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The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 9 - Crime for the textbook New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Araminta Crace and Richard Acklam from Pearson Education

Question

Work in pairs and check you know the meaning of the underlined words / phrases.

Answer

  • victim = someone who has been hurt or killed because of a crime
  • criminals = people who commit crimes
  • punishments = legal consequences of a crime
  • community service = a non-custodial punishment involving helping people or improving the environment
  • suspect = someone the police think might have committed a particular crime
  • innocent = when you did not commit the crime
  • guilty = when you did commit the crime
  • witnesses = people who saw or heard something related to a particular crime happen
  • evidence = one or more reasons for making you believe something is true or not true
  • petty crimes = non-serious crimes suspended sentence = a period during which your punishment is not active, provided you do not commit another crime
  • prison = a place where guilty people are sent to live as punishment
  • graffiti = illegal artwork, usually drawings or words, in public places
  • vandalism = deliberate damage done to public places
  • forensic scientist = the person who examines the physical evidence connected to a crime

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