The phrase 'young criminal' is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
You can use it when referring to minors who have committed a crime. For example: "The young criminal was brought before the court and given a harsh sentence."
Young, criminal men of migratory background have been a hot topic in Germany recently.
A young criminal mastermind must team up with his adversaries, the fairies, to save his father.
As a young criminal, he had been given valuable advice by his oyabun, the "foster parent" within his gang.
It broadened by the '20s and '30s to signify a young criminal, an adolescent boy or a coward.
The father of a young criminal mastermind wants him to give up his life outside the law; he resists.
And it must decide whether her now graying husband was a hapless victim of circumstance or a young criminal genius.
(In these cases, he sometimes tangled with Willie Brown, then a young criminal-defense lawyer, who defended many prostitutes in the early sixties.
(In these cases, he sometimes tangled with Willie Brown, then a young criminal-defense lawyer, who defended many prostitutes in the early sixties. In the intertwined way of San Francisco politics, Brown was also a character witness for Hallinan during his long struggle to be admitted to the bar).
And then it hit me — these young criminals cared more about art than I did!
Does this make Just for Kids Law a bleeding heart operation, lavishing attention on young criminals?
While most commenters praised youth courts for taking a humane approach, reader Beliavsky from Boston (7) wrote, "Letting young criminals (excuse me, 'troubled youths') be judged by other young criminals does not seem right to me.
