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La criminalité - Vocab French to English

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Attitudes envers la criminalité - Vocab French to English

Key topic words

Key topic words

  • le délit - crime
  • la peine de prison - prison sentence
  • une infraction - offence
  • les antécédents judiciaires - criminal record
  • les mauvaises fréquentations - bad company
Nouns

Nouns

  • une amende - fine
  • la gravité - the seriousness
  • le/la majeur(e) - adult
  • le/la mineur(e) - underage, minor
  • le comportement - behaviour
  • la peine de mort - death sentence
Nouns (continued)

Nouns (continued)

  • la réinsertion - rehabilitation
  • la récompense - reward
  • la privation de liberté - removal of freedom
  • l'estime de soi - self-esteem
  • une amélioration - improvement
  • le bon vouloir - goodwill
Nouns (continued)

Nouns (continued)

  • la bonne conduite - good behaviour
  • la culpabilité - culpability, blame
  • la prévention - prevention
  • la tierce personne - third person
  • autrui - another/third person
  • le travail d'intérêt général - community service
Verbs

Verbs

  • se comporter - to behave
  • condamner - to sentence
  • enfreindre la loi - to break the law
  • porter plainte - to lodge a complaint
  • punir - to punish
  • dissuader - to deter
Verbs (continued)

Verbs (continued)

  • se focaliser sur - to focus on
  • motiver - to motivate
  • avoir conscience de - to be aware of
  • prévenir - to prevent
  • récidiver - to re-offend
  • renoncer à - to give up on
  • surveiller - to monitor
Adjectives

Adjectives

  • dissuasif - deterrent
  • carcéral - related to prison
  • en hausse - increasing
  • significatif - significant
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