Chapter II. Unit 1. The study of crime

VOCABULARY LIST

CHAPTER II. UNIT 1. THE STUDY OF CRIME

1. Misdeed

2. Misconduct

3. Crime

4. Offense

5. Wrongdoing

6. Unlawful act

7. Violation of the law

8. Lawbreaking

9. Harm

10. Sin

11. Criminology

12. Causes of crime

13. Characteristics of criminals

14. To apprehend

15. To convict

16. Offender

17. Correctional institution

18. Rehabilitation of convicts

19. Prevention of crime

20. Objective

21. To determine

22. To determine the causes of sth

23. Criminal behaviour

24. To evolve valid principles

25. To pursue an objective

26. To draw on sth

27. Findings

28. Biology

29. Psychology

30. Psychiatry

31. Sociology

32. Anthropology

33. To originate

34. To question sth

35. Retribution

36. Deterrence

37. Consequence

38. To mitigate

39. Penalty

40. To humanize

41. Penal institutions

42. Scientific neutrality

43. To hold

44. To be shaped by sth

45. To emphasize

46. Case study

47. Rehabilitative measures

48. Research technique

49. Collection and interpretation of statistics

50. Typological method

51. Sociological research

52. Crime rate

53. Practical application

54. Prison official

55. legislator

56. criminologist

57. to look into the problem of crime

58. to be regarded as …

59. scientific study of criminals

60. forensic medicine

61. mental asylum

62. to set out an idea

63. criminal type

64. to recognize

65. to have a criminal instinct

66. the curve of the chin

67. forehead

68. to be widely influential

69. emphasis on sth

70. hereditary

71. hereditary causes of crime

72. in favour of sth

73. to reject

74. penal system

75. to encourage more humane and constructive treatment of convicts

76. firsthand observation

77. inmate

78. investigation

79. hereditary criminal

80. to exhibit sth

81. percentage

82. physical and mental anomalies

83. skull

84. asymmetry

85. multiple causes

86. upbringing

87. preventive measures

88. capital punishment

89. alternatives to capital punishment

90. imprisonment

91. probation

92. sentence

93. suspended sentence

94. parole

95. to be unthinkable

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