Words & Phrases:

1. No one's idea of: on one would deem that...

2. Methamphetamine: n. an illegal drugs that gives a feeling of energy.

Synonyms: meth; methamphetamine hydrochloride

root: meth

3. offender: n. (1) someone is guilty of a crime

                       (2) someone or something is a cause of somthing bad

    root: offend

    conjugate: a. 1. offensive 2. offending

                    ad.1. offensively

                     n. offence; offense; offensive; offensiveness

                      v. offend

4. torn it up:(tear it up)  to damage something such as cloth ot paper by pulling it hard or letting it touch something sharp.

     Synonym: 1. tear sth. on sth.

                      2. tear sth. off

                       3.tear something out (of sth). 

                                    

5. mugger：n. a robber who takes property by threatening or performing violence on someone who is robbed (usually on the street).

Root： mug

mug: n. 1. a tea cup used for dringking tea or coffee

             2. a large glass with handle , used especially for drinking bear

         v. 1. to attack someone or rub them in a public place

             2. to makes silly expressions with your face or behave in a silly way, especially for a photograph or in a play

mug up: to try to learn something in a short time, especially for an examination.

mug sth up: to try to learn something.

6. in check: adv. unable to act freely

7. felonious: involving or consitituting a felony ;invoving or being, having nature of crime.

    synonym: enormous; atrocious  

   felony: a serious crime such as murder or arson

   root: felon

   synonym: high crime

8. hard case: someone who is difficult to deal with and possibly angry and violent.

9. outlier: n. 1. a person, thing or fact is very different from other people, things or facts, so that it cannot be used to draw general conclusion.

                    2. a place that is far from the main part of something.

10. convicts: v. to prove or offcially anounce that someone is guilty of a crime after a trial in a law court

                     n. someone who has been proved to be guilty of a crime and sent to prison

synonym: offender

11. recidivism: habitual relapse into crime

     synonym: recommitment; jailbird

      root: recidivate : go back to bad behavior

12.fall on deaf ears: If suggestion fall on deaf ears, no one listens to it.

13.incaceration: a state of being imprisoned.

synonyms: prison ; imprisonment

Root: incarcerate

Conjugate: incacerate : 1. to put or keep someone in the prison or a place used as a prison

                                     2. to keep someone in a closed place and prevent them from leaving it.