Crime and Law English Vocabulary! - IELTS Essential Vocabulary!
Good afternoon, I'm Jim newsmen today's top stories
the Prime Minister has been arrested for trespassing through a field of wheat a
Kitten in London has been jailed for murder and is awaiting trial
Dracula the fictional public domain character has been accused of robbery. He denies the charge
This puppy from Liverpool has been sentenced to eight years in prison for tax evasion in a public statement made by his lawyer
finally Hercules famous for his impressive strength and amazing ABS has been found guilty of drug possession and steroid use
Those stories and more coming up after today's lesson
Than you're a criminal and I or another police officer will arrest you take you to jail
Then you'll go to court for your trial
Where a jury might decide the verdict. Are you guilty or innocent?
If you're found guilty, then you'll go to prison for a long time
Don't be a criminal. It's rubbish. It's hot. It's really hot. Okay
So if you do a crime we say you commit a crime
That's the verb which collocates to crime and all of the crimes that you'll learn today first
Let's look at the violent crimes when someone is hurt or injured
So the word for hurting or injuring someone in general doesn't have to be physical. It could be emotional -
You might also hear the word battery and in this case where someone is physically harmed there's a physical injury
It's actually both you can say this is assault or this is battery. That's the name of the crime
But very specifically there is a difference
Battery is when there is physical harm
That's true of assault. But if there is not physical damage not a physical injury, perhaps it's a threat
perhaps you had someone in another way with words perhaps
That is a type of assault and we're going to learn a few different types of assault in today's lesson
okay, let's say that he punches this guy and and
Without intention. He kills him. He only wanted to punch the guy he didn't want to kill him
when you kill someone without intention or perhaps
Accidentally that has a specific name
Manslaughter it's not gender-specific. It's for both male and female manslaughter
Manslaughter we don't say do a crime we say commit a crime in this case. He committed
Manslaughter okay with intention. Let's say you want to kill the person what's the name of that?
If you want to kill someone and you kill them the name of that crime is
Commonly it's called murder you commit murder. It's the name of the crime and
It's called homicide in a newspaper. For example
He committed homicide because it sounds more formal in
conversation if you're talking about crimes
You would probably say he committed murder or he murdered him
The next crime is about a type of sexual assault when you force someone to have sex
Believe your word is this or a variation of this in English?
the nearest word is violate, but that doesn't mean
To force someone to have sex that's different. That crime is called rape commit rape
So that's the name of the crime and it's the verb
That's not the only word confusion with this crime
The person who commits rape is not a raper or a rapper. No, it's
Rapist, that's the person who commits rape who rapes
The next crime involves setting fire to
places to things if you set fire to a place or a building or a thing
Arsonist the common mistake. I hear from students with that situation with fire
You don't say put fire on the house or put the house on fire new the verb is set
for example the sentence the arsonist set fire to
The house or he sets the building the car on fire
Two ways of saying it. Okay. The next group of crimes is about stealing taking something, which doesn't belong to you
In general when you steal when you take something, which isn't yours you commit theft
The name of the person is a thief
Commits theft of course, there are many different types of theft
If you steal something from a house shop a building or a person
With a weapon or a gun some kind of force
That situation is called robbery you commit robbery
He is stealing with a weapon with force with a threat. So that is called robbery
Verb is robbed. So a whole sentence could be he robbed the bank
If you enter a building with the intention to steal something this one is called
burglary and the person who does it is called a
To burgle which is a very fun word to say, but definitely don't do it. It's bad
Our next crime happens in the street in a usually a public place
When she wants to steal his money his phone and she has a knife
To mug she is mugging him the name of the crime
his mugging she committed a mugging and maybe you've guessed it the name of the person who does it is a
Mugger quick differences between these three for example you wake up in the morning. Your TV is missing
You were burgled someone burgled your house
Someone enters your house and they have a gun and say give me your TV you were robbed
So yet this could be he was robbed. She robbed him
It could be but more specifically in a public place in the street
This is called a mugging. She mugged him
He was mugged in the passive try to practice these with your own examples in the comments
So the next thing is maybe a more common crime that probably you've done be honest
When you steal something from a shop whether it's candy or a t-shirt or anything from a shop that is called
Shoplifting and the person is called a
Shoplifter the verb may be you've guessed it
It's to shoplift. It's a regular verb shoplift it in the past
Question for you in the comments be honest, I won't tell the police
