Posted by Anonymous on Monday, October 5, 2009 at 12:24pm.
There are a few.
And books have been written. Have you read Crime and Punishment? It is a classic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_and_Punishment
Entire college courses in criminology exist on the subject. Many sociologists examine the lives of criminals, and the factors that seem to commonly popup.
The biggest assumption is that there are "causes" of crime.
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