#Kidnap

#Run away
#Harm
#Data/ work stealing
#Money
#Steal
#Smuggle
#Extortion
#Various
#Culprits
#Accomplice
#Commit
#Guilty
#Sex

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#Kidnap
Abduct: SYNONYM kidnap
He had attempted to abduct the two children.
Abductee
Abductor
Abduction: child abduction
Kidnap: SYNONYM abduct, seize
Two businessmen have been kidnapped by terrorists.
The terrorists were planning to kidnap one of the presidents sons.
Abscond(2): He absconded with the company funds. see: waltz off with sth, decamp.
Run off with sth: The treasurer had run off with the club's funds.
Go off with sth: he went off with $1000000 of company's money,
Walk off with sth
Make off with sth.
Get away with sth: Thieves got away with computer equipment worth $30 000.
RELATED NOUN getaway
Hostage-taker: The hostage-takers soon issued their demands.
Hostage-taking: experience in handling hostage-taking situations

Carjack, carjacker, carjacking.

Hijack: The plane was hijacked by two armed men on a flight from London to Rome.
Hijacker
Hijacking= hijack: There have been a series of hijackings recently in the area.
an unsuccessful hijack
Skyjack
Skyjacking.
Skyjacker
Piracy.
Pirate(n1): a pirate ship
There were reports that a pirate ship had come looking for treasure in the cove.
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#Run away
Abscond(1): She absconded from every childrens home they placed her in.
Jailbreak
Break out of sth: Several prisoners broke out of the jail.
She needed to break out of her daily routine and do something exciting.
Breakout: a mass breakout from a top security prison
See: leaveArrive: hightail it, do a moonlight flit etc.
See: flexibility: #Escape: cut and run etc.
See: Difficult situation: Extricate etc.

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#Harm
Actual bodily harm ABH
Grevious Bodily harm GBH: He was convicted of causing grievous bodily harm.
He was found not guilty of inflicting grievous bodily harm.
Foul play: Police immediately began an investigation, but did not suspect foul
play (= did not suspect that the person had been murdered).
The police found no evidence of foul play.
The police have ruled out foul play in the case of his death.
Assault and battery: He was found guilty of assault and battery.
Assault: Both men were charged with assault.
sexual assaults
assault on/upon somebody A significant number of indecent assaults on women go
unreported.

Public nuiscance: He was charged with committing (a) public nuisance.

Caper: a call for the police should put an end to their capers, he's involved in
organized caper.
Nuisance: he was charged with causing public nuisance.
ASBO: antisocial behavior order.
See: government: disturbance etc. disorderly conduct. see: disturbing the peace.
Tort

Victimless: (of a crime)

Aggravated: aggravated assault/burglary
Second-degree: (murder/ assault/ burgalry etc)
First degree
Felony: a charge of felony
Misdemeanour
Venial (of a sin or mistake)
Vagarancy: He was convicted of drunkenness and vagrancy.
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#Data/ work stealing
Phreaking(call without pay). phreaker.
Pharming (address diversion to hacking sites)
Phishing (trick into giving their card number)
See: info: cracker, skim, clone, shoulder surfing.
Identity theft: Victims of identity theft can find themselves saddled with false
criminal records.
Cybercrime
Cybersquatter: Many companies prefer to pay cybersquatters for the right to use
their own name rather than risk a court case.
Cybersquatting.
Wire fraud.
Piracy(2): software piracy
Pirate(n2): a pirate edition
software pirates
Pirate(n3): a pirate radio station
Pirate(v): pirated computer games
Jones was accused of having pirated the scientists work.
Hacking.
See: produce: bootleg, guerilla.
Copycat, plagiarize, bastardize
Copy(4): to copy off/ from sb
Lift(v8): SYNONYM plagiarize
She lifted most of the ideas from a book she had been reading.
Appropriate(v): He was accused of appropriating club funds.
Some of the opposition party's policies have been appropriated by the government.
Appropriation: dishonest appropriation of property
The film company sued them over their appropriation of a cartoon character.
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#Money
Appropriate
Misappropriate: SYNONYM embezzle
He is accused of misappropriating money from the companys pension fund.
Embezzle: He was found guilty of embezzling $150 000 of public funds.
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#Steal
Boost
Nab(v2): Who's nabbed my drink?
Nick(v2): SYNONYM pinch
Who nicked my pen?
Filch= pinch
Pinch(v): SYNONYM nick
Kids have been pinching our apples again.
Who's pinched my pen?
Swipe: SYNONYM pinch
Theyre always swiping other kids sweets.
Sneak: SYNONYM pinch
I sneaked a cake when they were out of the room.
Jack(v): Someone jacked my seat.
Pilfer: pilfer (from somebody/something) He was caught pilfering.
pilfer something (from somebody/something) She regularly pilfered stamps from
work.
Pilferage: pilferage of goods
Pilfering: We know that pilfering goes on.
Pilferer: Certain types of goods are preferred by pilferers.
Skim(v4): Shed been skimming money from the stores accounts for years. see:
white collar crime.
Have your finger in the till
Sneak thief. see here: snatcher.
Cat burglar: The jury heard that he was a professional cat burglar.

