be frowned upon means in Spanish Mal Visto what precisely is a criminal offense is defined by the criminal law of each relevant jurisdiction the state and I don't mean New Jersey New York Connecticut I mean El EST the government has the power to severely restrict one's Liberty for committing a crime remember we don't commit mistakes we make mistakes we commit crimes or hopefully we don't commit crimes and we keep our nose clean in modern societies there are procedures to which investigations and trials must adhere if found guilty an offender may be sentenced to a form of reparation such as a community sentence in the United States we call this community service this is when you have to do work in the community I think it's the lightest sentence out there it's what we would call a slap on the wrist and we're going to look at some really good idiomatic expressions in the bonus part we'll also take a look at tons of fun facts crazy laws that still exist we'll look at crime and pop culture we'll look at the dark side and that debate whether prison works are people being rehabilitated or is it making them into more hardened criminals the perfect example is you throw a kid in jail because he got caught with some drugs and now he's among rapists and thieves not exactly the perfect environment for a kid who screwed up for a kid who was just being a kid but we'll take a look at that debate later we'll also take a look at Capital Punishment and tons of vocabulary and idiomatic expressions I hope you guys join us in the bonus part if you'd like to join us there all you have to do is go go over to patreon.com Alberto Alonso and join my Curious Community once you're in you have access to this bonus episode and all the ones that came before and after and just remember that's a lot of content you can also get PDF documents every week with all the vocabulary expressions and structures and if you're in 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restrictions on Behavior have existed in all prehistoric societies crime in early human society was seen as a personal transgression and instead of having police or some kind of organized people to enforce the law it was the community who enforced the law and to enforce means to make sure people follow it so there was no formal legal system with a judge and a jury oh by the way there's a good idiomatic expression what are you judge and jury toos so sometimes it was the use of a custom a religion or a tribal leader who would enforce it but it was enforced collectively some of the oldest writings in existence to this day and I'm talking about criminal codes here was the code of uru namu and this Incorporated retaliation Justice with retaliation it was called or I should say is called the code of hamurabi and this has influenced crime across several civilizations how it's seen how it's dealt with also the Romans we can't talk about anything in this world without talking about the Romans it seems the Romans they organized their laws remember they tried to organize everything the Roads Irrigation so they were obviously thinking of laws as well and obviously the bigger the Empire got the harder it was to enforce laws or the more law enforcement agents you needed I imagine back then they were soldiers and commanders not cops in New York City with a big belly chowing down on donuts oh and you want a fun fact why are cops always associated with donuts Donuts well in the United States it was customary in donut shops for cops to get free donuts they would even have seats reserved so when they came they would always have a table and obviously the doughnut makers were doing this because if cops are eating in your restaurant nobody's going to give you any trouble and even when they're not there if you call them they'll come in a jiffy of course you got to give them free donuts so it's not a myth there actually is is a link between cops and donuts at least in the United States we'll take a look at more fun facts in the bonus part now a lot of things since the early days are still in existence today things like violence and theft being punishable by law well that's still something to this day and even if you look at the Bible Thou shalt not kill Thou shalt not steal I mean the Bible even had their own set of laws and China as well you can never talk about prehistory without talking about China they've had a criminal justice system for over 2,000 years and I don't want to find out how it works no thanks now many of the earliest conceptions of crime are associated with sin as we just said the Bible Thou shalt not commit adultery well back in the day adultery was considered a crime in certain places now I don't think it is anymore but the other 10 Commandments Mak sense no stealing no killing now common law was first developed in England under the rule of Henry II this was in the 12th century he established a system of traveling judges and what they did is they tried accused criminals to try means to put on trial to bring them to court and he would travel around England or better said he would send these judges to travel around England and try people and I guess that was also to send a message to people like hey if you break the laws we're going to find you it doesn't matter where you are they don't just apply to the big cities anymore and also in the 12th century in England this is where they started recording official crime data which now we know this is a big big big business crime stats analyzing all the data even when I Was preparing these episodes I came across a lot of statistics and we'll take a look at at some in the bonus part the astounding statistics of how many people are incarcerated in my country in the US OFA in the modern era crime came to be seen as an issue that affected Society rather than conflicts between two neighbors or two individuals writers such as Thomas Hobbs saw crime as a societal issue and this was in the 17th century that still exists today cuz if there's a lot of crime in a certain area obviously there are deeper seated problems the crime is always linked to something poverty lack of resources I'm not saying these are excuses these are just factors and I took a criminology class we had some free electives at University and it was absolutely fascinating I just remember you know saying wow I really chose the right class and that's because it was an early morning class I was half asleep but it was really really fascinating because when you study crime you're studying a lot of different things psychology sociology it really is a fascinating field and we're going to talk about criminology in just a moment but imprisonment developed