Artist's second record admitted by criminal court (8)
I believe the answer is:
sculptor
'artist's' is the definition.
(sculptor is a kind of artist)
'second record admitted by criminal court' is the wordplay.
'second' becomes 's' (common abbreviation).
'record' becomes 'lp' (L-P is an example).
'admitted by' is an insertion indicator.
'criminal' indicates an anagram.
'court' is an anagram of 'cutor'.
'lp' placed into 'cutor' is 'culptor'.
's'+'culptor'='SCULPTOR'
(Other definitions for sculptor that I've seen before include "Artist carving stone or wood" , "Artist in stone, bronze etc" , "A carver of statuary" , "Rodin or Rowan Gillespie, say" , "Artist - pro cults (anag)" .)