Crime brings happiness to part of Yorkshire (9)
I believe the answer is:
joyriding
'crime brings' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.
'happiness to part of yorkshire' is the wordplay.
'happiness' becomes 'joy' (I have seen 'Great happiness ' mean 'joy' so perhaps 'happiness' could also mean 'joy').
'to part of yorkshire' becomes 'riding' (term for a regional division of Yorkshire).
'joy'+'riding'='JOYRIDING'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for joyriding that I've seen is " "Sport" of car thieves".)