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Charity- an organization set up to provide help and raise money for those in need
Shoplifting stealing goods from a shop by deliberately leaving without paying for them.fraud cheating
smb.in order to get money illegally.
Graffiti words or drowings especially rude or political on walls door or public places.
Alibi – proof that someone accused of a crime could not have done it because they were somewhere else at
the time it happened
Analyse – to examine something in detail, especially by separating it into its parts, in order to discover more
about it
Cell – the smallest basic unit of living matter than can exist independently
Charge – espacially of the police, to accuse someone formally of having committed a crime
Convict (verb) – to state officially, as in a court of law, that someone is guilty of a certain crime
Conviction – mehkumluq
Convict (noun) – a peson who is in prison after having been convicted of a crime
Detection – the process of investigating crime or wrong doing, collecting evidence and finding the criminals
Private detective – a person employed by an individual or company to gather information for them
DNA – the chemical at the centre of the cells of living things which carries genetic information
Forensic – connected with the application of scientific tests to the investigation of crime
Genetic fingerprinting – the process of analysing DNA patterns, which are unique to individuals, using body
tissues, such as blood and saliva, in order to find out someone’s identity, used
particularly to find out if someone has committed a crime
Get away with – to do something wrong and not be punished for doing so
Investigate – to carry out a careful enquiry or examination into the facts of a situation, event, etc to try and
find out the truth
Life sentence – a punishment for a serious crime given by a court of law, by which someone spends the rest
of their life in prison, or spends a very long time in prison without a date being set for their
release
Sample – a small amount of a substance, etc which can be used as an example to find out information about
the substance, etc as a whole
Strangle – to kill someone by squeezing their throat so that air cannot get through to their lungs and they
cannnot breathe
Suspect (verb) – to believe that someone may have committed a crime or done something wrong without
having proof of this
Suspect (noun) – a person who is suspected of a crime or having done something wrong
Tip-off - secret information given to someone in order to help them, especially information given to the
police as a warning that a crime is going to be committed