'incrimination' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It means the act of accusing someone of a crime or wrongdoing. Example: The defense lawyer argued that the evidence presented was not enough to prove his client's guilt and that the incrimination was based on false assumptions.
The authors suggest that may be useful in criminal forensics, in which photographs are recovered of victims: the perpetrators may be seen in the victims' eyes, a new form of incrimination whether they survive an assault or not.
But something went wrong and the men fled, leaving behind an amazing trail of incrimination.
But he added: "The incrimination of sporting fraud is still far from generalised.
And that was the shortest interview of all, because that witness invoked his fifth amendment privilege against incrimination.
Next came reports of staff in Bristol recorded confessing to blunders in another case of a dead infant, then discussing deletion of the conversation for fear of incrimination.
"Mr. Chairman," Gowdy said, soulfully, "I am stunned that a conversation about an album he purchased could possibly subject him to incrimination".
Abreu denied it at trial, but Griggs said that he was only given his full rights against self-incrimination after he signed.
(As it happened, Burge, the notorious police torturer, himself pleaded the fifth, exercising his constitutional right against self-incrimination, during a February deposition. He was released from house arrest last month after being convicted to four and a half years on a perjury charge).
He has disappeared from public view after invoking his right against self-incrimination when called as a witness in an Abu Ghraib-related trial that year.
Both Mr Fastow and Kenneth Lay, Enron's chief executive, pleaded the Fifth Amendment to avoid self-incrimination when asked to testify in front of a Senate committee.
It has ruled against companies being allowed to take the fifth amendment (against self-incrimination).
