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

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

Emile Durkheim

Ohio State University, Columbus

- Applying sociological theories to understanding crime

Criminological-Sociological Theory Definition

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

Criminology

- Social Structure Theories
- Social Process Theories


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