"committing crime" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to indicate that someone has carried out an unlawful act. For example: "The criminal was found guilty of committing crime."
Illegal immigrants convicted of committing crime get to stay – collecting social security benefits, skipping the line".
In rare cases, executed bodies have been displayed in public to deter others from committing crime.
He's just one lawyer in one post-industrial town, describing a national policy: of starving the poor into committing crime.
He remembers: "After three months of meeting and supporting each other, we weren't taking drugs and committing crime".
People in their late teens and early 20's are in the prime years for committing crime, statistics show.
Decriminalisation would end the violent illegal drug trade; drug treatment and prescription for addicts would prevent them from committing crime.
The issue was resolved by Cumbria constabulary, who admitted the officer had "targeted" Taraq "to deter him from committing crime".
It has created a situation in which some of the most marginalised people in our society are committing crime to fund their addiction.
"It's close to a perfect correlation between who is committing crime and who is being stopped," Celeste Koeleveld, the deputy Corporation Counsel who is supervising the defense, said.
On the basis of the news reports, more and more people began to believe that the Mexican American youths, particularly the zoot-suiters, were predisposed to committing crime.
But it is tempting, when I'm sat there with no food, to just go out there and make some money [by committing crime].
