Professor Freda Adler received her BA in sociology, her MA in criminology, and her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. She is Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University. Dr. Adler began her career in criminal justice as an evaluator of drug and alcohol treatment programs for federal and state governments. For several decades she has taught subjects such as criminal justice, criminology, comparative criminal justice systems, statistics, and research methods. She has served as criminal justice advisor to the United Nations, as well as to federal, state, and foreign governments. Dr. Adler's published works include 13 books as author or coauthor, 9 books as editor of coeditor, and over 100 journal articles. She has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Criminal Justice, Criminology, and the Journal of Research on Crime and Delinquency. Dr. Adler serves as editorial consultant to the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology and is founding coeditor of The Advances in Criminological Theory. She is an elected Fellow of the American Society of Criminology and the Max-Planck Institute of Foreign and International Law and Criminology and is the recipient of the Beccaria Medal in Gold of the Deutche Kriminologische Gesellschaft (representing Germany, Luxemburg and Switzerland), the Chi Omega Sociology Award, the American Society of Criminology International Division Award, and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Founder's Award.