Have you ever shoplift it you can be honest. You can tell me it's just you and me here. Tell me in the comments
The next few crimes are about stealing a vehicle
Taking control of a vehicle from someone else
When you steal a car when you take control of that car from someone else the crime is
Carjacking when it's a plane. It's
hijacking the verb is to hijack or
carjack the person who commits that crime is a
again, remember all of these crimes you would say you commit the crime not do the crime for example this
Person committed a hijacking not did a hijacking
If someone steals a person that crime is called
Kidnap and that's also the verb the person who commits the kidnapping is called the kidnapper
You might read or hear the expression
White-collar crime there's a TV show called white collar
What are white collar crimes? Let's have a look. The first example of a white collar crime is
This is when you steal money, which is in your care
For example you steal money from your company. That's embezzlement the verb
is to embezzle again a fun word to say only person is
True story. I used to teach a guy who's now in prison for embezzlement
Now taxes are annoying, but you need to pay them if you don't pay your taxes
Tax evasion. That's the name of the crime
The person who commits tax evasion is called a tax evader
The verb we would say this person
Committed tax evasion. The next one is about lying in order to get money
You know those emails you sometimes get where they write. Hey my uncle just died
he was a millionaire and I can share that money with you if you first
Send me like a hundred dollars or whatever. Of course this person is never going to pay you. This is a crime
That's also the name of the person who commits fraud you could say this person is a fraud
But fraud is not just for those emails
It's for anyone who lies or deceive someone in order to gain something financially or personally
a policeman stops, you says you have committed a crime and you say
Maybe just ignore the crime and I'll give you money. This crime is called
To bribe now, there's no one word for this person who commits bribery
We don't have a word for that. So an example sentence
He bribed the policeman also, you should know that bribe is the verb and the noun
You could say he offered him a bribe
For example, or he took the bribe or he refused the bribe?
There's bribery happen in your city. Let me know
I mean if you've done it don't probably don't write it in the comments, but does it happen? Let me know in the comments
let's imagine, you know, someone's secret and you tell them I
Want to tell everyone but I won't say anything if you pay me lots of money
It's called blackmail that is also a verb so
you can commit blackmail and the person who does it is a
Blackmailer, so an example sentence could be
He blackmailed him 4 million pounds to keep his secret
Okay, you know how the Mafia will tell someone who maybe owns a shop
Protection money and nothing bad will happen to your shop
This is a crime and this is called
Extortion when you take money from someone usually through force or a threat
So ya think the Mafia that's what they do the verb is
This guy I know there's a lot of vocabulary here
But remember the best way to learn the vocabulary is by writing it down making your own
Examples which you can easily remember. So make the examples funny or crazy or silly
They're easier to remember than the boring ones. So those are big crimes
what about the small crimes the small crimes in which you might have to pay some money or
Spend a day or two in jail. Those are called
Misdemeanors, those are the smaller crimes. You might just have to pay a little money a fine
You break damage or destroy someone else's property that is called
To vandalize and the person who does it is
A vandal so a common argument a common debate is is graffiti
Vandalism or art are they vandals or artists? What do you think? Let me know in the comments
Living in London can be quite expensive. So my other job selling sex, this is called
Prostitution the person who does it is a
Prostitute you sometimes hear it more informally as a
Hooker in TV shows and movies most commonly and again, that's a person who sells sex
If you enter someone's property or a restricted area without permission
Trespassing and trespass that's the verb you probably know that the person is called a
Trespasser so yeah, true story. Our prime minister said the naughtiest thing she's ever done was trespassing
She ran through fields of wheat when she was young
When a person commits a crime a police officer will put handcuffs on that person
Later that criminal will go to a building when they have to argue that they didn't do anything wrong
This guy is saying you committed a crime you did it so you are
Guilty if you're guilty you did the crime but you want to say no I didn't do this crime I am
I'm innocent. I didn't commit any crime. I didn't do anything wrong
These guys will hear your story the other side of the story. They are called
the jury they will make the decision whether you're guilty or innocent and
Also, this person will make a decision on whether you're guilty or innocent
This person controls the court. They are the judge we have a word for the decision that is made
the decision of guilty or innocent is
The verdict that's the decision and they don't say we
Decided you're guilty or innocent. They say we find you guilty or innocent
So for example a sentence could be
He was found guilty of robbery
Now, what's the punishment we can talk about the punishment?
So an example sentence could be
And he was sentenced to eight years
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