Neighbourhoods beset by crime in global region (3,3,4)

'global region' is the definition.
(the Far East is a region of the globe)

'neighbourhoods beset by crime' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'neighbourhoods' could be 'areas' and 'areas' is found in the answer.
'crime' could be 'theft' (theft is a kind of crime) and 'theft' is present in the leftover letters.
This accounts for all the letters.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

'in' acts as a link.