noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a crime carries a penalty
▪ Murder carries a minimum penalty of 15 years in prison.
a crime carries a sentence (=that is the punishment for that crime)
▪ Rape should carry an automatic life sentence.
a crime drama (=about a crime or crimes)
▪ 'American Gangster' is a crime drama set in 1970s New York.
a crime wave (=a sudden increase in crime)
▪ The city is experiencing a crime wave.
a news/crime/sports reporter
▪ He started as a news reporter on Radio 1.
a serious crime/offence
▪ Kidnapping is a serious crime.
a violent crime
▪ He has a number of convictions for violent crime.
a war crime (=a cruel act in a war which is against international law)
▪ They will be charged with war crimes.
alleged offence/crime/incident etc
▪ their alleged involvement in international terrorism
▪ The alleged victim made the complaint at a police station in York.
car crimeBritish English
▪ Car crime in the area has risen rapidly.
combat inflation/crime/racism etc
▪ To combat inflation, the government raised interest rates.
commit a crime/offence
▪ People who commit crimes end up in jail.
compound a crime/an offence etc
▪ He compounded the offence by calling his opponents liars.
crime wave
▪ More police officers are being brought in to help tackle the current crime wave.
crime/accident/fire etc prevention
▪ Effective crime prevention must be our main goal.
▪ a fire prevention officer
crime/drug etc kingpin
▪ a mafia kingpin
crime/economic/unemployment etc statistics
▪ The economic statistics tell a grim story.
cut crime
▪ Cameras have helped to cut crime in the town centre.
despicable crime
▪ a despicable crime
gang crime (=crime committed by gangs)
▪ The initiative aims to cut gang crime in Los Angeles.
hate crime
heinous crime
▪ a heinous crime
knife crime (=crimes in which people are attacked with knives)
▪ Knife crime is on the increase.
organized crime
▪ Organized crime is involved in drug trafficking.
soft on crime
▪ No politician wants to seem soft on crime.
solve a crime/case
▪ The crime was never solved.
street crime/violence (=when people are attacked in the street)
▪ Young men are most likely to be victims of street crime.
tackle crime
▪ The police set up a special task force to tackle street crime in the capital.
the crime rate
▪ Our crime rate is one of the lowest in the country.
the punishment should fit the crime (=it should be appropriate)
▪ The public believe that the punishment should fit the crime.
turn to drink/crime/drugs etc
▪ addicts who turn to crime to finance their habit
war crime
▪ He was put on trial for war crimes.
war crimes tribunal (=court judging war crimes)
▪ an international war crimes tribunal
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
corporate
▪ Thus, such crimes as embezzlement and other examples of employee theft will not be included in this discussion of corporate crime.
▪ The practice fosters corporate crime, and the governing ethic-that public service ought not be parlayed into private profitis often eclipsed.
▪ That definition, which is taken from Box's study, is rather long-winded, but corporate crime is a complex issue.
▪ But when bills are introduced in Congress to help curb the epidemic of corporate crime, there is an eerie silence.
▪ The evidence is, in the case of corporate crime, that nothing much happens by way of public scandal and social ruin.
▪ Before proceeding to estimate the costs of corporate crime, one last distinction needs to be made.
▪ Indifference rather than intention may be the cause of greater human suffering, particularly with regard to corporate crime.
▪ Below we will concentrate on an examination of corporate, business crime, the law-breaking of businesses and corporations.
heinous
▪ The argument of all crackdown law is that it applies special, draconian measures to tackle some heinous crime.
▪ We not only face the heinous crimes dead on, we face our fellow viewers.
▪ For Mankins, seeing Harris die was simple retribution for a heinous crime.
high
▪ Both types of survey show a far higher figure for crimes committed than do the official statistics produced by the police.
▪ His ruling may have been an abomination, but it was neither a high crime nor a misdemeanor.
▪ A succession of sensational crimes has capped a 23-year high in serious crimes.
▪ Studies show a disproportionately high amount of crime attributable to kids born after long, difficult labors with forceps deliveries.
▪ It is no use the Home Secretary saying that the high crime rate is due to other factors.
▪ Starring newcomer Johnny Depp, it was about four young cops who battled high school crime.
▪ When the economy is bad and unemployment high, crime is rife.
▪ Not a necessary social misdemeanor, as most bootlegging was contemporaneously regarded, but a high crime in any age.
juvenile
▪ Mr Clarke also stressed the role of schools in combating juvenile crime and demanded more effective treatment of disruptive pupils.
