"There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control."
"Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit."
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Source: Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal. Book by Freda Adler, 1975.
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