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動詞

no-crime (三人称単数 現在形 no-crimes, 現在分詞 no-criming, 過去形および過去分詞形 no-crimed)

1. (chiefly Britain) To determine that an alleged crime, especially a sexual assault or rape, should not be prosecuted as a crime (e.g. because the victim has withdrawn their complaint).
   • 1989, Lorna J. F. Smith, Great Britain. Home Office. Research and Planning Unit, Concerns about rape, HMSO Books:

     Nevertheless, if the recommendations of the Working Party had been strictly observed, no reported cases in 1986 should have been 'no-crimed' on the basis of the victim withdrawing her complaint.

   • 2004, J. Jordan, The Word of a Woman?: Police, Rape and Belief, Springer (→ISBN), page 63:

     Gregory and Lees (1999) suggest that, in contrast, the high rates of 'no criming' for rape and sexual assault demonstrate the low priority attached by the police to these offences.

   • 2014, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee, Caught Red Handed: Why We can't Count on Police Recorded Crime Statistics - HC 760, The Stationery Office (→ISBN), page 16:

     According to these figures, in Lincolnshire, for example, 26% of all reported rapes were no-crimed in 2012–13 and 20% were no-crimed in 2011–12. This contrasts with Merseyside, where 4% reported rape crimes were no-crimed in 2012–13 ...

   • 2014, Karen Rich, Interviewing Rape Victims: Practice and Policy Issues in an International Context, Springer (→ISBN):

     Of cases reported, half to two-thirds are “no-crimed” or, in US parlance, “unfounded” or determined to be “baseless” by the police (Brown, 2010; Kelly et al., 2010).

   Synonym: unfound (米国用法)