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In 1849, social activist and statistician Joseph Fletcher published , with counties shaded to depict a range of social measures.
Most famous was his map of ignorance. In lesser hands, this could have been used to make invidious comparisons – but Fletcher had more profound goals. He juxtaposed this map with one of crime and observed that “the darkest tints of ignorance go with those of crime”.
Fletcher advocated improving education to reduce ignorance and thence crime. In the century and a…
