A person who is guilty of a crime, notably breaking the law.

A crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point. / An unstable situation, in political, social, economic or military affairs, especially one involving an impending abrupt change.

(law) The area of law pertaining to crime and punishment. / (law) A specific statute, ordinance, regulation, or other source of law that deems an action to be a crime.

A person who is skilled in, or practices criminology

A standard or test by which individual things or people may be compared and judged.

(obsolete) Easily crumbled; friable; brittle. / (obsolete) Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.

A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts.

To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate. / (electricity) To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened. / To pinch and hold; to seize.

An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.

(transitive) To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.