Shaw, IJR was responsible for a series of remarkable studies on juvenile delinquency including Delinquency Areas Research conducted by the Illinois Institute for Juvenile Research (IJR) in conjunction with CAP has had a profound effect on our understanding of juvenile delinquency and crime in general. Email: INTRODUCTIONĪnyone familiar with the delinquency literature has heard of the Chicago Area Project (CAP). Lombardo is Associate Professor at the Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice, Loyola University, Chicago. Keywords: The Chicago Area Project Clifford Shaw Illinois Institute for Juvenile Research The North Side Civic Committee The West Side Community Committee The Near Northwest Side Civic Committee The findings indicate that much of what we know about combating delinquency areas and the cultural transmission of delinquent values is based upon research conducted in Chicago’s Italian neighbourhoods, yet there is no mention of the Italian community’s efforts to fight juvenile delinquency in the scholarly literature, nor is there a recognition that the presence of adult criminality was a necessary element in Clifford Shaw’s original characterisation of social disorganisation theory. The data for this research comes from published sources, newspaper accounts, and the CAP archives located in the special collections libraries of the University of Illinois, Chicago and the Chicago History Museum. This article argues that the work of CAP prevented many young people from pursuing a life of organised adult crime and that research conducted in these communities has provided information crucial to our understanding of crime and delinquency including support for both social disorganisation and differential social organisation theory. Specifically, it studies the work of CAP in three of Chicago’s Italian immigrant communities: the Near North Side, the Near West Side, and the Near Northwest Side during the early 1900s. Original article SOCIOLOGY FIGHTS ORGANISED CRIME: THE STORY OF THE CHICAGO AREA PROJECT Robert Lombardo*Ībstract: This article studies the Chicago Area Project (CAP).
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