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1937 Y.B. 8 (1937)
The Chicago Area Project

handle is hein.journals/yrbok21 and id is 14 raw text is: The Chicago Area Project' ERNEST W. BURGESS, JOSEPH D. LOHMAN, CLIFFORD R. SHAW Institute for Juvenile Research, Chicago HE Chicago Area Project is a program which seeks to discover by actual demonstration and measure- ment a procedure for the treatment of delinquents and the prevention of delinquency in those neighborhoods of the city which have for more than thirty-five years produced a disproportionately large number of delinquent boys and girls in the Cook County Juvenile Court. The program is in operation in three such neighborhoods. Its primary feature is the emphasis which it places upon the participation of the residents of the neighborhood in plan- ning and operating the program. The Project seeks to determine to what extent constructive changes can be effected in the social environment of the neighborhood with consequent reduction in the volume of delinquency, by providing to the residents facilities and professional guidance for the development of their own program for the welfare of their children. In view of the fact that the distinctive emphasis in the Project is to achieve the fullest possible neighborhood participation, it is necessary to develop among the local residents a realization that the program is designed to satisfy certain of their own fundamental needs. Its pur- poses and mode of operation must be such as to appeal to the sentiments and capture the imagination of the resi- dents of the community. All of the activities in the pro- gram are carried on with a view to making the neighbor- 1. From an unpublished manuscript.

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