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Unit 7 Crimes

  1. crime / offence – serious / major / minor / petty

  2. to commit / carry out a crime (to break the law)

  3. a crime of passion / of justifiable defence; a crime against humanity

  4. to fight / combat crime

  5. criminal [ = lawbreaker / offender / wrongdoer]: first-time / petty / habitual / hardened / repeated (recidivist) / experienced

  6. to acquit

  7. to accuse of sth; the accused

  8. to charge with theft; on a/the charge of murder; a charge against sb; a charge of roberry

  9. to confess to

  10. to convict of theft; but: conviction for theft; a convict

  11. bail: to set bail at … / to release on bail

  12. to cross-examine

  13. custody: to keep / be in custody

  14. to detain; (n) detention; (n) detainee

  15. death penalty / capital punishment / execution

  16. extenuating circumstances; Op.: aggravating circumstances

  17. evidence against / for sb / sth; lack of evidence

  18. fine: to impose / give a fine; to get a fine; a fine for sth

  19. fingerprints: to take fingerprints; to fingerprint

  20. guilty: to be guilty of / to find sb guilty of sth / to plead guilty

  21. to imprison; (n) imprisonment: life imprisonment; imprisonment without trial; a period / sentence / term of imprisonment

  22. inquiry [= investigation / inquest]

  23. to carry out / conduct / launch an inquiry

  24. a delinquent

  25. juvenile: juvenile delinquency; juvenile correction institutions

  26. to punish (by doing sth / for crimes / with a fine); to be punishable (by)

  27. probation: to put on probation; probation officer; probation period

  28. to sentence to death; (n) sentence: heavy, severe, light, lenient; life sentence; suspended sentence; to serve a sentence

  29. to sue sb (for negligence)

  30. (law)suit: civil / criminal suit; to bring a suit against sb; to face a lawsuit; to win / lose a suit

  31. verdict: a verdict of guilty / not guilty; majority / unanimous verdict; to agree on / reach a verdict; to bring / read out a verdict

  32. intelligence services

  33. finance espionage

  34. to search one’s clothes

  35. a ploy

  36. to eliminate possibilities

  37. to merge with

  38. identification

  39. to have a motive

  40. the underworld

  41. to trail sb

  42. to be intent on / upon

  43. a routine search

  44. a perverted lust for violence

  45. to conspire against sb / to do sth; conspiracy

  46. a counsel

  47. to pressurize

  48. to take the blame

  49. to smash one’s way (into)

  50. to pay … towards (prosecution) costs

  51. secret surveillance operation

  52. to log down

  53. a raid

  54. to deal in heroin

  55. to torment; a tormentor

  56. to stab sb to death

  57. to provoke

  58. outrageous behaviour

  59. stern (punishment)

  60. a scuffle

  61. to be on the run (for robbery)

  62. to deter; deterrent; deterrence

  63. to reform

  64. to rehabilitate

  65. to clear up a crime

  66. to mark (time)

  67. appalling / barbaric

  68. sanitation

  69. to pay sb back

  70. to pay a lip-service (to)

  71. by and large

  72. to focus (on the outside)

  73. to appeal (for witnesses)

  74. to take sb prisoner

  75. to escort sb

  76. to be on remand

  77. to do sth at gunpoint

  78. (partially) clad

  79. to comply (with sth)

  80. an assailant

  81. retribution

  82. humane (attitude)

  83. law-abiding

  84. a thug

  85. to suspect sb of sth; a suspect

  86. suspension (of capital punishment)

  87. social misfit

  88. to pose as

  89. to lift a ban

  90. to ponder about

  91. to live on the proceeds of the crime

  92. to batter (to death)

  93. to be armed with

  94. to hold liberal views

  95. to take precautions against crime

  96. coordination of efforts

  97. voluntary groups

  98. to collaborate with the police

  99. to install security devices

  100. to make a civilian arrest

  101. to be trained in martial arts

  102. to have a clean criminal record

  103. to traffic in drugs

  104. to be alienated from

  105. to push smb onto the path of crime

  106. to root out crimes

  107. rejection of society’s standards

  108. a genetic disposition to crime

  109. family breakdown

  110. abuse: physical / verbal abuse

  111. erratic (discipline patterns)

  112. to disrupt

  113. truancy

  114. contempt for authority; contempt of court

  115. lenient methods of punishment: probation / juvenile aftercare / foster care

  116. to steer sb away

  117. to restore social justice

  118. an inmate

  119. behind bars

  120. to curtail personal freedom

  121. cooped-up

  122. to undermine

  123. to be unfit for freedom

  124. to treat brutally / without humanity

  125. to adjust to the positive values of society

Phrasal verbs

  1. to give oneself up (to)

  2. to own up (to)

  3. to take sb aback

  4. to let sb off (with)

  5. to set sth up

  6. to carry sth out

  7. to go off

  8. to seal sth off

  9. to break down

  10. to break out

Idioms

  1. to catch sb red-handed

  2. to keep to the straight and narrow

  3. poetic justice

  4. the punishment should fit the crime

  5. to take the law into one’s own hands

  6. an easy prey