paracriminal

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paracriminal (not comparable)

  1. Associated with or profiting from crime without actually being illegal.
    • 1977, Valeriĭ Chalidze, Criminal Russia: Essays on Crime in the Soviet Union, page 50:
      The only exception is the paracriminal class already mentioned, the fences and other middlemen who enable thieves to be in society but not of it.
    • 2005, Gerd Junne, Willemijn Verkoren, Postconflict Development: Meeting New Challenges, page 193:
      Different types of paracriminal activities increase with reduced law enforcement.
    • 2018, Robert Tynes, Tools of War, Tools of State: When Children Become Soldiers, page 48:
      Many of the youth became saboteurs while others became “paracriminal juveniles” (Kater, 2004, p. 115)
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