Used social statistics to understand relationships between crime and demography
Found correlations between sex, age, alcohol consumation, climate, season, education, population composition, poverty and crime

Ohio State University, Columbus

2 Founders 

Siegel, L. J. (2000). Criminology. Criminology: Siegel, Larry J: Free Download, Borrow. Wadsworth/Thomson Learning. https://archive.org/details/criminology00sieg. 

Criminology

Adolphe Quetelet


- Crime is a part of all societies because its the result of difference within society
- Crime is good it shows heterogeneity in society and a possible problem that needs to be resolved
- Discussed the anomie or distress created by a shift from a rural society to urban one and the loss of traditional values. He saw increased suicide rates which may have lead to other forms of deviance

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