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.
DRUG TRAFFICKING
is a global black market dedicated to the cultivation of buying and selling drugs illegally. Drug trafficker. Drug dealer.
DRINK DRIVE
is an action of driving under the influence of alcohol. Drink driving. A drunk driver.
JOYRIDE
To go on a joyride means going on a dangerous ride with a stolen vehicle.
A FORGERY
Forger. The action of forging a copy or imitation of a document signature banknote or work of art.
to forge something
SHOPLIFTING
If you are caught shoplifting means you stole goods from a shop while pretending to be a customer. Shoplifter. To shoplift
THEFT
If you are accused of theft you were caught stealing. A thief.
CARJACKING
Carjacking is the action of violently stealing an occupied car. Carjacker.
EMBEZZLEMENT
If you are accused of embezzlement this is the theft of funds placed in one trust or belonging to one’s employer. Embezzler. To embezzle.
MANSLAUGHTER
Manslaughter is to kill someone unintentionally. Negligence, to neglect –> zanemarjaš
MURDER
Murder is to kill someone deliberately, to murder, a murderer, homicide is the crime of killing someone.
TRESSPASING
If you are accused of trespassing you enter someone’s land or property without permission. To trespass
TO SMUGGLE
To smuggle. Smuggler. smuggling. Is the illegal movement of goods into or out of a country.
PIRACY
Piracy is the practice of attacking and robbing ships at sea or the act of copying CDs, videos, documents from the internet.
PHISHING
Phishing Is the fraudulent practice of sending emails in order to reveal personal information (password, credit card numbers).
ONLINE HARASSMENT
Online harassment is aggressive pressure or intimidation, bullying.
COMPUTER HACKING
Computer hacking explores methods for breaching the fence and exploiting weakness in the computer system of network.
IDENTITY THEFT
Identity theft is when someone uses another person’s personal identifying information without their permission to commit fraud or other crimes.
BURGLARY
Burglary or breaking and entering. If you have been burgled somebody broke into your house and stole something. Burglar.
KIDNAPPING
if someone has been kidnapped. That someone was taken by force by somebody who demands money for your return. Kidnapper. Kidnapping.
HIJACKER
A hijacker. To hijack. If a plane has been hijacked, somebody took control of an airplane by force to make political demand (9/11).
TO ASSAULT SOMEONE
To assault someone. An assault. An assailant. If you were assaulted somebody attacked you (physically).
HIT AND RUN ACCIDENT
somebody did an accident and ran away from the crime scene
SEXUAL ASSAULT
If a person has been raped, somebody took advantage of someone against their will. Sexual assault.
IZREČI SE ZA KRIVEGA ALI NEKRIVEGA
• To plead not guilty or to plead guilty. (izreči se za nekrivega ali krivega)
OBVESTITI
to notify
BITI OBTOŽEN
to be charged of something
BORITI SE PROTI ZLOČINU
to fight crime
OBTOŽEN KRIMINALEC
convicted criminal
DOMAČE NASILJE
domestic violence
DOSMRTNA KAZEN
life imprisonment
TELESNA/FIZIČNA KAZEN
• Capital or corporal punishment
SMRTNA KAZEN
death penalty
TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY
to do away with
DELEŽ KRIMINALA
crime rate
CHILD ABUSE
nasilje nad otrokom
PRANJE DENARJA
money laundering
WHAT KINDS OF CRIME WE KNOW
violent
petty
organized
WHAT KINDS OF CRIMINALS WE KNOW
domestic convicted violent dangerous wanted hardened (utrjen) notorious
