The phrase "a continuing crime" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a crime that is ongoing or has not yet been resolved.
Example: "The authorities are investigating a continuing crime that has affected the community for several months."
Alternatives: "an ongoing offense" or "a persistent crime".
"It is what I call a continuing crime".
In 1999 it declared "disappearances" to be a continuing crime until death is proved.
In any event, the seizure was lawful because the documents found were property of the United States and their possession was a continuing crime against the United States.
As a continuing crime, at least theoretically, the 19 kidnappings cannot be covered by the Pinochet government's amnesty, the judge has contended for the last two years.
As a continuing crime, at least theoretically, the 19 kidnappings cannot be covered by the amnesty, Judge Guzman has argued for two years.
He also borrowed a precedent from Chile, where an amnesty law was eventually circumvented with the argument that a continuing crime of kidnapping occurs where the bodies of those taken by death squads have not been found.
But New York City's continuing crime reduction appears to be a fact, not an interpretation.
Detractors say it is ineffective, turning up little criminal activity, and point to the continuing crime drop as proof.
It will fail to curb the Assad regime's continuing crimes against humanity.
Mr. Gillman, 56, who lives in the Gold Coast neighborhood of Chicago, was charged with eight counts, including organizing a continuing financial crimes enterprise, mail fraud, money laundering and theft.
The answers to these questions provide the kind of information that is needed in implementing situational crime prevention and they can only be provided by a continuing program of crime specific research.
