TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1986//
TI  - A note on quetelet and the development of criminological statistics
JO  - Journal of criminal justice
A1  - Beirne, Piers
SP  - 459
EP  - 462
VL  - 14
IS  - 5
N2  - 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 /> 
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SN  - 0047-2352
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0047-2352(86)90113-3
ID  - ref1
ER  -