The phrase "perpetrate crimes" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means to commit or carry out illegal or immoral acts. Example: The notorious gang was known to perpetrate crimes such as robbery, murder, and drug trafficking.
BERLIN — In Poland, the president signs a law criminalizing anyone who dares suggest that the country's citizens helped perpetrate crimes of the Holocaust.
Cybercrime has become prevalent as thieves, hucksters, predators, child pornographers, terrorists, drug cartels and even foreign powers have used the anonymity of the so-called "deep web" to perpetrate crimes.
As such, they bolstered the more unfavorable view of teen-age girls as irresponsible, irrational, and unreliable, despite the fact that, in reality, teen-age girls are the least likely to perpetrate crimes against children in their care.
That is why, among a clutch of reforms tailored to bring the country closer to European norms and approved in parliament last week, there was a proposal to scrap an article of the penal code that allows reduced sentences for those who perpetrate crimes of honour.But that might not be enough.
Noting that it would apply to only a tiny number of people, he said, "Let's be clear about what it is: designed to keep people from continuing to perpetrate crimes through their lawyers' sometimes unwitting cooperation, by using the lawyer as a conduit for information and instructions or a means of signaling to individuals outside".
Certain criminals require passports other than their own to perpetrate crimes.
He believes the Waco incident confounds our expectations regarding the race and geographic location of people who perpetrate crime, causing us to see biker gangs as more of a "curiosity" than a threat.
At various times in the modern era, American leaders have negotiated with oppressive regimes, including some that have perpetrated crimes far worse than any the Iranian mullahs have committed.
Bangladesh executed two senior opposition leaders earlier this month for perpetrating crimes against humanity during the country's savage 1971 war of independence from Pakistan.
The British held two major trials against the top German war criminals who had perpetrated crimes during the Italian campaign.
A U.N. panel this week accused Eritrea of perpetrating crimes against humanity against their citizens.
