%0 Journal Article
%T A note on quetelet and the development of criminological statistics
%J Journal of criminal justice
%D 1986
%A Beirne, Piers
%V 14
%N 5
%P 459-462
%X 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 />
%G 
%I Elsevier Publishing
%@ 0047-2352
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0047-2352(86)90113-3