Lift(v7): He had been lifting electrical goods from the store where he worked.
SEE ALSO shoplifting
Glom
Snatch: SYNONYM steal
The raiders snatched $100 from the cash register.
The baby was snatched from its parents' car.
Take sb to the cleaners.
Relieve sb of sth: A boy with a knife relieved him of his wallet.
Clean sth out: The burglars totally cleaned her out.
Rifle(v2): His wallet had been rifled.
Rip sth off: Thieves broke in and ripped off five computers.
Whip(v6)

Larceny: SYNONYM theft

The couple were charged with grand/petty larceny (= stealing things that are
valuable/not very valuable).
Theft: car theft
Police are investigating the theft of computers from the company's offices.
COMPARE burglary, robbery
SEE ALSO identity theft, thief
Heist: SYNONYM robbery
a bank heist
Its a tense thriller about a diamond heist that goes badly wrong.
a heist movie
Robbery: armed robbery (= using a gun, knife, etc.)
There has been a spate of robberies in the area recently.
He was shot as he tried to foil a bank robbery.
He already had a conviction for armed robbery.
Thieving: You've no right to take that, you thieving swine!
Thieving(n)
Thief: a car/jewel, etc. thief
Have sticky fingers
Like-fingered: There are some light-fingered people around at the racetrack.
Do(24): The gang did a warehouse and a supermarket. see here: job.
Marauding: marauding wolves
Gangs of marauding youths filled the streets. (patrolling/ roaming/ cruising the
streets)
See: movement: prowl.

Go astray: Several letters went astray or were not delivered.

We locked up our valuables so they would not go astray.
Walk(5): Lock up any valuables. Things tend to walk here (= be stolen).
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Junket
Joyriding
Joyride, Joyrider.
Frosting: Police issued the annual winter warning against frosting car crime.
A growing number of drivers have become victims of frosting.
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Pick sbs pocket: The back pocket on a pair of jeans is the easiest one to pick.
Pickpocket: Watch out for pickpockets, especially at the train station.
Shoplifter, shoplifitng,
Snatcher. see here: sneak their.
Steaming,
Rustle(v2)
Rustler: He was shot dead trying to stop cattle rustlers raiding a farm.
Rustling: cattle rustling
Bodysnatcher.

Despoil= plunder.
Raid(v3): SYNONYM plunder, ransack
Many treasures were lost when the tombs were raided in the last century.
 (humorous) I caught him raiding the fridge again (= taking food from it).
Pillage(n): They brought back horrific accounts of murder and pillage.
Plunder(n): an act of plunder
Pillage(v): SYNONYM plunder
The rebels went looting and pillaging.
pillage something The town had been pillaged and burned.
pillage something from something Works of art were pillaged from churches and
museums.

Pillager= punderer= looter

Freebooter. see here: mercenary, goon
Freebooting(n/adj)

Plunder: SYNONYM loot

The troops crossed the country, plundering and looting as they went.
Delhi was captured and plundered in 1739.
plunder something (of something) The abbey had been plundered of its valuables.
plunder something (from something) Only a small amount of the money that he
plundered from his companies has been recovered.
Loot(v): More than 20 shops were looted.
The invaders rampaged through the streets, looting and killing.
Looting: There was widespread looting in the capital and other cities.

Plunder(n2): The army returned loaded down with plunder

Swag= loot= booty
Spoil(n): the spoils of war
The robbers divided up the spoils.

