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Criminology :: Criminology (n.) A treatise on crime or the criminal population.

Apprehend :: Apprehend (v. t.) Hence: To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal..

Asylum :: Asylum (n.) A sanctuary or place of refuge and protection, where criminals and debtors found shelter, and from which they could not be forcibly taken without sacrilege..

Discriminal :: Discriminal (a.) In palmistry, applied to the line which marks the separation between the hand and the arm..

Criminalness :: Criminalness (n.) Criminality.

Sentence :: Sentence (n.) In civil and admiralty law, the judgment of a court pronounced in a cause; in criminal and ecclesiastical courts, a judgment passed on a criminal by a court or judge; condemnation pronounced by a judgical tribunal; doom. In common law, the term is exclusively used to denote the judgment in criminal cases..

Knout :: Knout (n.) A kind of whip for flogging criminals, formerly much used in Russia. The last is a tapering bundle of leather thongs twisted with wire and hardened, so that it mangles the flesh..

Taboo :: Taboo (v. t.) To put under taboo; to forbid, or to forbid the use of; to interdict approach to, or use of; as, to taboo the ground set apart as a sanctuary for criminals..

Civil :: Civil (a.) Relating to rights and remedies sought by action or suit distinct from criminal proceedings.

Flagitious :: Flagitious (a.) Disgracefully or shamefully criminal; grossly wicked; scandalous; shameful; -- said of acts, crimes, etc..

Criminous :: Criminous (a.) Criminal; involving great crime or grave charges; very wicked; heinous.

Fornicator :: Fornicator (n.) An unmarried person, male or female, who has criminal intercourse with the other sex; one guilty of fornication..

Try :: Try (v. t.) To examine or investigate judicially; to examine by witnesses or other judicial evidence and the principles of law; as, to try a cause, or a criminal..

Precognition :: Precognition (n.) A preliminary examination of a criminal case with reference to a prosecution.

Misjoinder :: Misjoinder (n.) An incorrect union of parties or of causes of action in a procedure, criminal or civil..

Noxious :: Noxious (a.) Guilty; criminal.

Guilty :: Guilty (superl.) Having incurred guilt; criminal; morally delinquent; wicked; chargeable with, or responsible for, something censurable; justly exposed to penalty; -- used with of, and usually followed by the crime, sometimes by the punishment..

Delivery :: Delivery (n.) The act of delivering up or over; surrender; transfer of the body or substance of a thing; distribution; as, the delivery of a fort, of hostages, of a criminal, of goods, of letters..

Joinder :: Joinder (v. t.) A joining of causes of action or defense in civil suits or criminal prosecutions.

Scelerat :: Scelerat (n.) A villain; a criminal.

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