Background
Adler, Herman Morris was born on October 10, 1876 in New York, New York, United States. Son of Isaac and Frieda (Grumbacher) Adler.
Adler, Herman Morris was born on October 10, 1876 in New York, New York, United States. Son of Isaac and Frieda (Grumbacher) Adler.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1897. Master of Arts, Doctor of Medicine Columbia, 1901.
Porter. Assistant professor psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, 1912-1917. Was chief of staff, Boston Psychopathic Hospital. Removed to Chicago, 1916, to make a study of facilities in Cook County for detection and care of mental diseases and mental deficiency, under auspices of Rockefeller Foundation and National Committee Mental Hygiene.
Appointed by Judge Scully, 1917, to make survey of Cook County’s psychopathic cases and to act as medical adviser to county board.
Appointed state criminologist of Illinois by Governor Lowden, June 30, 1917. Director Juvenile Psychopathic Institute, February 10, since 1917.
Major Medical corpus, United States army, July 1918-March 1919. Special duty in disciplinary psychiatry at military prisons.
Professor criminology and head of department of social hygiene, medical jurisprudence and criminology, Medical College University of Illinois, 1919-1928.
Professor psychiatry, University of California, since 1930. Also advisor California Department of Institutions Director Behavior Research Fund, since 1926. Member Harvard Survey of Crime and Law.
Consultant to National Commision on Law Observance and Enforcement.
Author of section on Medical Science and Criminal Justice, in Criminal Justice Survey of the Cleveland Foundation, 1921. Home: Berkeley, California Deceased.
Member Harvard Survey of Crime and Law.
Married Frances Porter, March 17, 1917.