@article{ref1,
title="A note on quetelet and the development of criminological statistics",
journal="Journal of criminal justice",
year="1986",
author="Beirne, Piers",
volume="14",
number="5",
pages="459-462",
abstract="This Note clarifies several ambiguities in the claims that Salas and Surette (1984) have made about the Belgian criminologist Adolphe Quetelet. Specifically, it suggests that Quetelet (1) never articulated a concept of political relations or of the political state; (2) consistently rejected the need for [`]theoretical' interpretation of empirical [`]data,' (3) borrowed the notion of [`]statistique morale' from French and German moral statisticians, and (4) vacillated between the poles of determinism and free-will philosophy.<p />",
language="",
issn="0047-2352",
doi="10.1016/0047-2352(86)90113-3",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0047-2352(86)90113-3"
}