Top 10 Crimerelated Words in English

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Alisha and today we’re gonna talk about

ten crime-related words so let’s begin

suspect the first word is suspect

suspect as a noun please be careful not

the verb form to suspect though we can

use that suspect and suspect have

slightly different pronunciations as a

noun suspect means a person who may or

may not have committed a crime may or

may not have done something bad to

suspect someone means to be suspicious

to think they may or may not have done

something so please be careful depending

on the grammar suspect and suspect have

different pronunciations despite the

same spelling so suspect in a sentence

the suspect was seen running away from

the scene criminal the next expression

is criminal so a criminal is a person

who is convicted of a crime so to put

that more simply a criminal is a person

who has been determined to have done

something against the law they have done

something bad it has been decided by a

court of law or the governing body so a

criminal has indeed yes been found

guilty an expression we’ll talk about

later so a criminal is someone we know

has committed a crime in a sentence they

arrested the criminal on Wednesday

victim the next expression is victim

victim a victim is a person who suffers

because of a crime or because of a

natural disaster also we can use victims

for natural disasters and for crimes so

they are innocent they are they’ve had

no reason to be affected they’re just

maybe the wrong place the wrong time

either way there

well I shouldn’t say innocent but

they’re the person who suffers in this

situation a victim is the person who

suffers in this situation in a sentence

the victim was an elderly woman guilty

so the next expression is guilty he is

guilty of bla bla bla crime or he was

found guilty of bla bla bla crime the

nuance of guilty is having done

something bad and so if you are guilty

of a crime it means you have done that

crime but someone can look guilty we can

use guilty as an adjective to talk about

the way someone looks so guilty in a

court or guilty in discussing a criminal

case can mean he or she did the crime he

is guilty she is guilty however we can’t

say he looks guilty or the dog looks

guilty

that means that that person or that

object or that animal looks like they

did something bad but we don’t know for

sure so guilty means has the nuance of

doing something bad in a sentence you

look very guilty not guilty okay so on

the other hand not guilty not guilty is

the verdict so verdict is the word used

for decision in criminal cases not

guilty means not doing the crime the

crime was not done by that person so a

person who is found or determined not

guilty means they did not do the crime

or it’s been decided that that person

did not do the crime they are not guilty

hmm

okay in a sentence he was found not

guilty of the crime to plead to plead so

to plead is similar to too big so to

plead means to humbly request something

it’s this this is the image of pleading

like your hands together hoping very

much for something asking very humbly

for something but this is the verb that

we use in court cases in criminal cases

so we’ll say I want to plead not guilty

for the crime of bla bla bla so to plead

means to request consideration for

something so I want to plead not guilty

means I want to

Qwest you the court the judge whoever my

community you find me you consider me

not guilty I did not do the crime so but

we use instead of that very long

expression we say I plead not guilty

this is a much easier way to express

that situation of course you can plead

guilty to a crime - in some cases so he

pled this is past tense to plead changes

to pled he pled guilty to the crime of

manslaughter for example so in a

sentence the defendant pled not guilty

murder homicide so the next expression I

have murder and homicide here so murder

and homicide if you watch police shows

or if you watch you know movies dramas

which use like police and FBI and so on

you might have heard these words but

what’s the difference so murder and

homicide are used to mean the same thing

it means killing another person with

intention

so to murder someone else means to kill

another person and with intention

there’s a plan to do it homicide is the

word that is used in legal terminology

or in forensic forensic meaning analysis

of bodies analysis of like blood for

example of bacteria so kind of

scientific analysis of a crime scene so

in those cases in the investigation side

and in the legal side they might use the

word homicide perhaps more you might

also hear homicide in news but in

everyday conversation

murder is perhaps more common so the

defendant was convicted of murder the

defendant was found guilty of murder in

a sentence she was found guilty of

murder manslaughter all right so another

expression manslaughter this is an

interesting word

so manslaughter you can see the word

slaughter is there so slaughter refers

to killing something we use slaughter in

many cases to refer to slaughterhouses

where cattle are killed like pigs and

cows for example so it has the image of

like brutally killing

however manslaughter refers to an

accident

till killing so for example driving in a

car and just through some strange

accident maybe a person is hit by the

car and they die but there was no

intention on the part of the driver

there was no plan there it was an

accident a terrible terrible accident in

those cases the word manslaughter is

applied meaning an accidental death so

in a sentence this is a case of

manslaughter jury the next expression is

jury jury you may or may not have a jury

system in your country in the u.s. jury

system there’s a jury of your peers so

peers are people in your community

people in theory who are similar to you

in some way so a jury is a group of

people who makes a decision about a

court case you often have to give a

presentation to a jury so yeah you might

see these juries that have in movies and

in TV shows about crime as well

in a sentence the jury was divided on

the case meaning the jury did not know

how to vote yes or no guilty jelka judge

the next expression is judge judge so

again your country may or may not have

something similar but a judge is kind of

if you’ve if you’ve watched like u.s.

crime shows or whatever you might have

seen these people they’re men and women

who wear like these big black robes

usually and they sit high in courtrooms

above the other people usually we also

have in the US the Supreme Court the

Supreme Court is our well supreme

meaning most high the best the highest

level the Supreme Court where we have

what we call justices but those those

are essentially like their judges really

they’re the highest level of judge in

the US so they have a special word

justice but they are judges so they make

decisions based on the law based on the

legal rules of the country or of the

city or the location where you are a

judge does that so in a sentence the

judge had a tough decision to make no oh

this again all right

so those are ten crime related words I

hope that those are useful for you keep

I owe for these or keep an ear out for

these rather you might hear them in TV

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