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Meaning of "street crime" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF STREET CRIME

street crime  [striːt kraɪm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF STREET CRIME

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Street crime is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES STREET CRIME MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Street crime

Street Crime is a loose term for any criminal offense in a public place. According to London's Metropolitan Police Force, Robbery, often called 'mugging', and thefts from victims in the street where their property is snatched and the victim is not assaulted is also considered street crime. Other examples of street crime include pickpocketing, the open illegal drugs trade, prostitution in the form of soliciting outside the law, the creation of graffiti and vandalism of public property, and assaults. As a generic term, street crime may include all of these, as well as offenses against private properties such as the stealing of hub caps. The majority of street crimes, as portrayed by various news media, are initiated by criminals seeking quick financial gains. However, street crimes they can also be carried out by organized individuals with a common goal of profiteering. On the other hand, not all of these instances are considered by the FBI to be "organized crimes" due to the random nature of the crimes themselves. The term "organized crime" does not often include organized street crimes.

Definition of street crime in the English dictionary

The definition of street crime in the dictionary is a crime, for example mugging and pick-pocketing, that is carried out in a public place.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH STREET CRIME


anticrime
ˌæntɪˈkraɪm
autocrime
ˈɔːtəʊˌkraɪm
becrime
bɪˈkraɪm
begrime
bɪˈɡraɪm
berhyme
bɪˈraɪm
crime
kraɪm
cybercrime
ˈsaɪbəˌkraɪm
grime
ɡraɪm
isocryme
ˈaɪsəʊˌkraɪm
monorhyme
ˈmɒnəʊˌraɪm
noncrime
ˌnɒnˈkraɪm
pararhyme
ˈpærəˌraɪm
prime
praɪm
reprime
riːˈpraɪm
rhyme
raɪm
rime
raɪm
subprime
ˈsʌbˌpraɪm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE STREET CRIME

street accident
street Arab
street child
street cleaner
street cred
street credibility
street cry
street directory
street door
street fighting
street furniture
street guide
street justice
street level
street lighting
street luge
street map
street market
street number
street party

WORDS THAT END LIKE STREET CRIME

car crime
computer crime
e-crime
gun crime
hate crime
organized crime
petty crime
terze rime
victimless crime
war crime
white-collar crime
youth crime

Synonyms and antonyms of street crime in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «street crime» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF STREET CRIME

Find out the translation of street crime to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of street crime from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «street crime» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

街头犯罪
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

crimen de la calle
570 millions of speakers

English

street crime
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सड़क अपराध
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

جرائم الشوارع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

уличная преступность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

crime de rua
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

রাস্তার অপরাধ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

crime rue
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Jenayah jalanan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Straßenkriminalität
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

路上犯罪
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

길거리 범죄
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Werna angkara
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tội phạm đường phố
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தெரு குற்றம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

रस्त्यावर गुन्हा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sokak suçu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

criminalità di strada
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

street Crime
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

вулична злочинність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

criminalității stradale
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εγκληματικότητα του δρόμου
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

straat misdaad
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

gatuvåld
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

street kriminalitet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of street crime

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «STREET CRIME»

The term «street crime» is regularly used and occupies the 70.020 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «STREET CRIME» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about street crime

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STREET CRIME»

Discover the use of street crime in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to street crime and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Street Crime
This book gathers together, under one cover, many of the most important journal articles of the last 20 years on the subject of street crime, with particular focus on gangs, drugs and violence.
Mike Maguire, 1996
2
Street Crime
more specifically the objective of this enquiry: what is street crime and how for the purpose of analysis should we define it? Second, to examine how I will approach this objective by describing the structure of the book as well as indicating the ...
Simon Hallsworth, 2013
3
The Politics of Street Crime: Criminal Process and Cultural ...
Stuart Scheingold confronts this cultural contradiction and asks why street crime is generally regarded in the trivializing and punitive images of cops and robbers that attribute crime to the willful acts of flawed individuals rather than ...
Stuart Scheingold, 1992
4
Street Crime Unit: Jagged Streets, Twisted Lives
Avid Crime Story Readers... this book is your next fix. Over ten years in the writing... You'll love the unrivaled action. "Street Crime Unit" fuses daily dramas of law enforcement with twisted humor and a wealth of diverse characters.
Sandra Hall, Donald Burns, 2010
5
Encyclopedia of Street Crime in America
A Chronology provides readers with a historical perspective of street crime in America. Appendices provide sources of data and statistics, annotated to highlight their relevance.
Jeffrey Ian Ross, 2013
6
Treatment Alternatives to Street Crime
Treatment Alternatives to Street Crime (TASC) provides an objective bridge between two separate institutions: the criminal justice system and the drug treatment community.
James A. Inciardi, Duane C. McBride, 1994
7
Losing Legitimacy: Street Crime and the Decline of Social ...
"In the past fifty years, street crime rates in America have increased eightfold. Biological impulses, psychological drives, or slow-moving social indicators cannot explain the speed or timing of these"
Gary LaFree, 1998
8
Law and Order: Street Crime, Civil Unrest, and the Crisis of ...
Law and Order offers a valuable new look at the history of the 1960s, presenting a sophisticated account of how conservatives used the issue of law and order to transform the landscape of American politics.
Michael W. Flamm, 2013
9
Mean Streets: Youth Crime and Homelessness
This field study features intensive personal interviews of more than four hundred young people who have left home and school and are living on the streets of Toronto and Vancouver.
Bill McCarthy, 1998
10
Treatment Alternatives to Street Crime: TASC Programs
Provides an objective and effective bridge between 2 separate institutions: the criminal justice system community and the treatment community.
DIANE Publishing Company, 2004

7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STREET CRIME»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term street crime is used in the context of the following news items.
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Police reveal Beale Street crime statistics
On a weekend with more than 15,000 people on Beale Street, several incidents reported on the street have business owners and Memphis residents frustrated. «WMC Action News 5, May 15»
2
Undercover unit credited with seizing $300K of heroin in Harrisburg …
Attorney General Kathleen Kane announces the final arrest and seizure numbers for her office's Mobile Street Crimes Unit that has been stationed in Harrisburg ... «PennLive.com, Nov 14»
3
In wake of Bourbon Street shootings, Landrieu, Serpas ask for help
The Bourbon Street shootings investigation moved into its third day Tuesday, with ... law enforcement agency that can lend manpower to combat street crime. «The Times-Picayune, Jul 14»
4
Revealed: Benefits Street crime figures in 2013
These are just some of the crime reports police have responded to in the last 12 months in the Winson Green road dubbed Benefits Street. Home Office figures ... «Birmingham Mail, Jan 14»
5
1600 victims a day of street crime
The total number of crimes recorded by police also fell six per cent to 4.1 million. The figures show that crime has dropped by more than 50 per cent since it ... «Express.co.uk, Oct 12»
6
Street crime shock: Muggings and robberies rise 10% as police cuts …
MUGGINGS shot up last year as the slump fuelled the biggest leap in street theft for a decade, new figures revealed yesterday. Robberies, bag snatches ... «Mirror.co.uk, Apr 12»
7
Street crime high on Delhi police agenda
Street crimes, such as snatching, had been high on the Delhi Police agenda during the last six months and in its bid to rein-in petty criminals, the police have ... «India Today, Jul 11»

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