Crime Vocab

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

• ransom

• blackmail

• bribe

This is a person who steals from shops.

• robber

• mugger

• shoplifter

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 a a claim or piece of evidence that one was elsewhere when an act, typically a criminal one, is alleged to have taken place.

• alibi

• witness

• arsonist

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

• Arsonist

• bandit

• smuggler

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

• A bill

• A receipt

• A fine

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

• Unlucky

• guilty

• criminal

A punishment resulting in death!

• capital punishment

• corporal punishment

• life-long imprisonment

the action of demanding payment or another benefit from someone in return for not revealing compromising or damaging information about them.

• bribe

• blackmail

• kidnap