Burglar: Burglars broke into the gallery and stole dozens of priceless paintings.
Raider: armed/masked raiders
Raiders broke into the warehouse and stole goods worth 20 000.
Housebreaker
Robber

Housebreaking.
Burglary: SYNONYM housebreaking
The youth was charged with three counts of burglary.
a rise in the number of burglaries committed in the area
Audio equipment was stolen in a burglary at the mall.
COMPARE robbery, theft
Raid(n3): an armed bank raid
Ram-raiding
Ram-raid(n/v). ram-raider. see here: smash and grab.
Hand-up: a hold-up at the local supermarket
Stick-up: = hold-up
This is a stick-up!
Hold up sth: Masked men held up a security van in South London yesterday.
Smash and grab: a smash-and-grab raid. see: hit and run. see: ram-raid.

Burglarize= burgle(v): We were burgled while we were away (= our house was
burgled).
The house next door was burgled.
Do sth over: He got home to find that his flat had been done over.
Turn sth over(4): Burglars had turned the house over.
Rob: to rob a bank
The tomb had been robbed of its treasures.
 The gang had robbed and killed the drugstore owner.
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Fell off the back of the lorry

Purloin: We purloined a couple of old computers from work.
Help(5): SYNONYM steal
He'd been helping himself to the money in the cash register.
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Highwayman: Lady Sybils coach was held up by highwaymen on the Plymouth road.
Bandit: Buses driving through the mountains have been attacked by bandits.
Bandito
Banditry.
Mug(v): She had been mugged in the street in broad daylight
Mugging: Mugging is on the increase.
There have been several muggings here recently.
Murders, kidnaps and muggings are reported daily in the newspapers.
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#Smuggle
Run(20): SYNONYM smuggle
He used to run guns across the border.
Smuggle: They were caught smuggling diamonds into the country.
He managed to smuggle a gun into the prison.
smuggled drugs
We do not yet know how the bomb was smuggled abroad.
Traffic(v2): Smugglers were trafficking arms across the border to the rebels.
to traffic in drugs
Traffic(v1): The women had been trafficked and forced into prostitution.
The cartel is now trafficking in illegal immigrants.
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Smuggler: a drug smuggler

Runner(2): a drug runner
Gunrunner, gunrunning.

Running(3): drug-running
Smuggling: drug smuggling
Traffic(5): the traffic in firearms
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Contraband: contraband goods

to smuggle contraband
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Under the counter: Pornography may be legally banned but it is still available
under the counter.

Fence(n1)
Receive(8)
Receiver(5)
Hot(16): I'd never have touched those CDs if I'd known they were hot.
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#Extortion
Blackmail(n)
Blackmail(v): blackmail somebody She blackmailed him for years by threatening to
tell the newspapers about their affair.
blackmail somebody into doing something The President said he wouldn't be
blackmailed into agreeing to the terrorists' demands.
Blackmailer.
Hold sb to ransom: The company refused to be held to ransom by the union.

Tribute, reparation, protection money, extortion, appease,

Protection(5): to pay protection money
to run a protection racket
Ransom: The kidnappers demanded a ransom of 50 000 from his family.
a ransom demand/note
ransom money
They are refusing to pay ransom for her release.
They stole cattle for ransom.
Ransom(v): The kidnapped children were all ransomed and returned home unharmed.
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#Various

Clean(6): a clean driving license.

Clean(7): the police have searched her but she was clean.
See here: first offender
Record= criminal record: Does he have a record?
Rap sheet.

Corpus delicti.

Shake down.
Smalltime= petty.

Depredation
Vandalism: an act of vandalism
The troublemakers embarked on a 30 000 vandalism spree.
Police condemned the damage as an act of mindless vandalism.
Sabotage: an act of economic/military/industrial sabotage
Police investigating the train derailment have not ruled out sabotage.
They conducted a campaign of economic sabotage.
The fire may have been an act of sabotage.

