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U N I T 9
CRIME AND JUSTICE
1.
Make sure you know the following words/word combinations and understand their meanings:
crime, to commit crime, criminal code, to deny/admit charges, to plead/to plead guilty,
criminal procedure, trial, conviction, investigatory phase, pretrial stage, suspect, witness,
seizure, to acquit, warrant, evidence, custody, prosecution/prosecuting attorney, grand jury,
judge, to justify, to bring charges against, offense, defense/ defendant, to take the stand,
burden of proof, verdict/ verdict of guilty, to pass sentence, sentencing, appeal/ to file an
appeal against a decision/ to take an appeal to a higher court, treason, tort, homicide,
punitive, larceny, felony, misdemeanor, legal perjury, battery, rape, theft, embezzlement,
robbery, arson, burglary, corruption.
2. Match the types of crime with their definitions:
1) larceny
2) battery
3) treason
4) homicide
5) felony
6) rape
7) tort
8) theft
9) misdemeanor
10) embezzlement
11) robbery
12) burglary
13) arson
14) corruption
a) the crime of hitting someone
b) the crime of murder
c) an action that is wrong but not criminal and can be dealt
with in a civil court of law
d) the act or crime of stealing
e) the crime of stealing
f) a serious crime such as murder
g) the crime of being disloyal to your country or its
government, especially by helping its enemies or trying to
remove the government using violence
h) a crime that is not very serious
i) the crime of stealing money or things from a bank
j) the crime of forcing someone to have sex, especially by
using violence:
k) the crime of getting into a building to steal things:
l) stealing money from the place where you work:
m) dishonest, illegal, or immoral behaviour, especially from
someone with power
n) the crime of deliberately making something burn,
especially a building
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