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The Adler School has launched a new online master’s program in criminology, specifically focused on the intersection of criminology, psychology, and social justice.

The Master of Arts in Criminology online program, enrolling students to begin classes in Fall 2012, will train mental health practitioners to address challenges facing the contemporary criminal justice system—including issues involving mental illness, terrorism, gangs, racial disparity, and advances in technology.

James Whitmer, J.D., has joined the Adler School faculty as director for the program. Whitmer brings 26 years of experience as a former special agent with the Chicago field office of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), serving as an undercover agent criminal profiling coordinator, general police instructor, foreign police instructor and case agent for major investigations.

An attorney specializing in immigration, general business, traffic, school and criminal law, Whitmer also is the author of “Tattooed Man,” a 2009 novel about a retired FBI agent whose efforts to track down a serial murderer lead him to an international coup plot in the former U.S.S.R. Whitmer earned his law degree from Chicago Kent College of Law at Illinois Institute of Technology, and his M.S. in organic chemistry from the University of Notre Dame.

Click here to learn more about the Master of Arts in Criminology.

With the addition of the criminology degree program, the Adler School Chicago campus now offers 11 master of arts programs, as well as a Doctor of Psychology in Clinical Psychology program with two new tracks introduced this fall in child and adolescent psychology and in military clinical psychology—the nation’s first such track. At its Vancouver campus, the Adler School offers three master of arts programs, in community psychology, counseling psychology and organizational psychology.

About the Adler School of Professional Psychology

The Adler School of Professional Psychology has provided quality education through a Scholar/Practitioner model for more than 50 years. The School’s mission is to train socially responsible graduates who continue the visionary work of Alfred Adler throughout the world. The Adler School offers 13 graduate-level programs enrolling more than 1,000 students at its campuses in Chicago and Vancouver, British Columbia, and through Adler Online.

Contact:
Kim McCullough
Director of Communications
Adler School of Professional Psychology
(312) 662-4124 or via email.