▪ Governor Bush has made his mark building prisons, toughening laws on juvenile crime and calling for lower property taxes.
▪ I emphasise that juvenile crime is not the same as adult crime.
▪ The breakdown of community has brought far more problems than personal malaise, of course. Juvenile crime is up.
▪ Children of welfare-dependent single-parent families have neither a monopoly on juvenile crime nor a disdain for conventional values.
▪ Between 1990 and 1994, there was a 57 percent increase in juvenile violent crime arrests.
▪ Kids Count also reports a 47 percent rise in juvenile violent crime arrests since 1985.
▪ By comparison, Sanders said juvenile crime has been up significantly in many other big cities.
only
▪ This is the only crime for which the judges concede there is sufficient evidence.
▪ Once upon a time the only crime in this neck of the woods was domestic.
▪ Mr Clinton's only crime so far is to have been accused by an ageing cabaret artiste of infidelity.
▪ Now he was dead, brutally murdered, and Corbett knew his only crime was that some one had watched them talk.
▪ Violence was the only crime for which he found any link with unemployment.
▪ Tell the King that Mohamed Srifi's only crime seems to have been the expression of his peaceful political views.
▪ Street robbery was not the only crime to be viewed leniently in the interwar years.
▪ In that respect, Johnson's only crime was naïvety.
petty
▪ As the years had progressed a series of petty crimes had seen him in remand homes, borstals and finally prison.
▪ Economic deprivation has increased both petty and violent crimes, turning some cities into murder capitals.
▪ He has convictions there for a number of theft and similar petty crime offences since leaving St Patrick's.
▪ Johnson had two prior convictions for residential burglaries and a history of petty crimes.
▪ The place was suffused with struggle and resentment and frustration. Petty crime was commonplace.
▪ How do three-strikers endure the thought of spending life in prison for a relatively petty crime?
▪ If the government no longer differentiates between petty crime and murder, why should they?
recorded
▪ Yet recorded crime fell by one-third despite increased willingness among the police and public to institute prosecutions.
▪ The statistics show that recorded crime is predominantly working-class.
▪ Firstly, improved police efficiency will affect the rate of recorded crime.
▪ Thus recorded crime can only be seen as an indication of criminal activity.
▪ Changes in either or both will produce changes in recorded crime trends.
▪ But this can not be taken as carteblanche for assuming that long-term recorded crime trends correspond to victimization.
▪ More than half of all recorded crimes are car crimes, involving the theft of vehicles or the theft of property from vehicles.
rising
▪ All those factors are linked to rising crime rates.
▪ Viktor Barannikov gave an old-style speech warning of the threat of foreign intelligence services and rising crime.
▪ He takes over at a time when latest figures show Gloucestershire with the fasting rising crime rate in the country.
▪ Voice over At Thames Valley police headquarters today rising crime statistics were on the agenda of a meeting of the police authority.
▪ The insurance industry is also very concerned about rising car crime.
▪ Read in studio Police have launched a new initiative to tackle a rising wave of crime.
▪ It's no good just bleating on about the rising tide of crime to get money out of the government.
serious
▪ Petty crime was commonplace. Serious crime was the stuff of stairhead gossip.
▪ Although the Navy had substantial evidence of several serious crimes, there was never a trial for any of them.
▪ Bigamy, for example, is a serious crime in Britain yet it is normal and accepted practice in other countries.
▪ The second man faces charges for being an accomplice to a serious crime.
▪ As we saw in Chapter 1, women commit fewer crimes, less serious crimes and do less often.
▪ Consider the following:-Statistically, only a small percentage of people become victims of a serious crime.
▪ New closed prisons were built for convicted offenders serving long fixed sentences or life imprisonment for the most serious crimes.
▪ However the failure of some one to go to mass is considered to be a serious crime.
soft
▪ On Saturday, Dole piled on, using Napolitano to blast Clinton judicial appointees as soft on crime.
▪ But criticism of the Stack nomination is not the same as accusing Clinton of being soft on crime.
▪ Dole aides believe they can paint the president as soft on crime by hammering his judicial nominees.
tough
▪ If Feinstein takes on Lungren, she must have a Washington record of being tough on crime.
▪ Everyone wants to get tough on crime, until the bill comes in.
violent
▪ Most of those arrested were reported to have been previously convicted of drug and arms trafficking and violent crimes.
