其他犯罪学家认为上述发现如果理由充分，就应该适用于所有的刑事规则：刑法设立的禁区时时都在被人打破。 但如果根本没有这些禁区，犯罪行为就会更为猖獗。
Other criminologists argue that this finding, if well-founded, should then apply to any criminal law: every day, criminal prohibitions are infringed; yet if we did not have such prohibitions, crimes would be even more rampant.