Causes of Crime Author:Arthur E Fink Although American students of criminology had long been familiar with nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century European ideas on the biological factors of crime causation, no systematic presentation of American thought in the field was attempted before Arthur E. Fink's pioneering study in 1938. This study, Causes of Crime, reveals the ast... more »onishing variety and quantity of research on causal factors in human behavior that was done in the period 1800-1915.« less