▪ It is by now well known that about half of all violent crime is committed by and against blacks.
▪ There is now much more public demand for support to the victims of violent crime.
▪ As a police reporter for the Miami Herald, she covered thousands of murders and other violent crimes.
▪ The state executes drug smugglers, murderers, rapists and those convicted of other violent crimes.
▪ Between 1990 and 1994, there was a 57 percent increase in juvenile violent crime arrests.
▪ Overall crime rates fell by 2.7 % in the year to March, but violent crime increased.
▪ Kids Count also reports a 47 percent rise in juvenile violent crime arrests since 1985.
■ NOUN
car
▪ Higher insurance as car crime rockets.
▪ By then, car crime had pushed insurance rates up beyond the ozone and way past the stratosphere.
▪ Two types of car crime offenders concern us.
▪ Painfully little has been done specifically to tackle car crime, which is a major aspect of youth crime.
▪ And the more car crime there is, the more it costs to insure.
▪ The police have taken action to combat the wave of car crime.
▪ More than 1.5 million car crimes were committed last year, one in five by people under 21, a survey found.
▪ More than half of all recorded crimes are car crimes, involving the theft of vehicles or the theft of property from vehicles.
hate
▪ Murder, rape and other hate crimes could be a mere provocation away.
▪ Vista Unified School District trustees became so concerned that they now expel students caught committing hate crimes.
▪ The Anti-Defamation League has compiled hate crime statistics from law enforcement throughout the county and recorded 413 incidents from 1992-94.
▪ Exactly what makes a hate crime?
▪ But Roth said investigations showed few of the reports reflected actual hate crimes.
▪ On Tuesday, Symington vetoed a bill that would have allowed judges to increase prison sentences for hate crimes.
▪ Thirty-six states have similar hate-crimes laws, and reports of hate crimes have been on the rise in Arizona, Woods says.
▪ And statewide, only 215 of 750 law enforcement agencies reported any hate crimes.
prevention
▪ Talk about crime and crime prevention.
▪ Last month, the governor's office announced the county would get $ 10.3 million from a statewide crime prevention act.
▪ Ten schools from the area took part in the competition which tested knowledge of crime prevention and personal safety.
▪ But Stevens said the goal should be set higher to give officers more time for crime prevention.
▪ But some speakers emphasised the importance of crime prevention, community liaison and education.
▪ I can confirm, however, that on 11 February I shall announce a major campaign - car crime prevention year.
▪ They offer confidential counselling, basic crime prevention advice and help with practical details like insurance claims.
▪ So crime prevention should be too.
rate
▪ All those factors are linked to rising crime rates.
▪ Truancy rates have dropped 42 percent, and daytime crime rates have dropped 35 percent.
▪ He failed to make only one comparison - that on crime rates.
▪ Yet when crime rates rise, the police buy more squad cars.
▪ Any Government who are seriously concerned about dealing with the escalating crime rate must begin to tackle crime at its roots.
▪ Warlock has gone so far as to link the rate of out-of-wedlock births to crime rates.
▪ He takes over at a time when latest figures show Gloucestershire with the fasting rising crime rate in the country.
▪ And the male crime rate during any nine-day period is still higher than the female crime rate during the premenstrual period.
scene
▪ Unfortunately, there was no solid proof of this beyond his own memory of the previous crime scenes.
▪ John Night Sky, you must visit a variety of colorful crime scenes, gathering evidence and interviewing suspects and witnesses.
▪ After the incident, police allegedly allowed hospital officials to clean up the crime scene, destroying any evidence.
▪ The Bruno Magli shoes linked to the crime scene are a particularly rare and pricey style.
▪ Of how evidence was moved at the crime scene.
▪ But sitting through nearly 111 minutes of bloody crime scenes, test-tube shots and gruesome autopsy scenes is just unpleasant and boring.
▪ Investigators have said the crime scene outside Scuttons' computer store produced little usable evidence.
▪ Petrocelli also produced 31 photos of Simpson wearing the same style Bruno Magli shoes that left bloody footprints at the crime scene.
statistics
▪ The best example of this is crime statistics.
▪ They agree about the seriousness of the crime statistics and the importance of full disclosure.
▪ Voice over At Thames Valley police headquarters today rising crime statistics were on the agenda of a meeting of the police authority.
▪ The Anti-Defamation League has compiled hate crime statistics from law enforcement throughout the county and recorded 413 incidents from 1992-94.
