An estimated 100 women in Britain are engaged to American criminals on death row.

"At the time, it seemed to have nothing to do with anything except American criminals," Boeckel said.

They put American criminals forever in their debt.

I learned to hold contempt for individuals of brutish caliber - the type which constitutes the average American criminal.

Nadine eventually becomes the property of Norman Stone, an American criminal who is on the run from the police.

One of the things that he had been called on to straighten out was a hiding place for an American criminal, fleeing prosecution.

Arthur Williams, 63, American criminal, head injury from car crash.

They thought he was an American criminal, especially when he wouldn't stop the car he was driving.

Perhaps the most plausible explanation offered is this: American criminals increasingly tend to commit violent crimes rather than non-violent ones.

By the middle of the 20th century, the term was used among American criminals.