Crime Vocabulary Exercise at Auto-English

Circle the correct answer.

1 This is when you have to pay money so that a crime you committed is not reported to the police.
A a ransom
B blackmail
C a bribe
7 This is what a traffic warden gives you when you double park.
A a kiss
B a receipt
C a fine
2 This is a person who steals from shops.
A a shoplifter
B a mugger
C a muggins
8 A judge declares you to be this if it is what the jury has decided.
A unlucky
B guilty
C very bad
3 This is to steal from a house in the night.
A to mug
B to smuggle
C to burgle
9 Although the court has found you guilty, you are free as long as you visit your local police station everyday.
A prosecution
B persecution
C probation
4 This is when a guilty person is found not quilty or when thieves escape with what they have stolen.
A to get away with
B to abscond
C to flee
10 A punishment resulting in death!
A capital punishment
B corporal punishment
C writing lines
5 This is someone who claims to have been with the accused, so proving this person could not have been at the scene of the crime when it happened.
A an alibi
B a witness
C an arsonist
11 These are twelve good men and women and true who kindly decide your future for you in court.
A witnesses
B alibis
C members of the jury
6 This is a person who brings drugs or diamonds into a country secretly.
A an arsonist
B a bandit
C a smuggler
12 This could be a pistol, rope, lead piping, a rolling pin or a nuclear bomb.
A My arm
B weapons
C children's toys
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