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.

in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania under the guidance of professor Thorsten Sellin publishing her Ph. Mueller who served as chief of the United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice section. Adler received a B.

She began her career in criminal justice as an evaluator of drug and alcohol treatment programs for federal and state governments. A. She has occasionally collaborated with her husband Gerhard O.