Thuggery: shoplifting, vandalism and petty thuggery

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Firestarter= arsonist.
Fire-raiser=arsonist
Firebug= arsonist. see: pyromaniac.
Fire-raise= arson
Arson: to carry out an arson attack
Vandal: Car vandals caused more than 10 000 worth of damage to vehicles last
Saturday.
Her statue has been targeted by vandals.
The pool had to close after vandals went on a 10 000 wrecking spree.
The station is plagued by vandals.
The vandals struck at about 7.30 p.m. yesterday.
The vandals throw stones at the building.
The windows are covered with grilles to deter vandals.
This is the latest in a spate of vandal attacks on fire crews.
Vandals broke into the factory and set fire to a cabin.
young graffiti vandals who blight the city with their scrawls
The glass has been specially treated to stop vandals from smashing it.
Vandalize: The pay phone had been vandalized and wasnt working.
Sabotage: The main electricity supply had been sabotaged by the rebels
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Trespass(v): He told me I was trespassing on private land.

The sign on the fence said No trespassing.
Trespass(n)
Trespasser: The notice read: Trespassers will be prosecuted.

False imprisonment.

Crime wave: a crime wave among young people. see: rising tide of crime

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#Culprits
Public enemy: public enemy number one (= the person or thing that is most
frightening or that is most hated)
War criminal
Malefactor
Miscreant
Lawbreaker
Wrongdoer: SYNONYM criminal, offender
Most people believed that wrongdoers should be made to suffer.
Criminal: Society does not know how to deal with hardened criminals (= people who
regularly commit crimes and are not sorry for what they do).
(especially North American English) a career criminal.
Offender: a tent/serious/violent, etc. offender
a young offender institution
SEE ALSO first offender, sex offender
Villian(3)
First offender
Re-offend: Without help, many released prisoners will reoffend.
Re-offender: habitual reoffenders. (persistent offender) see here: hardened/
career criminal.
Recidivist
Recidivism. See: backsliding.
Scofflaw.
Juvenile deliquent
Young offender: a young offender institution
Perpetrator= perp: the perpetrators of the crime
We will do everything in our power to bring the perpetrators to justice.

Offender(2): according to the report of sexual discrimination the women are the
worst offenders, when it comes to pollution chemical industry is a major offender.
See: culprit.
Culprit(1): The police quickly identified the real culprits.
Police hunting the culprits have condemned the attack.

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#Accomplice

Aid and abet: She stands accused of aiding and abetting the crime.
He was charged with aiding and abetting the robbers.
Be in cahoots with sb.
See: plan: collude, contrive etc
Accessory(3): an accessory before/after the fact (= before/after the crime was
committed)
accessory to something He was charged with being an accessory to murder.
Accomplice: She became his unwitting accomplice in the robbery.
an accomplice to murder
The police suspect that he had an accomplice.
Confederate(n): SYNONYM accomplice
Rokovssky was his confederate in the assassination plot.
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Collusion: The police were corrupt and were operating in collusion with the drug
dealers.
There was collusion between the two witnesses (= they gave the same false
evidence).
Complicity: SYNONYM collusion
to be guilty of complicity in the murder
evident complicity between the two brothers
Connivance: The crime was committed with the connivance of a police officer.

Conniving
See: plan: connive.
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#Commit
Offend(v3): He started offending at the age of 16.
What is the best way to stop someone who has offended from repeating the offence?
Reoffend
Commit: to commit murder/adultery
Most crimes are committed by young men.
appalling crimes committed against innocent children
Perpetrate: perpetrate something to perpetrate a crime/fraud/massacre
security breaches perpetrated by people working for the company
perpetrate something against/upon/on somebody violence perpetrated against women
and children

Commission(6): the commission of a crime

Perpetration

Possession(4): She was charged with possession.

Contract(2): to take out a contract on somebody

Hitman.
Assassin: a hired/professional assassin
He was killed by a hired assassin.
They hired a professional assassin to do the job for them.
Gun(4): a hired gun
Gunslinger: He walked like a gunslinger, moving each hip separately.
Death squad
Assassin: a hired/professional assassin
He was killed by a hired assassin.
They hired a professional assassin to do the job for them.
Assassinate: The prime minister was assassinated by extremists.
a plot to assassinate the president
Assassination: The president survived a number of assassination attempts.
the assassination of John F. Kennedy
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#Guilty
Offending: The offending driver received a large fine.
On the wrong side of the law.
Guilty(2): The jury found the defendant not guilty of the offence.
He pleaded guilty to murder.
the guilty party (= the person responsible for something bad happening)
We've all been guilty of selfishness at some time in our lives.
OPPOSITE innocent

Wrong(n2): It is time to forgive past wrongs if progress is to be made.

