The phrase "a criminal underclass" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a segment of society that is involved in criminal activities, often characterized by poverty or social marginalization.
Example: "The report highlighted the challenges faced by a criminal underclass in urban areas, emphasizing the need for social reform."
Alternatives: "a criminal subculture" or "an underprivileged criminal group".
The core comes from a criminal underclass and from estates that are poor, productive industries globalised out of existence.
There are two reasons, he said, why welfare is so important: regular benefits keep people out of a criminal underclass and the welfare state allows addicts to kick the habit by bringing stability to their lives.
Set in Hong Kong just before the city's return to Chinese rule, "Flash Point" plays like the last hurrah of a criminal underclass facing the inevitable shrinking of its bottom line.
Clarke told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the prison system was failing to stop a criminal underclass who just commit "more crime" as soon as they come out because underlying problems such as drug abuse and mental illness issues were not being tackled, and a lack of support for those able to "go straight" to get a job.
His comments came as Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke and London Mayor Boris Johnson said the riots were a result of a "broken penal system" which fails to stop "a feral criminal underclass" from reoffending.
These figures, together with information on previous criminal histories, led the Sun to describe the rioters as being part of a "feckless criminal underclass".
The statistics on minors, who comprise 20% of all those convicted of riot offences, undermine claims from justice minister Kenneth Clarke that the riots were caused by a hardcore criminal underclass.
All the more reason, they say, to listen to the views of young people, who are at risk of becoming a permanent criminal underclass after, in some cases, three generations of unemployment.
The author felt that at the time of writing, such social chasms were widening, and drew parallels to the Victorian era as well as to the world of his breakthrough novel Neuromancer (1984) in which there is no middle class, only the super-rich and a predominantly criminal underclass.
The novel was based on fieldwork that Lins, who moved into the area as a seven-year-old boy, had begun for a project on the criminal underclass conducted by a prominent anthropologist, Alba Zaluar.
Briar Wilkes's father may be something of a saint to the criminal underclass living in this steampunk version of 1880s Seattle, but she can never escape the fact that her late husband is the man who brought the deadly Blight to the city, leading to it being sealed away from the rest of the world by a 200ft-high wall.
