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Crime vocabulary

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  • Responsible for committing a crime or another wrong act
    Guilty
  • A sign or some information that helps you to find the answer to a problem, question, or mystery
    Clue
  • To discover something secret or hidden
    Uncover
  • Taking someone away by force, often demanding money for their safe return
    Kidnapping
  • Stealing large amounts of money with force or violence from a bank, store, etc.
    Robbery
  • Killing someone on purpose
    Murder
  • A person who has been attacked, injured, robbed or killed by someone else
    Victim
  • A public officer authorized to hear and decide cases in a court of law, who makes decisions on legal issues
    Judge
  • Not guilty of a crime
    Innocent
  • Stealing something from a store
    Shoplifting
  • Breaking into a house in order to steal something
    Burglary
  • A person whose job is to find information about something or someone
    Detective
  • Someone who intentionally kills another person
    Murderer
  • Doing something illegal that can be punished by law
    Crime
  • A group of people who have been chosen to listen to all the facts in a trial in a law court and to decide if a person is guilty or not guilty
    Jury
  • The location where a crime has happened
    Crime scene
  • To try and find out the facts about something, such as a crime or accident in order to learn how it happened
    Investigate
  • Attacking someone with a plan to rob them
    Mugging