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L’ordre public
AQA A2 Level French social issues vocabulary -public order
| French | English |
|---|---|
| abattre | to shoot |
| l'accusé | the accused |
| acquitter | to acquit |
| l'appel | appeal |
| arrêter | to arrest |
| l'assasinat | murder, attempted murder |
| l’attentat (m) | murder attempt |
| l’audience | hearing |
| la bagarre | fight |
| la bande | gang |
| le blanchiment | money laundering |
| le bracelet électronique | electronic tagging |
| le cambriolage | burglary |
| le chantage | blackmail |
| commettre | to commit |
| la condamnation | sentence |
| condamné | convicted |
| le coup de feu | gunshot |
| la cour (de justice) | court |
| le crime | crime |
| la criminalité | criminal behaviour |
| le CRS | riot police |
| le dealer | dealer |
| le décès/la mort | death |
| décharger | to acquit |
| le décret | decree |
| la défense | defence |
| déposer plainte | to lodge a complaint |
| la déposition | statement |
| le détenu | prisoner |
| écrouer | to lock up |
| l’émeute (f) | riot |
| l'emprisonnement | imprisonment |
| emprisonner | to imprison |
| s'enfuir | to flee |
| engager le procès contre | to take action against |
| l’enlèvement | kidnapping |
| l'escroquerie | swindle |
| exercer l'effet de dissuasion | to act as a deterrent |
| faire appel | to appeal |
| faire le procès à | to take proceedings against |
| faire la virée | to go joyriding |
| le filou | crook |
| le flic (argot) | cop |
| les forces de l’ordre | forces of law and order |
| la fraude | fraud |
| l'homicide involontaire | manslaughter |
| impliqué | involved |
| incendier | to set fire to |
| l’inculpation (f) | charge |
| infliger (la peine) | to impose (a penalty) |
| l’insécurité | insecurity |
| interpeller | to arrest |
| le juge | judge |
| le jugement | verdict |
| les jurés | members of the jury |
| juridique | legal |
| le jury | jury |
| légitime | legitimate |
| la loi | law |
| la manifestation | demonstration |
| mettre en examen | to charge |
| le meurtre | murder |
| le meutrier | murderer |
| mortel(le) | fatal |
| le notaire | solicitor |
| la peine de mort | death penalty |
| plaider | to plead |
| la plainte | complaint |
| la police | the police |
| la politique pénale | penal policy |
| les poursuites (f) | prosecution |
| poursuivre | to prosecute |
| poursuivre en justice | to take to court |
| le pouvoir | power |
| la preuve | proof |
| la prison | prison |
| le prisonnier | prisoner |
| la procédure judiciare | legal system |
| le procès | trial, case |
| se prononcer | to reach a verdict |
| prouver | to prove |
| la punition | punishment |
| le pyromane | arsonist |
| le racket | extorsion |
| la réclusion à perpétuité | life imprisonment |
| reconnaître coupable | to convict |
| le ripou (argot) | bent copper |
| la sécurité | law and order |
| le signal électronique | electronic tag |
| témoigner | to give evidence |
| le témoin | witness |
| le témoinage | evidence |
| tenir en garde à vue | to hold in custody |
| tirer sur | to shoot |
| le trafic des drogues | drug trafficking |
| le traficant | trafficker |
| le travail d'utilité collective | community service |
| le tribunal | court |
| le vandalisme | vandalism |
| le verdict | verdict |
| la victime | victim |
| le viol | rape |
| le vol | theft |
| le vol à l’étalage | shop lifting |
| le vol à main armé | armed robbery |
| le voyou | thug |
| la délinquance | crime, criminality |
| il le vaut bien | he/they deserve(s) it |
| fournir | to provide |
| parvenir | to succeed |
| entraîner | to entail, to lead to |
| soi | oneself |
| aboutir | to end up |
| le délit | offence |
| une infraction | breach, infringement |
| enregistré | recorded |
| la voie publique | public highway |
| le taux d’élucidation | clear-up rate |
| le semestre | term (of six months) |
| une atteinte | attempt, attack |
| les biens | goods, property |
| le récidiver | re-offender |
| la récidive | reoffending |
| dissuader | to deter |
| à peine | hardly |
| engorgé | overcrowded |
| obsédé | obsessed |
| apaiser | to quell, to appease |
| une échelle | scale |
| le dispositif | measure, arrangement |
| mettre en place | to set up, to put in place |
| le milieu | environment, setting |
| périscolaire | outside school |
| le brevet | certificate, diploma |
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