(criminology) Someone who studies crime science, especially someone who does so professionally.

(criminology) The study of crime in order to find ways to prevent it.

That establishes stricter criminal penalties as a reaction to violent and property crime.

Alternative form of crimewave

(chiefly UK) A police patrol car.

plural of crime car

If the murdered corpse cannot be found, a person cannot be charged with murder. / (by extension) An accusation cannot be made without evidence.

Non-violent crime, generally for personal gain and often involving money.

(now chiefly law) A very destructive and immoral act; later specifically, something causing widespread human misery or loss of life; an atrocity.

(law) Any of various sexual deviations that, at one time or another, have been considered to be so unnatural as to be illegal.