Suffered being related to criminal (9)
I believe the answer is:
tolerated
'suffered' is the definition.
('tolerate' can be a synonym of 'suffer')
'related to criminal' is the wordplay.
'criminal' indicates anagramming the letters.
'related'+'to'='relatedto'
'relatedto' is an anagram of 'TOLERATED'.
'being' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for tolerated that I've seen before include "Borne" , "Put up with" , "Bore" , "accepted?" , "Countenanced" .)