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by Liz Walter
Today’s post is the last in a short series on the topic of crime and deals with words and phrases connected with what happens once a criminal is caught. Continue reading “Trial, judge, and jury: talking about what happens when a criminal is caught”
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by Liz Walter
My last post looked at some general vocabulary for talking about crime. Today I’m going to focus on the specific area of theft.
Continue reading “Robbing, looting, and embezzling: talking about stealing”
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by Liz Walter
Today’s post is the first in a short series on the topic of crime and it looks at some general vocabulary. Once again, I will be focusing on collocations, or words that go together. Continue reading “Committing, tackling, and solving: talking about crime”
by Liz Walter
Edward Gibbon described history as ‘little more than the register of crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind’. If this is true, it is perhaps not surprising to note a clear link between changes in a society – its inventions, habits, culture and technology – and changes in the nature of crimes committed within it.
In recent years it has been technology above all that has provided huge opportunities for a range of new crimes. Phishing (the practice of masquerading as a reputable organisation, especially via email, in order to trick people out of personal data such as bank account details) has been so widely publicized that only the most naïve would now fall for it. However, there are still many other internet crimes of varying degrees of sophistication. Continue reading “Phishing for botherders: keeping up with modern crime”