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Drugs: a medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise
introduced into the body.
Addiction: the fact or condition of being addicted to a particular substance or activity.
Convict: To decide officially in a court of law that someone is guilty of a crime.
Fine: Being made to pay money for breaking the law.
Imprisonment: Being put in prison.
Community Service: Work that people do to help other people without payment,
and which young
criminals whose crime was not serious enough for them to be put in prison are sometimes ordered to
do.
Justice: Fairness in the way people are dealt with
Victim: Someone who has suffered because of the actions of someone else
Pick-pocketing: the action of stealing from a person's pockets
Extortion: the practice of
obtaining something, especially money, through force or threats.
Kidnapping: the action of abducting someone and holding them captive.
Exercises
1.Match the vocabulary phrases in the left with their meanings on the right:
1.Death penalty
i)physical punishment
form teacher or head
teacher at school
2. A prison sentence
ii) driving whilst under the influence of alcohol
3.
A suspended sentence
iii) taking from another person’s pocket
4. Forfeiture
iv) imprisoned in one’s own house rather than
in prison
5.
Hospital order
v) imprisonment
6. Corporal punishment
vi)delaying of
a sentence
7.House arrest
vii) property is taken away
8.Pick pocketing
viii)punishment of death
9.Drunk driving
ix) to confine someone to hospital under arrest