as a long-term penalty for Crime around the 18th century and then with increasing urbanization and industrialization in the 19th century this caused crime to become an immediate issue that affected Society it was no longer you versus your neighbor now the state was going to intervene and around this time is when the field of criminology came about and obviously criminology is the study of crime it's a subfield of sociology and IT addresses issues of social norms social order deviance and violence as I said before it includes the motivations consequences and perpetrators of crime as well as preventative measures how to prevent crime from happening in the future or at least to lower the crime rate and so they do this by studying criminal acts they also study the relationship of crime in the community as we said it's a societal thing and that's something that Thomas hob said in the 17th century this isn't about an individual and as with all Fields there are a lot of differing opinions of what causes crimes what kind of people commit crimes how to deal with crime prevention and so on and so forth and something that's extremely popular these days is forensic science ever since we're able to trace DNA this field has blown up you can see it even in popular culture with programs like CSI CSI stands for crime- scene investigation it seems like society as a whole is obsessed with crime just go to Netflix half of the documentaries are about Killers or crimes or serial killers kidnappings you name it and I guess the mass media has something to do with this too because a lot of times we glorify crime we put serial killers on a pedestal by the way if you haven't listened to the episode on serial killers give it a listen but just look at Charles Manson the guy was as famous as Madonna and James Dean and so mass media knows this and they exploited they don't talk about nice things that happen they talk about crime and the more brutal the crime the more heinous the crime the better in media they have an expression that says if it bleeds it leads and to lead is to be the the number one story so now we have sensationalized crime and even normalized it it seems Ted Bundy another horrible killer and I've seen conversations on social media where they say oh he's sexy and he was even played by Zack Efron maybe we need to take a look at how we look at crime as a society and I'm the first guy who loves to watch you know mob movies and The Sopranos but I think everything should be in context I do not think kids should be seeing this stuff and we'll talk about that too we'll talk about violent video games and all that jazz but by the way you can learn some crimes and many more things from video games all right let me put you to the test how do you say Robo coaches did you say Grand Theft Auto yeah like the video game now this is a video game that I used to play but I would never ever in a million years give this to a child let's take a look at the different kinds of crime you've got felonies and a felony is the worst offense this is an indictable offense you've got an infraction which is also called a violation and then you've got a misdemeanor or a summary offense we usually call it misdemeanor at least in the United States and felonies are things such as murder things like that a felony is the most serious offense let's take a look at crime by categories and what I'm going to do is just go over some of the most common ones the ones you'll see in the media let's start with offenses against a person you've got assassination assault battery child abuse Criminal negligence defamation domestic violence harassment home invasion homicide human trafficking kidnapping manslaughter negligent homicide robbery stalking and torture H sounds like fun I'm just kidding guys then you've got sexual offenses in some places adultery is still a sexual offense you've also got indecent exposure Jim Morrison was arrested for that from the doors in some places homosexuality is a criminal offense public masturbation prostitution sex trafficking rape voyerism and the list goes on then you've got crimes against property arson arson means starting a fire on purpose a lot of times this is done for insurance purposes to collect the money you've got arms trafficking you've got blackmail bribery embezzlement extortion burglary forgery intellectual property violation leny looting pickpocketing smuggling this is medo Contra by the way all these words are in the PDF documents cuz there's a lot of vocabulary this week folks you've got tax evasion vandalism trespassing and Mischief again those are crimes against property then you've got crimes against the public that's begging that's right begging for money on the street can be a crime against the public so can genocide that's two very different sides of the spectrum illegal consumption of drugs or alcohol piracy and even war crimes again that category is crimes against the public crimes against animals cruelty to animals poach in poaching is illegal hunting Wildlife smuggling there's that word smuggle again beastiality this means fornicating with animals so there are many things you can get busted for I'll give you an idiomatic expression that we use we say crime doesn't pay and this means no let's take a look at a little fun fact before we get going over here the Chicago Tribune conducted a study and they found that certain crimes increase when the temperatures are higher and decrease when the temperature goes down crimes that occur most during hot days include assault shootings theft and vandalism so they believe that hot temperatures compel people to focus Less on the future and then they lose their self-control which then leads to aggressive beh behavior and violence so that's interesting I never knew that the climate the weather had something to do with crimes or the crime rate again there are many many studies and a lot of them are contradicting but that's what makes this field so interesting in the bonus part as I said we're going to take a look at the profile of a serial killer we'll also take a look at some fun facts bad boys bad boys what you going to do what you going to do when they come for you also crime in movies and music and pop culture and so much more and I'll wrap up by saying while crime doesn't pay we just looked at that no laa listening to FYI will pay off and to pay off is to be fruitful so now that you know both of those to pay and to pay off I'll give you the sentence again while crime doesn't pay listening to FYI does pay off off fros I hope you guys enjoyed the first part and I hope you'll join us in the bonus episode of this week's FY I[Applause][Music][Music]