OPPOSITE right
Wrongdoing: SYNONYM crime, offence
The company denies any wrongdoing.
Misdeed: SYNONYM wrongdoing
He will have to answer for his misdeeds in a court of law.
Offense = offence
to commit an offense
The new law makes it a criminal offense to drink alcohol in public places.
a minor/serious offense
She pleaded guilty to five traffic offenses.
Offence: SYNONYM crime
a criminal/serious/minor/sexual, etc. offence
a first offence (= the first time that somebody has been found guilty of a crime)
a capital offence (= one for which somebody may be punished by death)
He was not aware that he had committed an offence.
an offence against society/humanity/the state
New legislation makes it an offence to carry guns.
Crime(1): an increase in violent crime
the fight against crime
Stores spend more and more on crime prevention every year.
petty/serious crime
the connection between drugs and organized crime
He turned to crime when he dropped out of school.
The crime rate is rising.
crime fiction/novels (= stories about crime)
crime figures/statistics
Shes a crime writer (= she writes stories about crime).
Crime(2): to commit a crime (= do something illegal)
The massacre was a crime against humanity.
In his mind he was about to commit the perfect crime.

War crime
Hate crime(1/2): the victim of a hate crime
Job(4): a bank job
He got six months for that last job he did.
an inside job (= done by somebody in the organization where the crime happens)

Count(n4): They were found guilty on all counts.

She appeared in court on three counts of fraud.
See: charge at: law,
Recrimination: bitter recriminations
We spent the rest of the evening in mutual recrimination.
Recriminatory:
See: counterclaim.
Assertion: SYNONYM claim
He was correct in his assertion that the minister had been lying.
Do you have any evidence to support your assertions?
Allegation: SYNONYM accusation
to investigate/deny/withdraw an allegation
allegation of something Several newspapers made allegations of corruption in the
city's police department.
allegation (of something) against somebody allegations of dishonesty against him
allegation about somebody/something The committee has made serious allegations
about interference in its work.
allegation that an allegation that he had been dishonest
See: opinion: accustaion

Criminal: criminal offences/behaviour

criminal damage (= the crime of damaging somebodys property deliberately)
criminal negligence (= the illegal act of somebody failing to do something that
they should do, with the result that somebody else is harmed)
Nefarious: nefarious activities
Felonious

Low life
Rough(4): the roughest neighbourhood in the city
Gangland: gangland killings
the victim of a gangland shooting
Gang: criminal gang members and drug dealers
a gang of pickpockets
A four-man gang carried out the robbery.
Murder, Inc.
Mob(2): SYNONYM gang
All the usual mob were there.
Mob(3): the Mob.
Mafia: a Mafia boss
Large areas of the city were controlled by the Mafia.
Posse(2/3)
Triad
Don
Gunman: Two gunmen opened fire on the car.
Thug: a gang of thugs
He was beaten up by a gang of thugs.
A gang of thugs had attacked him with sticks.
Goon: Just call off your goons and no one will get hurt.
The goons at the next table were just itching to finish him off. see: mercenary.
Ruffian: SYNONYM thug
a gang of young ruffians
Ringleader: The ringleaders were jailed for 15 years.
Godfather
Hood= hoodlum
Gangster: Chicago gangsters
Gangsta

Mobster: De Niro plays the most menacing mobster of all.

Mafioso
Wise guy.

Rap(4): a police rap sheet (= a record of the crimes somebody has committed)
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Delinquency: an increase in juvenile delinquency

The boys drift into minor delinquencies while hanging around the streets.

Criminality: There is little evidence that juvenile criminality is increasing at a

very much greater rate than crime in general.
Criminology
Criminological
Criminologist.

Delinquent: teenage delinquents

SEE ALSO juvenile delinquent
Felon: felons who have served their sentence
The law requires convicted felons entering the state to register their address
with the police.
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#Sex
Bigamy
Monogamy
Polygamy

Sex offender
Child abuse: victims of child abuse
Elder abuse: victims of elder abuse
recognizing the signs of elder abuse
Sexual harassment
Indecent assault
Indecent exposure. (flasher)

Vice: plain-clothes detectives from the vice squad

Date rape.
Acquaintance rape
Gang bang= gang rape.
Adultrer, adultress