Feel for criminal perhaps? (7)
I believe the answer is:
suspect
'feel' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
I cannot understand how the remainder of the clue works.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for suspect that I've seen before include "Have misgivings about" , "Dodgy" , "Distrust, have doubts about" , "person in the dock" , "Doubt truth of" .)