Criminal record held by rogue facing appeal (7)
I believe the answer is:
culprit
'criminal' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'record held by rogue facing appeal' is the wordplay.
'record' becomes 'lp' (abbreviation for long play record).
'held by' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'rogue' becomes 'cur' (both can mean a despicable person).
'facing' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'appeal' becomes 'it' ('it' can mean something attractive or appealing).
'lp' put inside 'cur' is 'culpr'.
'culpr'+'it'='CULPRIT'
(Other definitions for culprit that I've seen before include "one awaiting trial" , "The person to blame, the guilty one" , "Criminal" , "Person responsible for wrongdoing" , "he should have conviction" .)