(Robber - robbery; Shoplifter - shoplifting)
Who's the criminal and what's the crime?
(Exercise 1 - The name of the crime - Answers)


    1. Stealing goods from a shop, by walking out of the shop without paying for them. SHOPLIFTING
    2. Deliberately killing somebody. MURDER
    3. Taking somebody and keeping them as a prisoner, especially in order to get money. KIDNAPPING
    4. Stealing money or goods from a bank, shop, person etc., especially if you use violence or threaten (脅す) to use violence. ROBBERY
    5. Breaking into a building and stealing things from it. BURGLARY
    6. Demanding money from a person by threatening to tell a secret about them to other people. BLACKMAIL
    7. Deliberately setting fire to something, especially to a building. ARSON

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