Could anyone provide any quantitative evidence showing that the attributes
of individuals have absolutely no impact on behavior when social contexts
are identical (controlled)? If high-rate violent offenders are placed into
a prison where the social structure is identical for all, will these
offenders have the same rate of prison rule violations as the low rate
property offenders placed in the cells next to them?
Even if crime might best be explained using social variables, and even if
designations of criminality are unjustly imposed on the powerless by the
powerful to some degree, does this rule out the effect of individual
differences completely?