▪ It is normal, then, to expect a high representation of black youth in youthful crime statistics.
▪ They say that crime statistics have fallen among nearly all age groups nationwide.
▪ If Catholics figure disproportionately in the crime statistics, it is because Protestants are more law-abiding.
▪ At that meeting on July 10, the board was stunned by an independent audit of four years of crime statistics.
street
▪ The 1989 Home Office report found that victims of burglary become more fearful of street crime as well.
▪ Yet, viewing the Situation rationally, there are no old perpetrators of street crimes.
▪ More police officers visibly going about their business is the most commonly advanced solution to street crime.
▪ Citizens in inner-city areas are desperately worried and rightly so, about street crime.
▪ Manchester police have an even simpler explanation for the current rise in street crime.
▪ From there they go to Madrid and Barcelona, where they are already being blamed for an increase in street crime.
▪ Apart from a few pickpockets in Rangoon, street crime does not exist.
tribunal
▪ The outside world talks of a war crimes tribunal but nobody supposes that anything will come of that.
▪ Today, that could land you in front of a war crimes tribunal.
▪ External pressure for an independent, international war crimes tribunal has been rebuffed.
▪ Milosevic has been indicted by the U.N. war crimes tribunal.
▪ If it ever comes to a war crimes tribunal for him, our town can provide a few witnesses for the prosecution.
victim
▪ At a ceremony at the Capitol to honor crime victims, Gov.
▪ Officials were required to obtain such a statement under a federal program for crime victims.
war
▪ It was set up after a three-year campaign by an all-party war crimes group.
▪ Milosevic has been indicted by the U.N. war crimes tribunal.
▪ Others have spoken of war crimes and reparations.
▪ The outside world talks of a war crimes tribunal but nobody supposes that anything will come of that.
▪ The new democratic regime has carried out very few investigations into war crimes.
▪ The conspiracy succeeded in frustrating the United Nations war crimes investigation.
▪ He is also indicted for war crimes.
wave
▪ Along with other rural areas, the villages have suffered a crime wave recently.
▪ On Wednesday, he said he will help Maskhadov fight a postwar crime wave.
▪ He believes the police are overstretched and moves are urgently needed to tackle Darlington's crime wave.
▪ He was part of a crime wave that shot up a house, robbed some one and then killed some one else.
▪ A supposed crime wave is sweeping the land.
▪ The crime wave that spurred them has been falling steadily in times of greater economic prosperity.
▪ He concludes that changes in genetic factors obviously can not explain the crime wave.
▪ The election-year crime wave is starting in Congress.
youth
▪ These predictions have yet to materialise, and youth crime rates have been on the decline for several years.
▪ Anyone wishing to tackle crime rates must pay enormous attention to youth crime because of its sheer scale.
▪ Painfully little has been done specifically to tackle car crime, which is a major aspect of youth crime.
▪ There is a tidal wave of youth crime, and the Government have not begun to answer it.
▪ They blame youth crime on unemployment and lack of respect for the law.
▪ Voice over Joyriding is the youth crime of the 90s.
▪ There is a national crisis of youth crime, but the Bill does not deal with its roots.
■ VERB
accuse
▪ But it should apply to the accused too until the crime is proved.
▪ This is not about depriving people accused of crimes of their legitimate rights, including the presumption of innocence.
▪ Two prisoners are accused of a crime.
▪ Weeks later, on July 12, 1986, Hall and her then-husband, Peter, were accused of the crime.
▪ Oh, nobody can accuse me of a crime.
▪ The subjects of the investigation have not been accused of any crimes.
▪ He had not been accused of a crime, yet Curtis Brown spent 10 of his last days in a jail cell.
allege
▪ Military prosecutors have brought charges in only eight alleged crimes against Chechen civilians.
▪ Ratko Mladic, are brought to justice for alleged war crimes.
charge
▪ He is charged with 20 war crimes, including genocide and crimes against humanity.
▪ President Lazaro Cardenas outlawed casinos during his 1934-1940 term in office, charging they promoted crime and vice.
▪ Their goal is not money, but freedom for a client charged with a crime he did not commit.
▪ The 17-year-old has not been charged with the crime.
▪ On the other hand, every person charged with a crime is entitled to testify to his own intentions.
▪ The farmers, in Buner, an area controlled by the government, were charged with the crime of growing opium.
