Aircraft carriers would complement cruisers in an interwar piracy campaign

Would cruiser-sized aircraft carriers be better than sloops and cruisers against rampant small-boat piracy in the Great Depression?

They would be useful, but most effective as aviation support for cruisers and sloops with different policing roles.

A cruiser-sized carrier would be useful against widespread small-boat piracy in this interwar scenario. British experience in the South China Sea suggests that carriers and cruisers have different value in the role. More carriers might therefore be built to work alongside the cruisers. The proposed force combines those capabilities without treating either ship type as a complete substitute for the other.