Crimes and criminals
Saying "hello" to your friend Jack but also the infinitive form of illegally taking command of a plane or bus.
What is "hijack"?
A criminal that commits identity theft by tricking people into divulging sensitive information online.
What is a phisher?
Is represented in court by the prosecutor.
What is a plaintiff?
The waiting time before an execution during which the person sentenced to death may often appeal for the sentence to be commuted.
What is death row?
To carry a gun, but also the upper limbs of a ferocious and furry animal native to Canada.
What is bear arms?
The criminal guilty of assaulting someone.
What is an assailant?
The crime of downloading trade secrets, creative ideas, or illegal copies of music files, films or books, software piracy.
What is intellectual property theft?
US synonym for lawyer.
What is attorney?
A synonym for imprisonment: A ... sentence.
What is custodial?
Terrorists use violence as a means to frighten other people = They use it as a means of ...
What is intimidation?
The crime committed by a spy.
What is espionage?
Three names for people who are up to no good online.
What are (internet) trolls, cyberbullies, and cyberstalkers?
Witnesses are sworn in before they give this.
What is testimony?
1. Execution is barbaric and morally wrong
2. Most murders are not planned in advance
3. Murder rates do not go up without it
4. An innocent person might be executed.
Four reasons why ... (synonym for death penalty) should be ...
What are four reasons why capital punishment should be abolished?
An adjective describing that there are many different opinions about a polarising topic.
What is controversial?
Three nouns that describe potential crimes committed by a killer.
What are murder, homicide, and manslaughter?
Three highly dangerous entities constructed to destroy data and software or gain access to other people's computers.
What are (computer) worms, viruses, and Trojans?
Because of these, a sentence may be reduced.
What are mitigating circumstances?
As an alternative to imprisonment, offenders may
a) have to do a certain numbers of unpaid work, they may
b) have to be at home at certain times and
c) get a device attached to their legs that lets the authorities know where they are at all times.
What are community service, a curfew order, and electronic tagging?
Mass shootings at schools make people demand a tougher ... of gun laws, and also to make firearms less ...
What are enforcement and accessible?
Four nouns that describe criminals guilty of crimes against property.
What are mugger, robber, thief, and burglar?
The four other types of white-collar crimes next to industrial espionage.
What are forgery, embezzlement, fraud, and bribery?
The jury returns a verdict of guilty and pronounces the punishment for the accused: The accused is ... and ...
What are convicted and sentenced?
Five ways of executing the death penalty.
What are the electric chair, lethal injection, the gas chamber, hanging, and being shot by a firing squad?
Drugs can cause
a) great happiness,
b) indifference,
c) sickness,
d) us to see illusions,
and many other things.
What are euphoria, apathy, nausea, and hallucinations?