The most urgent need of criminology is that of statistics. The Chicago Council Committee on Crime (34) emphasizes the fact that the police and judicial statistics of Chicago are wholly inadequate and incomplete; and urges the collection and publication of the numbers of crimes known to the police, frequency of these crimes, number of habitual offenders, number discharged who have been arrested and tried and who have been held in the police station or county jail, length of the term of persons sentenced, amount of fine, nationality, occupation, and age of offender, and disposition made of him. Koren (27) advocates
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