VOCABULARY. forensic судебный fingerprinting дактилоскопия investigation расследование

forensic	судебный	fingerprinting	дактилоскопия
investigation	расследование, дознание	maintain	хранить
identification	установление личности	conviction	осуждение, судимость
pattern	рисунок	match	подбирать под пару
surface	поверхность	clue	улика
latent	скрытый, латентный	identifying witness	понятой
fingerprint evidence	отпечатки пальцев как доказательство

1) What an important part in the investigation of serious crimes plays? 2) What one of the first significant developments was? 3) What in the 19th century was discovered? 4) What accepted in 1893 was? 5) What accepted was in 1902? 6) What now widely used as a means of identifying criminals is? 7) What do maintain most major police forces? 8) Why do most major police forces collections maintain of fingerprints? 9) What fingerprints with fingerprints in the collection are matched? 10) What the British standard of fingerprints is?

► Ex. II. Agree or disagree with the following statements.

1) Political science plays an important part in the investigation of serious crimes. 2) Any contact between a finger and a surface leaves a noticeable mark. 3) Criminals have the same fingerprints. 4) Fingerprint evidence was accepted in 1893. 5) Fingerprinting is used as a means of identifying victims. 6) Fingerprints are taken from known witnesses at the time of their conviction. 7) Fingerprints found in the collection are matched with fingerprints at the scene of the crime. 8) Identification by fingerprints helps find identifying witnesses. 9) Clue is an object or piece of information that helps someone solve a crime or mystery.

Ex. III. Restore the word order in the following statements.

I) Forensic science an important part in the investigation of serious plays crimes. 2) Any contact between a finger and a surface a latent leaves mark. 3) No two individuals the same fingerprints have. 4) Fingerprint accepted evidence was in 1902. 5) Fingerprinting is as a means of identifying used criminals. 5) Fingerprints are from known criminals at the time of their taken conviction. 7) Fingerprints found matched at the scene of tie crime are with fingerprints in the collection. 8) Identification helps by fingerprints find criminals.

Ex. IV. Translate the following words and phrases from Russian into English.

Судебный; улика; дознание; установление личности; понятой; латентный; отпечатки пальцев как доказательство; дактилоскопия; судимость; место совершения преступления; устанавливать личность.

Ex. V. Complete the following statements.

1) Forensic science plays... 2) Fingerprints found at the scene of the crime are... 3) One of the first significant developments was... 4) If the sets of fingerprints share... 5) It was discovered in the 19th century that... 6) It was accepted in 1893 that 7) Most major police forces maintain... 8) Fingerprint evidence was accepted... 9) Fingerprinting is now widely used as...

► Ex. VI. Choose one topic to speak about identification by fingerprints:

a) its history of discovery;

b) its usage.

Retell the text “Suspect identification by fingerprints”.