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Flashcards by Natalia Rasse, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Natalia Rasse
over 4 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| theft | General term for stealing |
| Robbery | Steal for people or places |
| Murder | Killing someone by intention |
| Shoplifting | Stealing something from a shop |
| Burglary | Stealing from someone's home |
| Smuggling | Taking something illegally into another country. |
| Pickpocketing | Stealing something that you carry without being noticed. |
| Arson | Setting fire to something in a criminal way |
| Kidnapping | Taking a person hostage in exchange for money or other favours, etc. |
| Manslaughter | To kill someone by accident |
| Terrorism | The use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes |
| Blackmail | To extort money by the use of threats |
| Forgery | The crime of falsely making or altering a writing by which legal rights or obligations or another person are apparently affected. |
| Assault | A physical attack upon someone else |
| mugging | An assault or threat of violence upon a person, especially with intent to rob. |
| drug-trafficking | The crime of selling drugs |
| discrimination | unfair treatment on grounds of sex, race or nationality. |
| Embezzlement | stealing money that is in your care or belongs to an organisation that you work for. |
| harassment | making a person feel anxious and unhappy(sometimes for sexual reasons, sometimes to get, say, a debt repaid) |
| insider trading/dealing | illegal buying and selling of shares by someone who has specialist knowledge of a company |
| joyriding | driving around for enjoyment in a car you have stolen |
| money laundering | moving money obtained illegally so that its origin cannot be traced |
| perjury | lying when under oath |
| Trespassing | go onto someone else's land without permission |
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