The theory has not been used to explain organized crime, corporate crime, or deviant behavior that takes place outside neighborhood settings.

A widely used theory to explain crime is crime pattern theory.

The condemned man is given no name, nor is it explained what crime he has committed.

A large number of narrow and broad theories have been proposed for explaining crime.

Many other reasons are invoked to explain crime, and other problems associated with Japan's youth.

It has been used to explain violence and crime.

It is used by psychoanalyst criminologists to explain crime.

Rather than explaining crime, mental disorder redefines it as something else.

In practice, it is difficult to see how learning theories could explain crime without any reference to invention.

As a result, many scholars became preoccupied with describing how high unemployment rates or social oppression explained crime.