▪ She was not under arrest, nor charged with any crime.
combat
▪ Breeders have established their own intelligence network in a bid to combat the crime.
▪ Vasconcellos has long argued that to combat crime, the state should attack the root causes, such as low self-esteem.
▪ Murders too were more frequent, and in order to combat the rising crime rate parliament introduced a psychological deterrent.
▪ To combat crime effectively, the police need the full support of the Government and the public.
▪ Tonight he starts his series of reports with a look at how to combat crime.
▪ He supported the demand for private farmers to be allowed the use of firearms to combat rising crime against them.
▪ The long-term strategy to combat knife crimes through schemes like Operation Blade is to achieve a change in the law.
▪ The police are increasingly looking to technology - and to information technology in particular - to help them combat increasing crime.
commit
▪ Women nevertheless do commit crimes and contribute to the tariff of most offence categories.
▪ Vista Unified School District trustees became so concerned that they now expel students caught committing hate crimes.
▪ Perpetrators of such crimes are legally permitted shorter prison terms than those who commit similar crimes for other reasons.
▪ There is a general belief that police commit nearly as many crimes as they prevent or solve.
▪ Those are the people who commit most car crime and who take away and drive away most motor vehicles.
▪ Mesa was acquitted a year later of committing a crime on the two women.
▪ Male speaker A lot of law-abiding youngsters may feel the way to get a holiday is to commit a crime.
▪ We do not intend to commit any crimes.
convict
▪ Table 3.1 below shows the ratio of females to males convicted for certain crimes and makes clear the male domination of criminality.
▪ Years after the bombing, a former Klansman was convicted of the crime.
▪ The nightmare of being wrongly accused and convicted of a crime certainly sends shivers down my spine.
▪ Naturalization Service improperly permitted naturalization of immigrants convicted of serious crimes.
▪ The state executes drug smugglers, murderers, rapists and those convicted of other violent crimes.
▪ All but one had been convicted for violent crimes.
▪ Eight or nine men are convicted of crimes for every single female.
▪ He was convicted of 23 crimes and paroled in 1994.
fight
▪ And pleas from his predecessor for 50 more officers to fight crime have so far gone unanswered by the Home Office.
▪ The latest announcement was part of a series of programs the president has embraced since January to fight teen crime.
▪ It's a return to the old way of the community helping to fight crime.
▪ Neither are his ideas on fighting crime and courting voters.
▪ And 51 percent rated it above fighting crime.
▪ Male speaker It's important to discuss with the public how they can help the police to fight crime.
▪ He said the plans form part of a nationwide battle Fox has launched to fight corruption and crime.
involve
▪ Police work is only marginally involved in crime.
▪ Of necessity, some become involved in organized crime to survive.
▪ They are alleged to have dealt in drugs in the Milton Keynes and Aylesbury areas and were involved in car crime.
▪ Several Chinatown leaders have denied the Hip Sing is involved in crime.
▪ The feature-length pilot involved a number of crimes, strung like colourful washing on a line.
▪ Traces of more than 37, 000 guns from those cities show that Ring of Fire guns were often involved in crime.
▪ Most often they are involved in crimes against property - shop-lifting, burglary, vandalism.
▪ The program, popular in many departments, involves working to stop crime at its roots.
organize
▪ And war must be waged on organized crime.
▪ No, the smugglers were mostly from organized crime cartels based in Bombay.
▪ Of necessity, some become involved in organized crime to survive.
▪ The old joke went: Q.. What do they call organized crime in Oklahoma?
▪ The property claim signals prosecutors' intention to dismantle what they consider an organized crime syndicate.
▪ And I was thinking it was organized crime.
reduce
▪ His immediate focus is on eliminating high-level corruption and reducing violent crime.
▪ He noted that New York City had crime problems and that officials there successfully reduced crime without federal intervention.
▪ A little religion is thought, furthermore, to be the way to reduce crime and promote a stable society.
▪ A side benefit, according to the Dallas Police Force: reduced crime rates.
▪ The exact relationship between these objectives and reducing crime will depend on the specification of the programme and on the individual participant.
▪ Many people also stressed the need for increasing job opportunities and reducing crime in their neighborhoods.
▪ If in his new post as security overseer he can reduce crime, well and good.
▪ It is doubtful that such a new constitutional protection would do much to reduce crime.
report
▪ The recorded figures exaggerate the increase in victimization which is occurring, mainly because of a greater public propensity to report certain crimes.
