Definition of Crimes

1. Noun. (plural of crime) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Crimes

1. crime [n] - See also: crime

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crimes

crimebusters
crimebusting
crimed
crimefighter
crimefighters
crimefighting
crimefree
crimeful
crimeless
crimelike
crimelord
crimelords
crimen
crimenetly
crimeridden
crimes (current term)
crimes against humanity
crimethink
crimeware
crimewave
crimewaves
crimidine
crimina
criminal
criminal-law
criminal-offence
criminal abortion
criminal anthropology
criminal congress

Literary usage of Crimes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Juvenile Offenders & Victims: A National Report by Howard N. Snyder (1995)
"Knowing the number of crimes reported as well as the number of crimes cleared in a year provides an understanding of the proportion of crimes for which an ..."

2. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1921)
"For, although among the acts called war crimes are many which are crimes in the moral sense of the term (such, for instance, as the abuse of a flag of truce ..."

3. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"And therefore the claim of privilege hath been usually guarded with an exception as to the case of indictable crimes;I or, ..."

4. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1910)
"If this could not be done, the change from a territorial condition to that of a state would operate as an automatic amnesty for crimes committed against the ..."

5. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"While the percentages of certain grave crimes increase to mature manhood, adolescence is preeminently the criminal age when most first commitments occur and ..."

6. Juvenile Offenders & Victims: A National Report by Howard N. Snyder (1995)
"Knowing the number of crimes reported as well as the number of crimes cleared in a year provides an understanding of the proportion of crimes for which an ..."

7. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1921)
"For, although among the acts called war crimes are many which are crimes in the moral sense of the term (such, for instance, as the abuse of a flag of truce ..."

8. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"And therefore the claim of privilege hath been usually guarded with an exception as to the case of indictable crimes;I or, ..."

9. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1910)
"If this could not be done, the change from a territorial condition to that of a state would operate as an automatic amnesty for crimes committed against the ..."

10. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"While the percentages of certain grave crimes increase to mature manhood, adolescence is preeminently the criminal age when most first commitments occur and ..."

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