Crime is on the increase.

犯罪活动日益猖獗。

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Crime is on the increase in big cities.

大城市里的犯罪在逐渐增加。

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Therefore, it is of great significance both in academic and practical aspect to research on economic crime with economic viewpoint, which lower the criminal earnings by increase the criminal costs.

因此，用经济学的观点研究经济犯罪，通过提高经济犯罪的成本，降低犯罪收益，从而治理经济犯罪，具有理论和实践意义。

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Mr Zedillo has had to face both a surge in petty crime, which is blamed on the economic crisis, and an increase in organised crime: especially in drug-trafficking, after the relative weakening of the Colombian drug gangs allowed more room for Mexican ones.

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Serious crime in Arabia, once almost unheard of, is now on the increase.

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