Report to the Chicago Woman’s Club, The Chicago Association of Collegiate Alumnae and the Woman’s City Club

Contributors: Sophonisba P. Breckinridge and Edith Abbott, directors of the Department of Social Investigation, the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy, and Anne S. Davis, special investigator for the Chicago Woman’s Club, the Chicago Association of Collegiate Alumnae, and the Woman’s City Club

A survey by the Department of Surveys and Exhibits, Russell Sage Foundation, examining the correctional system of Springfield, Illinois, including adult offenders, juvenile delinquents, and the organization of the police department.

ZENAS L. POTTER, Department of Surveys and Exhibits, Russell Sage Foundation

A paper presented at the fifty-first congress of the American Prison Association in 1921, surveying the conditions of 30 of the 52 county jails in Florida at the time.

BERT C. RILEY was director of the General Extension Division of the University of Florida.

Reprinted from the Independent of August 20, 1908, this paper, written by the originator of the whole juvenile court system of the United States, calls for the establishment of playgrounds and juvenile courts around the country in order to combat the increase in crime among youth at the time.

BEN B. LINDSEY presided over the Juvenile Court of Denver, Col.

An address delivered before the Association at the National Recreation Congress in 1908 that points out how fundamental recreation, as well as the public spaces that provide it, can be.

CHARLES EVANS HUGHES was Governor of New York and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.