As the first scientific criminologist, Adolphe Quintelet's work is most note worthy because:________.A. His work dis-proved the long-held notion that crime was related to the lunar cycles.B. He was the first criminologist to identify the weaknesses to relying on official crime statistics.C. He was the first criminologist to draw a connection between capitalism and crime.D. His observation that crime was linked to other variables called into question the notion of free will.

Adolphe Quetelet (1796-1874) was a Belgian statistician and sociologist who was influential in developing statistical methods for the social sciences. One area where Quetelet was most influential was in criminology. He and Andre-Michel Guerry were among the first to really use statistics to explain social pathologies which led to the professional and academic development of the field of criminology. These were novel approaches that used statistical techniques to break down the other social factors that contributed to crime. He found that factors like age and gender had a strong impact on the likelihood of criminal activity. Other factors he published in regard to the propensity toward crime were climate and level of education, socioeconomic status, as well as alcohol consumption.