| PROPERTY | the thing or things that someone owns |
| PROSECUTE | charge with a crime |
| PROSECUTOR | a person who istitutes or conductts legal proceedings, esp. in a criminal court |
| PROSECUTION | the institution and carrying on of legal proceedings against a person |
| PROTECTION | keeping someone or something safe from harm, damage or illness |
| PUNISHMENT | making someone suffer because they have done something wrong or have broken the law |
| PUNISH | make someone suffer because they have done something wrong or have broken the law |
| QUESTION | ask someone questions in order to get information about something, especially a crime |
| QUESTIONING | asking someone questions in order to get information about something, especially a crime |
| RANSOM | an amount of money that is paid to free someone who is held as a prisoner |
| RAPE | the crime of forcing someone to have sex, especially by using violence |
| RAPIST | SB who forces another to have sexual intercourse |
| RECIDIVIST | a criminal who starts doing illegal things again, even after he or she has been punished |
| REFORMATORY | a special school where young people who have broken the law are sent |
| REFUGEE | SB who has been forced to leave their country, esp. during war, or for political/religious reasons |
| RELEASE | when someone is officially allowed to go free after being kept somewhere eg in prison |
| REMAND | to send someone back from a court of law, to wait for their trial |
| REPRIEVE | to issue an official order stopping the killing of a prisoner as a punishment |
| RINGLEADER | someone who leads a group that is doing something illegal or wrong |
| RIOT SHIELD | special equipment protecting police officers during a riot |
| ROB | to steal money or property from a person, bank etc. |
| ROBBERY | act of stealing money or property from a person, bank etc. |
| ROBBER | someone who steals money or property from a person, bank etc |
| SABOTAGE | deliberate damage that is done to equipment, vehicles etc. to prevent an enemy from using them |
| SABOTEUR | a person who commits sabotage |
| SAFETY | being safe from danger or harm |
| MEANS OF SAFETY | ways to prevent danger, risk, threat of harm, injury or loss to personnel and/or property |
| SECRET | operating in a hidden or confidential manner |
| SECRET AGENT | a person employed in espionage |
| SECRET SERVICE | a government agency engaged in intelligence-gathering activities |
| SECURITY | protection from danger |
| GUARANTEE OF SECURITY | a promise that something will be secure |
| SELF - DEFENCE | something you do to protect yourself or your property |
| SENTENCE | a punishment that a judge gives to someone who is guilty of a crime |
| SERVE | spend a particular period of time in prison |
| SHOPLIFT | to take something from a shop without paying for it |
| SHOPLIFTER | someone who is taking something from a shop without paying for it |
| SHOPLIFTING | taking something from a shop without paying for it |
| SLANDER | false spoken statement about someone intended to damage the good opinion that people have of him/her |
| SMUGGLE | to take something or someone illegally from one country to another |
| SMUGGLER | a person taking something or someone illegally from one country to another |
| SMUGGLING | taking something or someone illegally from one country to another |
| SOUND THE ALARM | turn on the alarm, make a noise |
| STATEMENT | the act of expressing something in words |
| STEAL | to take something without the permission or knowledge of the owner and keep it |
| STOWAWAY | a person who hides on a ship, aircraft, or other vehicle |
| SUE | [make a legal claim against someone, especially for money, bacause they have harmed you in some way |
| SUPERVISOR | someone in charge of a person or activity |
| SUPERVISION | being in charge of a person or activity |
| SWINDLE | get money from someone by deceiving them |
| SWINDLER | a person who gets money from someone by deceiving them |
