Professor Lorraine Mazerolle was recently awarded the Freda Adler Distinguished International Scholar Award at the American Society of Criminology annual meeting in San Francisco. 

THE AWARD:

According to DIC by-laws, the awardee is a non-United States scholar who has made a significant contribution to fostering research and exchange of information concerning criminology in an international perspective or a scholar whose work has been of particular interest to criminologists in the United States and has been a mentor/advocate for students studying international criminology.

WHO IS FREDA ADLER?

Freda Adler has contributed to international criminology in many ways. She was involved in the development of our Division and has been an active member since its inception. She has been a proponent for international criminology, advocating an international perspective in all research. Additionally, she has been an indispensable mentor for interested students. While many of her students recognize her mentorship during her tenure at Rutgers, she has touched the hearts and careers of many other students.

Freda's primary work for the last four decades has focused on internationalizing and globalizing the study of criminology. Her efforts began in 1976 when she wrote the report for the Women's Year on the role of women in the United Nations. Her efforts continued through more than 130 books and papers, including Nations not obsessed with Crime (1983) while working as a consultant to the United Nations and her well-known co-authored Criminology and Criminal Justice System text, now in its 6th edition.

In 1994/5, Freda was the ASC President, delivering her Presidential Speech at the 47th annual meeting titled "Crime and Justice: National and International." This address was one of ASC's first movements toward internationalizing the profession (published in Criminology (Volume 34, Number 1, 1996).