Society for the Prevention of Crime records, 1878-1973

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Series X: Subjects



Box 29 Acceptance of offenders by the armed forces, 1940-1942


Box 29 Adolescent girls, 1939-1947


Box 29 Adolescent treatment clinic, 1941-1948


Box 29 Alcoholism, 1938-1950


Box 29 Alien enemy material, 1941-1942


Box 29 Armed forces. See: Acceptance of offenders by the armed forces


Box 29 Armed services criminality, 1944-1946



Box 30 Albany Crime Conference, 1931-1938



Box 31 Behavior problems & children's institutions, 1946-1950


Box 31 Bail, 1941


Box 31 Bibliographies, 1944-1951


Box 31 Brownsville Boys Club, 1943-1949



Box 32 Capital punishment. See: Murderers & capital punishment Cartoons



Flat Box 598 Political cartoon: "Tapped Wires" by Winsor Zonic McCay, Depicts Kingsbury, Woods, and Mitchel. Signed by W.Z. McCay.



Flat Box 597 Cartoons



Box 32 Cases; A - R, 1896-1951



Box 33 Cases: S - Y & misc., 1932-1950



Box 34 Child adoption legislation, 1939-1951



Box 35 Child labor, 1942-1949


Box 35 Children. See: Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children


Box 35 Children. See; War & children


Box 35 Children's Court, 1938-1949


Box 35 Children's institutions. See: Behavior problems & children's Inst.


Box 35 Civil Service, 1941-1944


Box 35 Civil rights, 1949


Box 35 Civil rights. See also: Race


Box 35 Comic books. See: Motion pictures, magazines


Box 35 Correction & penal institutions (1), 1932-1945



Box 36 Correction & penal institutions (2), 1946-1950


Box 36 Court interpretations. See: Legislation & court interpretations


Box 36 Courts, 1941-1951


Box 36 Courts. See: Children's Court


Box 36 Courts. See: Youth Court


Box 36 Courts; Brooklyn County Clerk's Office - annual report (County Court), 1940



Box 37 Crime & delinquency, 1932-1951


Box 37 Crime & delinquency: other countries, 1933-1949


Box 37 Crime causation. See: Popular concepts of crime causation


Box 37 Crime statistics. See; Delinquency & crime statistics


Box 37 Criminology, 1934-1949


Box 37 Delinquency. See; Crime & delinquency


Box 37 Delinquency & crime statistics, 1939-1946



Box 38 Delinquency & crime statistics (1), 1947-1951



Box 39 Delinquency & crime statistics (2), 1947-1951



Box 40 Delinquency, unofficial (non-statistical), 1943


Box 40 Detention, 1939-1950



Box 41 Detention facilities (1), 1938-1946



Box 42 Detention facilities (2), 1947-1951


Box 42 Drugs, 1936-1939


Box 42 Education (1), 1938-1944



Box 43 Education (2), 1945-1950



Box 44 Egbert, George Drew Sermons, 1935-1936

[G.D. Egbert was President of the Society from 1933 to 1940 and Pastor of the First Congergational Church, Flushing, NY]


Box 44 Foster home care, 1946-1949


Box 44 Foundations, 1943


Box 44 Gambling (1), 1906-1934



Box 45 Gambling (2), 1935-1955


Box 45 Gang activities, 1943-1951



Box 46 Government, 1931-1939


Box 46 Guidance clinics, 1949



Box 47 Health, 1943-1949


Box 47 Housing, 1937-1950



Box 48 Legislation & court interpretations, 1941-1951



Box 49 Lexow Committee: Minutes, Vol. 2 & Vol. 1 -- -- "Investigations of the Police Department and other departments of the city of New York by a committee of the Senate; 1894; Vol. II; Frank Moss of Counsel for Committee" -- -- "Lexow Committee's original minutes; Vol. IV; 1894"



Box 50 Marriage and divorce, 1947-1950


Box 50 Mental deficiency, 1938-1950


Box 50 Miscellaneous, 1901-1950


Box 50 Motion pictures, magazines, radio, comics in relation to delinquency (includes many comic books), 1938-1948



Box 51 Motion pictures, magazines, radio, comics ... (2), 1947 & 1948



Box 52 Motion pictures, magazines, radio, comics (3) (includes the censorship trial of The Amboy Dukes by Irving Shulman), 1949-1950


Box 52 Murderers & capital punishment, 1939-1949


Box 52 Narcotics, 1938-1951


Box 52 New York City. Juvenile Aid Bureau. See: "Politics and children"


Box 52 New York State. See: Albany Crime Conference


Box 52 New York State. Legislature. Senate. Committee on the Police Department of the city of New York. See: Lexow Committee


Box 52 Pari-mutual legislation, 1938-1940


Box 52 Parole. See: Probation & parole


Box 52 Parolees. See: Problems of prisoners & parolees


Box 52 Penal institutions. See: Correction & penal institutions


Box 52 Planned parenthood, 1941-1946



Box 53 Police, 1945-1951


Box 53 Police. See also: Lexow Committee "Police and children" -a study of New York City's Juvenile Aid Bureau, 1949


Box 53 Popular concepts of crime causation, 1946-1949


Box 53 Population statistics, 1939-1948


Box 53 Post war planning, 1942-1951



Box 54 Preventive measures, 1942-1951



Box 55 Probation & parole, 1936-1951


Box 55 Problems of prisoners & parolees, 1942-1949



Box 56 Prostitution, 1923-1951



Box 57 Psychiatric cases & notes (1), 1928-1945



Box 58 Psychiatric cases & notes (2), 1946-1950



Box 59 Race discrimination amendment, 1944-1950


Box 59 Race prejudice (1), 1941-1947



Box 60 Race prejudice (2), 1948-1950


Box 60 Race prejudice. See also: Civil rights


Box 60 Rackets, 1933


Box 60 Radio, 1944-1948


Box 60 Radio. See also: Motion pictures, magazines, radio



Box 61 Recreation & nursery care, 1940-1949


Box 61 Religion, 1940-1949


Box 61 Sex education, 1943-1949


Box 61 Sex offenders (1), 1935-1946



Box 62 Sex offenders (2), 1947-1950


Box 62 Shulman, Irving The Amboy Dukes See: Motion pictures


Box 62 Social action, 1941-1950


Box 62 Social work (1), 1935-1947



Box 63 Social work (2), 1948-1949


Box 63 Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, 1900-1942


Box 63 Treatment programs, 1939-1951


Box 63 Venereal disease, 1939-1948



Box 64 Vocational education, 1935-1948


Box 64 War & children, 1942-1944


Box 64 War criminals, 1942-1949


Box 64 Welfare societies, 1937 & 1938


Box 64 Youth, 1940-1949



Box 65 Youth correction authority, 1940-1949


Box 65 Youth Court (1), 1919-1941



Box 66 Youth Court (2), 1942-1951