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Crime - vocabulary items

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  • rioter
    one of a group of people who behave in a violent way in a public place, often as a protest
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  • CCTV
    stands for closed-circuit television and is commonly known as video surveillance
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  • perpetrator
    a person who carries out a harmful, illegal, or immoral act
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  • deterrent
    a thing that discourages or is intended to discourage someone from doing something
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  • catch someone red handed
    in the act of committing a crime
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  • unpaid work, intended to be of social use, that an offender is required to do instead of going to prison
    community service
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  • make changes in (something, especially an institution or practice) in order to improve it
    reform
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  • commit a further offence
    reoffend
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  • the ability to understand and share the feelings of another
    empathy
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  • be more likely to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work
    rehabilitative
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  • possession of drug
    the process of having, owning, or controlling a medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect
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  • do something illegal
    break the law
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