To show a genetic link

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To put smb through the justice system

To join a gang

Crime prevention

Crime reduction

To behave badly

To learn good/bad behaviour from smb

Adoptive parents

Adopted children

Unit 12.2

Unit 12 Crime

Witness

1. to adopt smb - to take someone else's child into your family and legally make him or her your own child

E.g.: The couple are hoping to adopt a baby girl.

2. to balance risks against benefits - to create or preserve a good or correct balance between different features or aspects

3. criminal/anti-social behaviour

4. to make a career decision

5. to catch (caught, caught) - if the police catch someone, they find them and arrest them

6. cause of crime

7. to follow a life of crime

8. motivation for committing crimes

9. crime rate

10. to reduce crime

11. crime doesn't pay - said to emphasize that you believe criminals are always punished for their crimes

12. petty/minor crime - not serious

E.g.: petty crime such as shoplifting

13. to prevent crime

14. gang - 1) a group of young people who spend time together and often cause trouble

2) a group of criminals working together

15. income inequality

16. intentionally - deliberately, on purpose

E.g.: I didn't ignore her intentionally - I just didn't recognize her.

17. justice system

18. to lead a normal life

19. to be linked to

20. to make a living

E.g.: John makes a living from painting houses. Can you really make a living by selling jewelry?

21. the death penalty - legal punishment by death, usually for a serious crime such as murder

harsh penalty- strict, unkind, and often unfair

syn.: punishment

22. to apply social policies/ˈpɒləsi/

zero tolerance policy- a policy of punishing people for even very minor offences by using the law in a very strict way

23. to send to/ to be in/ come out of/ get out of prison/jail

24. to apply the correct punishment for crime

25. close relationships

26. to plan/organize a robbery

27. sentence -a punishment given by a judge, usually involving a period of time that a person must spend in prison