Converse of object

• commit: Can you say what causes people to commit crimes?

• tackle: Our continual focus on tackling this crime has resulted in a significant drop in home burglaries - year on year.

• organize: At the heart of the dispute is Europol, Europe's new police agency, set up to coordinate measures against organized crime.

• reduce: This did reduce crime over the period of the Initiative.

• combat: A total of £ 115,000 has been set aside for initiatives to combat local crime.

• hate: November 02, 2004 @ 10:15 PM Issues: Hate crimes | Organizations: OutRage!

Preposition: against

• humanity: The mistake would be to respond to one-off crimes against humanity by destroying that which made the US distinct in the first place.

Adjective modifier

• violent: Police say reports of nuisance are up; violent crime is on the increase; hard drugs are rife.

• recorded: See ' Long-term trends - National recorded crime ' for charts showing long-term trends in recorded crime.

• serious: What was required was another form of punishment for serious crimes.

• drug-related: These are daunting statistics, yet they point to one potential solution to drug-related crime.

• homophobic: The Constabulary has sent out questionnaires to every victim of racist and homophobic crime.

• alcohol-related: They have a right to public services that combat alcohol-related crime, disorder, and anti-social behavior.

Modifies a noun

• prevention: Your first call should be to your crime prevention officer at your local police station.

• reduction: Crime reduction is not just the job of the police.

Noun used with modifier

• hate: The Open Out Scheme [ Local ] Reporting hate crime.

• gun: These include groups dealing with transport crime, anti-social behavior and gun crime.

• knife: Eugene McAteer, Manchester Prisons don't prevent crime Does anyone seriously believe that increasing sentences will solve the problem of knife crime?

• youth: There is an urgent need for a review of the legislation and an honest debate about the realities of youth crime.