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Roughly arresting sons for crime (13)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

transgression

'crime' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'roughly arresting sons' is the wordplay.
'roughly' indicates an anagram.
'arresting'+'sons'='arrestingsons'
'arrestingsons' with letters rearranged gives 'TRANSGRESSION'.

'for' is the link.

(Other definitions for transgression that I've seen before include "Offence" , "Wrongdoing" , "something bad going on?" , "Wrong" , "Infringement; sin" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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