Homework: Guilty or not guilty?

This is when you have to pay money so that a crime you committed is not reported to the police.

• a ransom

• blackmail

• a bribe

This is a person who steals from shops.

• a shoplifter

• a mugger

• a burglar

This is to steal from a house in the night.

• to mug

• to smuggle

• to burgle

This is when a guilty person is found not guilty or when thieves escape with what they have stolen.

• to get away with

• to abscond

• to flee

This is someone who is claimed to have been with the accused to prove that this person could not have been at the scene of the crime when it happened.

• an alibi

• a witness

• an arsonist

This is a person who brings drugs or diamonds into a country secretly.

• an arsonist

• a bandit

• a smuggler

This is what a traffic warden gives you when you double park.

• a receipt

• a kiss

• a fine

• a punishment

A judge declares you to be this if it is what the jury has decided.

• unlucky

• guilty

• very bad

A punishment resulting in death!

• a corporal punishment

• a capital punishment

• writing lines

• life imprisonment

Although the court has found you guilty, you are free as long as you visit your local police station every day.

• prosecution

• persecution

• probation