Rita J. Simon

Rita James Simon (November 26, 1931 – July 25, 2013) She obtained a BA at the University of Wisconsin in 1952, and after a few years of graduate study at Cornell University, obtained a PhD from the University of Chicago in 1957.

Career Simon was a research associate at University of Chicago Law School (1958-1961) and Columbia School of Social Work (1961-1963), as well as an assistant professor of sociology at UC (1959-1961). to study sociology of law. She was a 1971 Ford Foundation Fellow. Published works Authored books The Jury and the Defense of Insanity (1967) Payment for Pain and Suffering (1972, with Jeffrey O'Connell) American Public Opinion, 1937-1970 (1974) Women and Crime (1975) Transracial Adoption (1977, with Howard Altstein) Continuity and Change: A Study in Two Ethnic Communities in Israel (1978) The Female Defendant in Washington, DC, 1974 and 1975 (1979, with Navin Sharma) The American Jury (1980) Transracial Adoption: A Followup (1981) Public Opinion and the Immigrant: Print Media Coverage, 1880-1980 (1985) Transracial Adoptees and Their Families: A Study of Identity and Commitment (1987, with Howard Altstein) The Insanity Defense: A Critical Assessment of Law and Policy in the Post-Hinckley Era (1988, with David E. Aaronson) Prison Conditions in Israel (1990) The Crimes Women Commit, the Punishments They Receive (1991, with Jean Landis) Women's Movements in America: Their Successes, Disappointments, and Aspirations (1991, with Gloria Danziger) Adoption, Race, and Identity: From Infancy through Adolescence (1992, with Howard Altstein) Rabbis, Lawyers, Immigrants, Thieves: Exploring Women's Roles (1993) The Ambivalent Welcome: Print Media, Public Opinion, and Immigration (1993, with Susan H. Alexander) The Case for Transracial Adoption (1994, with Howard Altstein and Marygold S. Melli) In the Golden Land: A Century of Russian and Soviet Jewish Immigration in America (1997) Abortion: Statutes, Policies, and Public Attitudes the World Over (1998) The Use of Social Science Data in Supreme Court Decisions (1998, with Rosemary J. Erickson) Euthanasia and the Right to Die: A Comparative View (1999, with Jennifer M. Scherer) Adoption across Borders: Serving the Children in Transracial and Intercountry Adoptions (2000, with Howard Altstein) In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories (2000, with Rhonda M. Roorda) Renaissance Women in Science (2000, with Louise Q. van der Does)

Edited books As We Saw the Thirties (1967) Readings in the Sociology of Law (1968) The Jury System (1975) Research in Law and Sociology (1978) The Criminology of Deviant Women (1979, with Freda Adler) Research in Law, Deviance and Social Control (1981, with Steven Spitzer) New Lives: The Adjustment of Soviet Jewish Immigrants in the United States and Israel (1985) International Migration: The Female Experience (1986, with Caroline Brettell) Intercountry Adoption: A Multinational Perspective (1991, with Howard Altstein) Editors as Gatekeepers: Getting Published in the Social Sciences (1994, with James Fyfe) Neither Victim nor Enemy: Women's Freedom Network Looks at Gender in America (1995) From Data to Public Policy: Affirmative Action, Sexual Harrassment , Domestic Violence, and Social Welfare (1996) A Look Backward and Forward at American Professional Women and Their Families (2000) Immigrant Women (2000) A Comparative Perspective on Major Social Problems (2001) Women in the Military (2001)