There is a lack of hard evidence regarding perpetrators who commit anti-social behaviour and why.
More information needs to be collected.
A recent study identified the following risk factors as increasing the likelihood of criminal or offending behaviour in a community. Whilst these factors cannot be said to be causal factors and indeed some, such as homelessness, may well be an effect of the anti-social behaviour, they do indicate the broad range of issues involved. The factors correspond closely with the results of work undertaken by researchers at Sheffield Hallam University on the recorded vulnerabilities of perpetrators.