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Chicago Area Project (CAP) is an American juvenile delinquency prevention association based in Chicago, Illinois. The association has been acting since early 20th century. The project was founded by University of Chicago criminologist Clifford Shaw. As of 2009, its current executive director is David E. Whittaker.
Clifford Robe Shaw (1895 – 1957) was an American sociologist and criminologist. He was a major figure in the Chicago School of sociology during the 1930s and 1940s, and is considered to be one of the most influential figures in American criminology. [1]
John Wayne Gacy. In 1986, Richard Kling was appointed to represent John Wayne Gacy for a post conviction petition. Gacy was an American serial killer and rapist, also known as the Killer Clown, who was convicted of the sexual assault and murder of a minimum of 33 teenage boys and young men in a series of killings committed between 1972 and 1978 in Chicago, Illinois. [14]
Henry Donald McKay (1899–1980) was an American sociologist and criminologist who, along with Clifford Shaw, helped to establish the University of Chicago's Sociology Department as the leading program of its kind in the United States. [1] He and Shaw were both considered members of the Chicago School of sociology.
The Chicago Crime Commission is an independent, non-partisan civic watchdog organization of business leaders dedicated to educating the public about the dangers of organized criminal activity, especially organized crime, street gangs and the tools of their trade: drugs, guns, public corruption, money laundering, identity theft and gambling, founded in 1919.
In contrast, Chicago police faced strong criticism for being unprepared in the aftermath of George Floyd's 2020 killing in Minneapolis, when civil unrest broke out nationwide.
The Chicago Area Project was a practical attempt by sociologists to apply their theories in a city laboratory. Subsequent research showed that the youth athletic leagues, recreation programs, and summer camp worked best along with urban planning and alternatives to incarceration as crime control policy.
Kleck has done numerous studies of the effects of guns on death and injury in crimes, [3] on suicides, [4] and gun accidents, [5] the impact of gun control laws on rates of violence, [6] [7] the frequency and effectiveness of defensive gun use by crime victims, [8] [9] patterns of gun ownership, [10] why people support gun control, [11] and "the myth of big-time gun trafficking."