The phrase "absurd crime" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a crime that is considered ridiculous, unreasonable, or nonsensical in nature.
Example: "The defendant was charged with an absurd crime that left the jury questioning the validity of the charges."
Alternatives: "ridiculous offense" or "preposterous act".
He is accused of an absurd crime which clearly none of the Arctic 30 are guilty of committing.
And if that doesn't seem like the most absurd crime of them all, I don't know what.
Related: Detained US Student Admits 'Very Severe' — And Totally Absurd — Crime in North Korea.
"It's the city I dreamed of when I was a kid, despite my parents telling me — or maybe because of my parents telling me — that it was full of crazy people". Nathan Hill won the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction for "The Nix," about a college professor who uncovers buried family secrets when his mother, who abandoned her family when he was a boy, is accused of committing an absurd crime.
To me, the fact that two mafia bosses were acquitted while their lawyer was convicted for mafia-related crime seemed absurd.
Similarly, Nobel prize winning US economist Joseph Stiglitz used terms such as "absurd", "crazy" and "a crime" to describe some of Hockey's budget measures, and dismissed the perceived debt and deficit problems, noting that any Australian who worries about debt "must be out of their mind".
Over the years, he started to think it was absurd that a misdemeanor crime would put him on a travel watch list for life.
The notion that people should resign from foundations and refuse to speak in public in order to avoid any connection to a former radical never convicted of a crime is absurd.
Relatives of the detained Chinese artist Ai Weiwei have denounced an official report that he is suspected of economic crimes as "absurd".
Genet's play, written in 1949 and later revised, deals, as Martin Esslin observed in The Theatre of the Absurd, with the hierarchy of crime.
As absurd as it sounds, including "Crime and Punishment" in the prosecution's evidence is logically consistent with the current arguments for censorship, which revolve around the question of representation, and claim that portraying violence on the page or on the screen is enough to corrupt the audience, regardless of intention or message.
