ABSTRACT
From Quetelet, L.A.J. (1842). A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (pp. 82-96). Trans. Dr. R. Knox, FRSE. Edinburgh: W. and R. Chambers.
Supposing men to be placed in similar circumstances, I call the greater or less probability of committing crime, the propensity to crime. My object is more especially to investigate the influence of season, climate, sex, and age, on this propensity.
