Answer — Exercise 2
9 - Crime·New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book
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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