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Vocabulary-4 : Social tensions Flashcards

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Une politique de l’immigration

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An immigration policy

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Immigration choisie

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Selective/controlled immigration

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Flux migratoires

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Migration flows

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Un étranger

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A foreigner

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Un clandestin

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An illegal immigrant

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Un demandeur d’asile

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An asylum seeker

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Un pays d’accueil

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A host country

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Une vague d’immigration

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A wave of immigrants

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Immigration de masse

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Large-scale/Mass immigration

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Un afflux d’immigrant

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An afflux of immigrants

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Fuir

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To flee

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La purification ethnique

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Ethnic cleansing

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Trafic des êtres humains

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Human trafficking

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Un contre-bandier/passeur

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A smuggler

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Passeurs d’immigrants cladestins

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People-smugglers

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Demander la nationalité

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To apply for citizenship

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Accorder la nationalité

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To grant citizenship

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Remplir les conditions requises pour obtenir le statut de…

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To qualify as

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S’intégrer parfaitement dans

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To become fully integrated into

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Un nouvel arrivant

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A newcomer

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Partir de rien

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To start from scratch

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Un autochtone

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A native

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Une situation tendue

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A tense situation

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Déclencher/Alimenter les tensions

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To spark/fuel tensions

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Sentiments xénophobes

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Anti-immigrants out

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Empêcher les immigrants d’entrer

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To keep immigrant out

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Mettre en place/baisser les quotas d’immigration

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To intruduce/roll bach immigration caps

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Traverser la frontière

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To cross the border

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Patrouilles de police frontalières

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Border patrols

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Prendre les emplois des nationaux

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To take jobs away from the natives

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Un bouc émissaire

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A scapegoat

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Discrimination raciale, sexuelle

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Raciale, sex discrimination

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Persécuter q1

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To victimize sb

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Etre victime de discrimination

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To be discriminated against

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Borné, à l’esprit étroit

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Narrow-minded/prejudiced

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Phallocrate, machiste, chauvin

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Chauvinistic

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Homophobic

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Homophobe

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Favoriser/attiser la haine

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To foster/fuel, hatred

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Une agression raciste

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A racial attack

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Les stéréotypes liés au sexe

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Gender stereotypes

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Harcèlement

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Sexual/moral harassement

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Culture dominante

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Mainstream culture

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Faire rentrer dans la norme

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To bring sth into the mainstream

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Des citoyens de seconde zone

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Second-class citizens

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Société à deux vitesses

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A two-tier society

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Fracture sociale

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The gap between the haves and the have-nots

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Le partage des richesses

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The distribution of wealth

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L’ascenceur social

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The social ladder

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Bas de l’échelle sociale

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The lower rungs of the social ladder

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Ménages à revenus modestes

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A low income household

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Les plus démunis

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The destitute

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Le mvmt des droits civiques

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The civil rights movement

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Mesures d’embauche anti-discriminatoires

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Affirmative action

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Des lois sans discrimination raciale

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Colour-blind laws

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Corriger les déséquilibres

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To redress imbalances

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Quelle que soit la race

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Regardless of race

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Sur un même pied d’égalitéque

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To be on an equal footing with

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Rendre plus équitable

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To level the playing field

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Avoir une réelle chance de

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To stand a fighting chance

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N’avoir aucune chance de

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Not stand a chance

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Le mécontentement

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Discontent

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Descendre dans les rues

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To take to the streets

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Trouble, agitation

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Unrest, Turmoil

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Une émeute

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A riot

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Déclencher, causer qch

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To trigger sth

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Se droguer

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To take drugs

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Etre accroc à

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To be hooked on

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Crimes liés à la drogue

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Drug-related crimes

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Le trafic de drogue

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Drug-trafficking

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Alcolisation express

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Binge drinking

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La boisson, l’alcool

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Alcohol, drink, booze

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Se soûler

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To get drunk

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Le maintien de l’ordre

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Law enforcement

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Faire respecter la loi

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To enforce the law

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Enquêter sur un délit

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To investigate a crime

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Patrouiller les quartiers sensibles

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To patrol sensitive suburbs

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Empêcher, faire de la prévention contre

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To prevent

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sévir contre qch

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To crack/clamp down sth

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S’attaquer aux comportements anti-sociaux

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To tackle anti-social behaviour

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Respecter la loi

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To abide by the law

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Respecter les règles du jeu

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To play by the rules

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Faire qch dans les règles de l’art

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To do sth by the book

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Enfreindre la loi

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To break the law

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Un délit

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An offence

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Un délinquant

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An offender/A delinguent

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Récidiver

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To re-oddend, To repeat an offence

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Commettre un crime

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To commit a crime

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Avoir un casier judiciaire

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To have a criminal record

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Attaquer,agresser

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To attack, to assault, to mug

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Un voleur

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A robber/A thief

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dépouiller qq1 de qqc

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To rob sb of sth

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La petite criminalité

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Petty crime

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Le vol à l’étalage

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Shoplifting

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La criminalité en col blanc

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White-collar crime

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Un voyeur

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A voyeur

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Le viol

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A rape

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Un meurtrier

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A murderer

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Mettre en état d’arrestation

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To arrest sb

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Accuse/inculper

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To charge sb

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Poursuivre qq1 en justice

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To sue sb /To take

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Un procès

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A lawsuit/A trial

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Juger qq1

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To try sb

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Un accusé

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A defendant

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Des preuves

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Proofs/Evidence

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Etre reconnu coupable de qch

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To be found guilty of sth

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Etre innocenté

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To be prooved innocent

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Une erreur judiciaire

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A misscarriage of justice

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Ternir une réputauion

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To tarnish sb’s reputation

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Réparer une injustice

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To right a wrong

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Une peine de travaux d’intérêt général

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Ac ommunity sentence

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Un bracelet électronique

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An electronic tag

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Liberté conditionnelle/surveillée

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To be on probation/parole

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Mettre qq1 derrière les barreaux

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To send sb to prison/to jail

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Un détenu

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An inmate

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La surpopulation carcérale

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Prison overcrowding

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La peine capitale

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The death penalty/Capital punishment

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Etre dans le couloir de la mort

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To be on death row

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Partisan de l’abolition de la peine de mort

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An abolitionist

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