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Violence committed in a domestic setting, such as in marriage or cohabitation.

A psychoactive medication, especially one administered by injection, which supposedly renders a person cooperative and disposed to respond honestly to questions.

Relating to the use of science and technology in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of law.

To put in charge of a jailer; to imprison.

To steal purses; to rob.

A drug used illegally and recreationally for its euphoric and other mind-altering effects such as: opiates, cannabinoids, benzodiazepines, amphetamines and others.

A member of the gendarmerie, a military body charged with police duties.

(thieves' cant) Stolen goods; the booty of a burglar or thief; boodle.

Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.

An informer providing substantial quantities of information on criminal or terrorist activities to the police.

A reflexive, often habitual behavior, especially one occurring in a context that often features attempts at deception by persons under psychological stress (such as a poker game or police interrogation), that reveals information that the person exhibiting the behavior is attempting to withhold.

To fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters.

To use one's authority to lay claim to and separate a possession from its holder.

To shake someone so money falls from their pockets.

To strike with a cudgel.

(law enforcement) To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action.

To keep safe; to defend; to guard; to prevent harm coming to.

To break into a house, typically to burgle it.

A confession given to police.

A spy for a smuggler, thief, or similar.