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The Body Mass Index chart is created by the Belgian statistician Adolphe Quetelet.

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Quetelet, a statistician, looks to define the "average man." He is known as the founder of anthropometry and phrenology, as well as being deeply influential on "positivist criminology," which asserts "the dangerousness of the criminal to be the only measure of the extent to which he was punishable" (Your Fat Friend, 2019). Using Scottish and French participants to determine a white male body ideal, Quetelet's Body Mass Index (BMI) will be used as to surveil and justify the systematic criminalization of communities that are not white and male.