# Crime & Justice

**Type:** Topic
**Words:** 35

## About

Crime, policing, courts, punishment, and investigation.

## Words by Level

### A1
- buy off — to pay an influential person to obtain a favor or stop their opposition
- let off — to excuse someone from a punishment or obligation
- work over — to beat someone severely

### A2
- murder — The crime of killing another person on purpose.; frequency rank 606
- evidence — Facts or signs that show whether something is true or real.; frequency rank 754
- crime — An act that breaks the law and can be punished.; frequency rank 856
- prison — A building where criminals are kept locked up as punishment.; frequency rank 894
- steal — To take something that belongs to someone else without permission.; frequency rank 1222
- pass off — to present something under a false identity so that others accept it

### B1
- jail — A place where people are locked up, especially while awaiting trial or for minor crimes.; frequency rank 1023
- victim — A person who is harmed, hurt, or killed by someone or something.; frequency rank 1085
- arrest — To take someone to a police station because they may have broken the law.; frequency rank 1097
- innocent — Not guilty of a crime or wrongdoing.; frequency rank 1183
- guilty — Having done something wrong or broken the law.; frequency rank 1197
- suspect — A person who the police think may have committed a crime.; frequency rank 1313
- suspect — To think that something is probably true, often something bad.; frequency rank 1313
- justice — Fair treatment of people, especially by the law.; frequency rank 1380
- investigation — The careful examination of something in order to find out the facts.; frequency rank 1519
- criminal — A person who has broken the law.; frequency rank 1539
- punishment — Something unpleasant done to someone because they have done something wrong.; frequency rank 2809
- theft — The crime of stealing something.; frequency rank 4681
- bump off — to kill someone deliberately, in informal speech

### B2
- trial — A legal process in court where evidence is examined to decide if someone is guilty of a crime.; frequency rank 1445
- assault — To attack someone violently.; frequency rank 2871
- burglary — The crime of breaking into a building in order to steal.; frequency rank 9422
- imprisonment — The punishment of being kept in prison.; frequency rank 10829
- rip off — to cheat someone, especially by charging too much money
- stow away — to hide aboard a vehicle in order to travel without permission or payment

### C1
- heist — A robbery, especially a planned theft from a bank, museum, or similar institution.
- vigilante — A person who takes it upon themselves to pursue or punish suspected wrongdoers without legal authority.
- prey on — to exploit people by taking advantage of their weakness or hopes

### C2
- filicide — the killing of a person's own child or children
- foist off — to pass something off dishonestly as genuine or acceptable
- mete out — to distribute or administer something, especially a punishment

### C2+
- nick — a small cut or notch; (informal) to steal or arrest