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Crime and punishment

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  • people who have committed a crime more than once
    repeat offenders
  • to make a statement of having committed a crime
    plead guilty
  • the crime of intentionally starting a fire in order to damage or destroy something, especially a building
    arson
  • the crime of getting money by deceiving people
    fraud
  • people who have never broken the law before now
    first-time offenders
  • dishonest or illegal behaviour involving a person in a position of power, for example, accepting money for doing something illegal or immoral
    corruption
  • the illegal act of taking goods from a shop without paying for them
    shoplifting
  • the legal punishment of death for a crime
    death penalty
  • a temporary ban from doing or using something
    suspension
  • the act of putting or keeping someone in prison or in a place used as a prison (one word)
    imprisonment / incarceration
  • a person who is guilty of a crime
    offender
  • the hearing of statements and showing of objects, etc. in a law court to judge if a pers (five letters)
    trial
  • to treat someone as badly as they have treated you (idiom)
    give sb a dose/taste of their own medicine