▪ Only one in 10 rape victims reports the crime to authorities, he noted.
▪ It is hoped that this will make people feel safer and encourage them to report crimes.
▪ The biggest criticism was leveled against transit administrators for not following law enforcement standards for reporting crime.
▪ You should note that the penal codes of some nations impose time limits for the reporting of crime.
▪ And statewide, only 215 of 750 law enforcement agencies reported any hate crimes.
▪ So do not lose any more time in reporting this crime.
▪ The reported incidence of this crime rose 28. 6 percent between 1974 and 1983, more than any other major offense.
rise
▪ New Right philosophies, as applied in Britain, also exploited rising popular anxieties about crime and delinquency.
▪ Kids Count also reports a 47 percent rise in juvenile violent crime arrests since 1985.
solve
▪ Will Robin solve the fiendish crimes?
▪ The two casts of characters, although ostensibly cooperating to solve a crime of mutual interest, detest each other.
▪ The role of the press is rarely condemnatory of the police and usually supportive of the official efforts to solve crime.
▪ Koch decides once again to solve the crime.
▪ Besides, he reasoned, he might even get closer to solving the crime this way.
▪ He made no headway, came not one step closer to solving the crime.
▪ Sometimes they are keen to have media help in solving a crime, other times they are more reluctant.
▪ He has vowed to solve the crime almost as often as he has vowed to resume the life he used to live.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
capital offence/crime
▪ It is capital crime, and a black disgrace to the races of civilized mankind.
▪ Loss of privileges in peacetime; in war, a capital offence.
▪ New capital crimes would include the use of firearms; hostage-taking; torture; sale of drugs to minors and racketeering.
▪ No government has ever made abortion a capital crime or executed either a pregnant woman or an abortionist for murder.
▪ The word from Lilongwe now is that Chihana will be charged with sedition, a capital offence.
catalogue of mistakes/crimes/cruelty etc
copycat crime/attack etc
▪ However, 44% of you feel that these reports should leave the gory details out and 39% feel they encourage copycat crimes.
▪ What about fingerprints, copycat crimes and serial murders?
crime-buster/budget-buster/sanctions-buster etc
crime-busting/union-busting/budget-busting etc
partners in crime
▪ Imagine two criminals, partners in crime, who are arrested and placed in separate cells with no means of communication.
petty crime
▪ As the years had progressed a series of petty crimes had seen him in remand homes, borstals and finally prison.
▪ He has convictions there for a number of theft and similar petty crime offences since leaving St Patrick's.
▪ How do three-strikers endure the thought of spending life in prison for a relatively petty crime?
▪ If the government no longer differentiates between petty crime and murder, why should they?
▪ Johnson had two prior convictions for residential burglaries and a history of petty crimes.
▪ Stretched to the limit ... police chief says petty crime is going unchecked.
▪ There's petty crime and crime on a grand scale, well organised.
white-collar crime
▪ But white-collar crime seems to be the new image of the law profession.
▪ Crimes which are committed by those in higher positions in the social stratification system are commonly referred to as white-collar crimes.
▪ Edwin Sutherland's famous pioneering work in 1940 produced evidence that white-collar crime might be substantially underestimated in official criminal statistics.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Crime is a complex social problem with no single cause or solution.
▪ Compared to most cities, Cedar Rapids has very little crime.
▪ He was sentenced to 25 years in prison for rape and other sexual crimes against women.
▪ Increasing the number of patrol cars on the street has not had any effect on the level of serious crime.
▪ Investigators believe that the crime was committed at around 7.30 p.m.
▪ Not surprisingly, the police say that 50% of serious crimes are drug-related.
▪ Reynolds became involved in petty crime at a very young age.
▪ The demonstrators called on the governor to make solving the crime a priority.
▪ the growing problem of crime in the inner cities
▪ The number of crimes reported in the New York City area has decreased dramatically over the last ten years.
▪ Violent crime increased by 11% last year.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For everyone there is a problem in understanding the nature of the crime when no motive can be identified.
▪ He called for making payment delinquency a felony crime in some cases.
▪ In his past, however, there is an unsolved crime that continues to torment him.
▪ The agency also recently hosted a meeting of prefectural police to coordinate investigations into crimes tied to the bad loans.
▪ The cops believe they have both participated in an alleged crime and wish to get one or both to give evidence.
▪ The police would let him use their files because he usually brought back good tips from the crime underworld.