Chicago Law Enforcement Study Group records

  • Creator Names Chicago Law Enforcement Study Group.
  • Title Chicago Law Enforcement Study Group records [manuscript], 1970-1985.
  • Physical description 26.5 linear ft. (22 boxes)
  • Collection summary
    • Office files of the Chicago Law Enforcement Study Group, an organization which conducted research on criminal law and the court system in the 1970s and 1980s. Collection includes correspondence, organizational fundraising files, clippings, publications, reports, domestic violence project files, and the data for the Minors in Need Study (MINS) of the late 1970s.
    • Box 1: Unbound manuscripts of reports relating to criminal justice and juvenile justice in Cook County, Illinois 1970s. Box 2: Information on foundations that supported the organization. Box 3: Drafts of LESG reports, clippings, and correspondence. Box 4: Domestic Violence Act and Battered Spouse Study, 1981 (draft and publication); Victim summary sheets coded and corresponding to a survey; Illinois Coalition Against Domestic Violence intake form; the Battery Spouse Proposal drafts; A LESG published report entitled " All they can do...police response to battered women's complaints" by David Reed, Sonia Fischer, Glenda Kauffman Kantor, Kevin Karales, 1983. Box 5: Homeless survey project files: coding sheets and street people survey with coding key. Box 6: Financial statements, 1980-1984; master press kit with notes and press releases; correspondence with The National Defender Institute; Annual reports for various nonprofits in the Chicagoland area 1970s-1980s. Box 7: Correspondence with various charities and foundations 1980s. Box 8: Correspondence, clippings, invoices, progress reports, contracts, annual reports, Illinois Academy of Criminology treasurer's report, 1986, agendas, meeting minutes, and fundraising documents. Box 9: Correspondence relating to police killings; clippings; publications.
    • Box 10: Published version of street survey of homeless in Chicago, 1983; 1978 legislation drafts; graphic layouts for publications; proofs of graphic design for organization stationary; proofs for annual reports; master copy of Split Second publication; financial report for 1979; draft of long term plan from spring 1984; mailing labels. Box 11: financial records; fundraising and donation files. Box 12: Payroll 1981; timesheets 1980s. Box 13: Personal mail, clippings, brochures from non-profits. Box 14: Files from domestic violence project. Box 15: MINS (Minors In Need Study) project: Stage II worksheets. Box 16: MINS project: stages I & II data and worksheets and background documents. Box 17: MINS project notes and two publications: Minors In Need: A study of status offenders at the juvenile court of Cook County, 1979, Janice Linn; Promises, Promises...Does the Juvenile Court deliver for status offenders? - the record in Cook County, Illinois, 1981, David Reed. Box 18: MINS report worksheets. Box 19: Police Shot: 1974-1977; reports on killings in Chicago; officers injured or killed; newspaper clippings; photocopies of card files with names. Box 20: Computer generated and printed reports. Box 21: Publication: Split Second Decisions: Shootings of and By Chicago Police, William A. Geller, 1981; forms for injuries or killings by CPD officers, includes name, address, wounds, weapon used; notecards listing injuries, killings, etc. Box 22: Homeless survey response questionnaires 1983.
  • Acquisition information Gift of the Chicago Law Enforcement Study Group in the 1980s (M1983.0008; M1985.0002; 2010.0051).
  • Names
    • Chicago Law Enforcement Study Group Archives.
    • Chicago (Ill.). Police Department.
    • National Defender Institute (U.S.)
    • Geller, William A.
    • Linn, Janice.
    • Reed, David E., 1943-
    • National Defender Institute (U.S.)
  • Subjects
    • Abused wives Illinois Cook County 20th century.
    • Crime Illinois Chicago 20th century.
    • Crime Illinois Cook County 20th century.
    • Criminal justice, Administration of Illinois Chicago 20th century.
    • Criminal justice, Administration of Illinois Cook County 20th century.
    • Family violence Illinois Cook County 20th century.
    • Homeless persons Illinois Cook County 20th century.
    • Juvenile courts Illinois Cook County 20th century.
    • Juvenile delinquency Illinois Cook County 20th century.
    • Juvenile delinquents Illinois Cook County 20th century.
    • Juvenile justice, Administration of Illinois Chicago 20th century.
    • Juvenile justice, Administration of Illinois Cook County 20th century.
    • Legal assistance to abused wives Illinois Cook County 20th century.
    • Police Illinois Chicago 20th century.
  • Geographic coverage Chicago (Ill.) Social conditions 20th century.
  • Genre
    • Correspondence. aat
    • Clippings. aat
    • Financial records. aat
    • Reports. aat
  • Geographic name United States Illinois Cook County Chicago.