Society for the Prevention of Crime Records, 1878-1973.

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Society for the Prevention of Crime Records, 1878-1973.

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Papers of the Society, including correspondence among the officers and directors of the Society, memoranda, reports, legal papers, minutes, financial records, radio scripts, clippings, scrapbooks, comic books, and a subject file of pamphlets and clippings on all aspects of crime prevention. Also, an extensive history of the Society.

ca. 30,000 items (65 boxes, 8 oversize v. and folders)

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Albany Crime Commission (Albany, N.Y.)

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Columbia University. School of Law.

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Society for the Prevention of Crime (New York, N.Y.)

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The Society for the Prevention of Crime was founded in 1877 in New York City. It has worked, successively, for the promotion of temperance, for judicial and legislative reform, and for public and legal education. During its most active periods, the Society brought about the formation of of the Lexow Committee to investigate the New York City Police in 1894, contributed to the Albany Crime Commission during the 1930s, and broadcast popular radio programs on criminal behavior, 1946-1948. In 1948 t...