Freda Adler Quotes

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

  Freda Adler

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  Tags in Women, Man, Law

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

  Freda Adler

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  Tags in Justification, Chivalry, Control, Courage

• 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

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

  Freda Adler

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  Tags in Breach, Women

• 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

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Controversy, Passionate, Controversies, Sterile, Alter

• 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

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  Tags in Contradiction, Conformity, Change, Heart, Creature

• Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.

  Freda Adler

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  Tags in Accused, Victim, Crime

• Major social movements 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

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  Tags in Landscape, Movements, Perceptions, Eventually, Social

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

  Freda Adler

  Topics in Politics, Power

  Tags in Ethics, Philosophy

Freda Adler (9)

Birth:	1934
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Criminologist, Professor, Writer

About

Freda Adler is an American criminologist and professor. She currently serving as Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University and a visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She was President of the American Society of Criminology in 1994-1995. A prolific writer, she has published in a variety of criminological areas, including female criminality, international issues in crime, piracy, drug abuse, and social control theories. She received a Bachelor of Arts in sociology, Master of Arts in criminology, and Ph.D.in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. She received a D.H.L. from the University of Scranton in 2011.

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