CRIMES AND CRIMINALS

 

 

 

"Fear follows crime and is its punishment"

Voltaire

An excerpt from "Crime and Punishment", by Fiódor Dostoiévsky

No one was on the stairs, nor in the gateway. He passed quickly through

the gateway and turned to the left in the street. He knew, he knew perfectly

well that at that moment they were at the flat, that they were greatly astonished

at finding it unlocked, as the door had just been fastened, that by now they

were looking at the bodies, that before another minute had passed they would

guess and completely realize that the murderer had just been there, and had

succeeded in hiding somewhere, slipping by them and escaping. They would guess most likely that he had been in the empty flat, while they were going upstairs. And meanwhile he dared not quicken his pace much, though the next turning was still nearly a hundred yards away.

"Should he slip through some gateway and wait somewhere in an unknown

street? No, hopeless! Should he fling away the axe? Should he take a

cab? Hopeless, hopeless!"     

At last he reached the turning. He turned down more dead than alive. Here

he was half way to safety, and here understood it; it was less risky because

there was a great crowd of people, and he was lost in it like a grain of sand.

But all he had suffered had so weakened him that he could scarcely move.

                                                                          Part One. Chapter 7.

 

Useful vocabulary.

THE CRIMINAL

                                          THE CRIME /

THE ACT                  

VERB/ACTION
the person who.....

Accused of/

charged with

To...
shoplifter shoplifting to shoplift
hijacker hijaking to hijack
forger forgery to forge
kidnapper kidnapping to kidnap
rapist rape to rape
robber robbery to rob (an institution or someone)
thief theft to steal (something)
burglar burglary to burgle
mugger mugging to mug
smuggler smuggling to smuggle (sthg. out of a country)
briber bribery to bribe
vandal vandalism to vandalize
hooligan hooliganism to cause damage UNDELIBERATELY
terrorist terrorism to plant a bomb, to cause an explosion,to maintain a state of terror violently, to hijack...
blackmailer blackmailing to blackmail
drug dealer drug dealing to deal in/with
killer killing to kill
murderer murder

to murder

fraudster fraud

to get money by deceiving people to obtain some gain or profit

CRIMINAL GALLERY

About one of the most famous criminals worldwide.

 A documentary about one of the most famous trials in history, the Salem Witch Trials.

The live account of a girl who could escape from a rapist and killer.

A cry for innocence is a documentary about the case known as the West memphis Three, three men who have been convicted and spent 18 years in prison when there is no evidence against them.