0 used for describing an area where there is a lot of crime:
Communities become wary of the stranger in a crime-ridden society and non-state policing is the method chosen by many for securing exclusion.
Parents who lack the resources to move their families surely are not culpable for continuing to live in crime-ridden or politically volatile areas.
The city c. 1930 is imagined as having been especially hedonistic, exciting, crime-ridden, fast-paced, fashionable and cosmopolitan.
He has done this against the odds of a failing economy, a crime-ridden city, stay-athome audiences and fragile political relationships.
One of the most widespread stereotypes about modern urban life claims that it is more dangerous and crime-ridden than life in the country.
For children lower in effortful control, disorderly, crowded, dangerous, and crime-ridden environments may be particularly detrimental.
Do parents who live in crime-ridden inner cities and vulnerable outposts have a moral obligation to abandon their homes, neighbors, and social ideals for safer places?
My constituency is one of the most crime-ridden areas in one of the most crime-ridden cities in the country.
