This explanation evaluates crime on the basis of geographical factors like climate, temperature, humidity, etc. It is supported by scholars like Montesquieu, Quetelet, Dexter, Kropotokin, Champneuf, and many others. Montesquieu (Spirit of Laws, 1748) laid down the law that criminality increases in proportion as one approaches the equator, and drunkenness increases in proportion as one approaches the poles.