The tables of criminality for different ages, given in my published treatise, merit at least as much faith as the tables of mortality, and verify themselves within perhaps even narrower limits; so that crime pursues its path with even more constancy than death.

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

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