We might even predict annually how many individuals will stain their hands with the blood of their fellow-men, how many will be forgers, how many will deal in poison, pretty nearly in the same way as we may foretell annual births and deaths.

— Adolphe Quetelet A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842)

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