The connection between normlessness and criminal behavior is not at all tight enough upon which to ground either theory or policy. One of the most despicable theories of crime is Control Theory. The USA has some ten well organized control systems yet people routinely engage in a wide variety of crime. The Criminal Justice System, the Private Security System, the Federal Regulatory Agencies, the state welfare system, INS and the Military Justice System join with these and a growing medical control system as well as the traditional juridical processes in organized religion to control and over-control people. All this is new to science in general, criminology in particular and marxian theory in especial.
Social dynamics are far more complex than any theory can say.
One should be careful to keep levels of analysis distinct. If we conflate levels, it becomes easy to justify the criminality of street thugs and corporate mugs. However deep an economic depression becomes, still one need not steal from one's neighbors. However hard it is to get a decent job, still one need not sell drugs to children still less prostitute them to sexually inadequate adults. I do not want to use the word, causes, since most people presume a linearity in the word.