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Institute for Juvenile Research (Ill.). Institute for Juvenile Research (Illinois) records, ca. 1930-1980.

Title: Institute for Juvenile Research (Illinois) records, ca. 1930-1980.

Research files, correspondence, intake cards, field diaries, transcripts and recordings of interviews, case files, reports, staff papers, published research, surveys, working papers, and other materials of the Institute for Juvenile Research (IJR). The collection also includes a clinical assessment of a segregated urban fourth grade (1960s), interviews on youth culture (9170s), and various theses in alphabetical order by author (1920s-1950s, 1970). The collection includes life histories compiled by the IJR, primarily 1929-1933 (although they date from 1921-1940s), by interviewing youths and young adults, most of whom were confined in Illinois detention facilities. Most were white, male, first-generation Americans. Interviews emphasize their childhoods and the development of their criminal activities. At least one interviewee was African American and two were women. Other topics often discussed include prison life; families, homes, and ethnicity; youth gangs; and sexual behavior and attitudes. There is some description of Chicago during the 1910s and 1920s.

ArchivalResource: 119 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/713342170 View

Chicago Area Project. Chicago Area Project records, 1910-1998.

Title: Chicago Area Project records, 1910-1998.

Correspondence, minutes, reports, clippings, newsletters, financial records, and research data of the Chicago Area Project, a community oriented program established in the 1930s for delinquency prevention and research, administered by Clifford R. Shaw and Henry D. McKay; plus related files of the Institute for Juvenile Research; and files of the Illinois Youth Commission, particularly files of Anthony M. Sorrentino. Topics include treatment and prevention of juvenile delinquency through inner city neighborhood programs, primarily on the Near North Side, South Side, and West Side of Chicago (Ill.) and including ethnic groups predominant in those neighborhoods. Other topics include the sociology of urban youth in the United States and the effectiveness of programs for rehabilitation of criminals. Contains papers of sociologists Clifford R. Shaw and Henry D. McKay; materials from community organizations, including the Mexican Civic Committee, the Russell Square Community Committee, and the West Side Community Committee; and Dennis Haffron's study of the Chicago Area Project.

ArchivalResource: 15 sound cassettes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/711880564 View

Illinois Academy of Criminology. Correspondence with Johan Thorsten Sellin, 1957-1958.

Title: Correspondence with Johan Thorsten Sellin, 1957-1958.

Items relate to Sellin's appearance at the academy's 1958 annual institute. Correspondents include academy president Henry McKay and program committee chairman S. Kirson Weinberg.

ArchivalResource: 8 items (12 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/238234988 View