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1934

Freda Adler (born 1934) is an American criminologist, educator and Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University, who published in a variety of criminological areas, including female criminality, international issues in crime, piracy, drug abuse, and social control theories.

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal (1975, pg. 155)

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Characteristically, major social movements are spawned in obscurity at the periphery of public awareness, seem to burst suddenly and dramatically into public view, and eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.

Freda Adler
— P. 5. (Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal (1975))

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The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.

Freda Adler
— P. 31. (Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal (1975))

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The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.

Freda Adler
— P. 55. (Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal (1975))

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Freda Adler
— P. 91. (Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal (1975))

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That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.

Freda Adler
— P. 171. (Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal (1975))

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Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.

Freda Adler
— P. 203. (Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal (1975))

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The controversy between rule of law and rule of men was never relevant to women because, along with juveniles, imbeciles, and other classes of legal nonpersons, they had no access to law except through men.

Freda Adler
— P. 203. (Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal (1975))

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The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their own minds.

Freda Adler
— P. 250. (Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal (1975))

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Perhaps it is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused and, in reality, it is she who must prove her good reputation, her mental soundness, and her impeccable propriety.

Freda Adler
— Freda Adler, Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal (1975), p. 215.

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Perhaps it is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused and, in reality, it is she who must prove her good reputation, her mental soundness, and her impeccable propriety.

Freda Adler
— P. 215. (Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal (1975))

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