Local criminal regularly goes for artwork (7)
I believe the answer is:
collage
'for artwork' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'local criminal regularly goes' is the wordplay.
'criminal' is an anagram indicator.
'regularly' indicates alternate letters (regularly take one letter, leave next etc.).
The alternate letters of 'goes' are 'ge'.
'local' is an anagram of 'colla'.
'colla'+'ge'='COLLAGE'
(Other definitions for collage that I've seen before include "work of art" , "Art form using glued pieces" , "Style of artwork" , "Pictures made by sticking together pieces of paper etc." , "Composition made by fixing pieces to a surface" .)