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
shows and movies in the news as well if
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