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  • to ask for money from somebody so you don't give away their secret
    blackmail
  • drinking alcohol while in charge of a vehicle
    drink-driving
  • to take somebody and only give them back if their family pays money
    kidnap
  • the crime of breaking into and stealing from somewhere
    burglary
  • somebody who attacks another person in the street - usually to steal something
    mugger
  • copying and illegally using material from the internet
    piracy
  • the money you have to pay as punishment if you have done something illegal
    fine
  • a person who kills someone
    murderer
  • somebody who steals something from a shop
    shoplifter
  • The opposite of innocent
    guilty
  • the punishment if you have to stay in prison until you die
    life imprisonment
  • buying and selling drugs
    trafficking
  • somebody who paints on walls and burns litter bins
    vandal
  • the unpaid work you do locally as punishment
    community service
  • to say somebody has not committed a crime and so has no punishment
    acquit