Chicago Area Project

Chicago Area Project
Formation1934 (1934)
FounderClifford Shaw
HeadquartersChicago, Illinois
Websitewww.chicagoareaproject.org

Chicago Area Project (CAP) is an American juvenile delinquency prevention association based in Chicago, Illinois. The project was founded by University of Chicago criminologist Clifford Shaw in 1934 and was a pioneering community-based delinquency prevention program.

The project started to fight delinquency at "Russell Square" neighborhood of South Chicago during the 1930s and early 1940s.

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