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hi everybody and welcome back to top
words my name is alicia and today we're
going to talk about 10 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 uh 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 they are well i shouldn't say
innocent but they are 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 blah blah blah crime or
he was found guilty of blah blah blah
crime the nuance of guilty is having
done something bad 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 uh 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
okay in a sentence he was found not
guilty of the crime to plead to plead so
to plead is similar to to beg so to
plead means to humbly request something
it's this this is the image of pleading
like you're 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 uh i want to plead not
guilty for the crime of blah blah blah
so to plead
means to request consideration for
something so i want to plead not guilty
means i want to request 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 too in some cases so
he plead this is past tense to plead
changes to plead 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
uh 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 uh 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 uh 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 uh in many cases to refer
to slaughter houses where cattle are
killed like pigs and cows for example
so it has the image of like brutally
killing however manslaughter refers to
an accidental 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 uh juries that
is 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
not killed 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 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 u.s the supreme court the supreme
court is our well supreme meaning most
high the best the highest level
the supreme court where we have uh what
we call justices but those those are
essentially like they are
judges really they're the highest level
of judge in the u.s um 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 are of the city
or of the location where you are a judge
does that so in a sentence the judge had
a tough decision to make no oh that's
the end all right uh so those are 10
crime related words i hope that those
are useful for you keep an eye out 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 you
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