Example sentences of "have [be] victims [prep] crime " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , while they do show that official statistics tend to underestimate the amount of crime , it is likely that victim studies also under-record the amount — mostly because people can only report having been victims of crime if they know that they have been victimised . |
| 2 | The Merseyside Crime Survey found , for example , that 44 per cent of interviewees had been victims of crime in the last twelve months , and a quarter had been victimized twice or more . |
| 3 | Victim or victimisation studies are designed to investigate the number of individuals who have been victims of crime . |
| 4 | Not so , says Helen Peggs , spokeswoman for Victim Support , which aims to support those people who have been victims of crime . |
| 5 | FOUR out of five shopkeepers in Dublin have been victims of crime , a new survey has revealed . |