Freda Adler is criminologist and educator who was currently serving as Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University. She has acted as a consultant to the United Nations on criminal justice matters since 1975, holding various roles within United Nations organizations. Robert Merton was an educator at Columbia University, where he became professor. Merton was awarded the US National Medal of Science, for founding the sociology of science and for his pioneering contributions to the study of social life, especially the self-fulfilling prophecy and the unintended consequences of social action. Freda’s greatest contribution was to bring attention to feminist theory primarily through the publication of Sisters in crime: The rise of the new female criminal by doing this Adler 's contributions changed criminology by ushering in a new and (at the time) controversial way of viewing female deviants and offenders. …show more content…
She guessed rising crime rates for women resulted in the success of the women’s liberation movement. Merton has a couple of different theories, one of the famous ones is the Anormie Theory. Merton changed the concept of the original theory to refer to a situation in which there is an apparent lack of fit between the culture 's norms about what constitutes success in life and the culture 's norms about the appropriate ways to achieve those goals.
Adler´s theory and Merton´s theory are different because for one Adler´s theory focuses more on women and their thirst for crime more than Merton´s does.
Adler´s theory has similar thoughts that I would have towards the women doing crime topic. She goes into detail about why they went into crime (as a result of the successfulness of the women 's liberation movement) and everything she states seems to be on point on what I believe