CRIME AND PUNISHMENT Flashcards
A POACHER
is someone that catches or shoots animals, fish or birds on a private land without permission. (krivolovec)
A DRUG DEALER OR TRAFFICKER
is someone that buys or sells drugs illegally. (preprodajalci drog)
A ROBBER
is someone that steals from banks, shops, etc., usually planning them in advance in great detail. (tat)
A SHOPLIFTER
is someone that takes goods from shops without paying for them. (tat)
A THIEF
is someone who steals (usually without violence), theft. (lopov)
A TRAITOR
betrays his or her country. (izdajalec)
A DRUG ADDICT OR A JUNKIE
is unable to stop himself or herself from taking drugs. (zasvojenec)
A TERRORIST
is someone who uses violence for political reasons. (terorist)
BIGAMIST
is someone who marries illegally because he or she is already married to someone else. (bigamist)
A CONSPIRATOR
is someone who takes part in a secret plan to do something against the law. (zarotnik)
A CULPRIT
is the person blamed for for a crime or for doing something wrong. (krivec)
A HOSTAGE
is kept as a prisoner by a person or organization and may be killed if people don’t do what the person or organization are demanding. (talec)
AN INFORMER
gives information to the police in return for money. (informator, ovaduh)
A MURDERER
deliberately kills someone. (morilec)
AN OFFENDER
is a formal or legal word for someone who is guilty of a crime.
A PICKPOKET
steals from people’s pockets and handbags in crowded places.
A RECIDIVIST
keeps going back to a life of crime even after being punished. In other words, an incurable criminal. (povratnik)
SMUGGLER
takes things or people illegally into or out of a country.
A STOWAWAY
hides on board a ship or inside the plane in order to get a free ride.
SWINDLER
deceives others in order to get money from them.
A VICTIM
is someone who has been attacked or against whom a crime has been committed.
A WITNESS
sees the crime being committed.
AN ARSON
means to deliberately setting something on fire. Premeditated. Arsonist.
TO BLACKMAIL SOMEONE
means that you demand payment or another benefit from someone in return for not revealing improvising or damaging information about them. A blackmailer.