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IELTS speaking topic Crime and Law

Crimes On Road:

• Encroachment (unlawful entering gradually without permission upon land or property)
• Speeding (exceed the limit of legal speeding while driving the vehicle)
• Hit and run

Crimes Related To Stealing:

• Mugging (attacking and robbing at a public place)
• Ransack (search thoroughly and roughly a place to steal things causing harm)
• Shoplifting (action of stealing things from a shop pretending to be a customer)
• Burglary (illegally entering a building with the intention to commit the crime)
• Pickpocket (a person who steals from person’s pocket )
• Smuggling (move goods illegally into or out of the country)
• Theft (stealing)

Physical or Mental Harm:

• Assault (physical attack), Molestation (sexually abuse)
• Domestic violence (violent abuse of a spouse)
• Euthanasia, mercy killing (painless killing of a person suffering from incurable disease)
• Stone pelting (throwing of stones)
• Psychopath, serial killer (a person killing a lot of people due to psychological disorder)

Related Verbs (Harm):

• Betray (cheat, be disloyal, deceive)
• Assassinate, slay (kill)
• Kidnap, abduct (e.g. kidnap a child)
• Stab (to attack with a knife)
• Strangle (to kill someone by squeezing the throat)
• Threaten (to warn someone)

Money Or Damaging Property:

• Bribery (usually money given illegally in exchange of influence done)
• Ransom (some of money demanded for release of captive or kidnapped person)
• Forgery, fraud (fake sign or documents)
• Vandalism (damaging public property)

Additional Crimes:

• Juvenile delinquency ( crime committed by minors or under 18)
• Organized crime (well-planned crime)
• White-collar crime (crime in office premises especially related to money)
• Communal riots (violence between communities)

Verbs Related to Crime:

• Abscond (to escape)
• Imitate Crime (copy crime)
• Instigate, provoke (incite someone to do something bad)

Verbs Related to Punishment:

• Ban, prohibit (formally forbid by law or rules)
• Banish, exile (to expel and bar someone from native country)
• Besiege (trap)
• To deter (to keep away)

Related Words:

• Gallow (loop of rope to hang a person)
• Alimony (maintenance money given to a spouse after divorce)
• Heinous, brutal, unpardonable, unforgivable (cruel)
• Traitor(who has cheated the country)

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Kinds Of Punishment:

• Capital punishment (death penalty)
• Prison sentence (sent to jail)

Alcohol Abuse, Alcoholism:

• Bootlegger (a person who sells alcohol illegally)
• Intoxicated (condition of being drunk)
• Social drinker (occasional drinker in social gathering)
• Bartender (a person who serves drink at bar)
• Hangover (feeling of uneasiness the next day of drinking)
• Teetotaler (one who never drinks alcohol)

In courtroom:

• Verdict (final judgment)
• Judicial System, judiciary (court system)
• Jury (group of people to give final judgment)
• Parole (temporary or permanent release of a prisoner on a promise of good behavior)
• Juvenile court (for trial of people below 18)
• Solicitor, advocate, barrister (lawyer)