Records and papers of the Criminal Justice Awareness Project of the Center for the Study of Middle-Size Cities including correspondence, working appears, questionnaires, grant materials, publications and computer printouts concerning criminal justice in Illinois, urban geography, needs of local government officials in Illinois, the Illinois Criminal Justice System and related topics. This project was funded by the Illinois Law Enforcement Commission for 1976-1977 with the objectives of identifying officials involved with law enforcement and criminal justice decision-making, the ascertainment of the training of these individuals, the determination of their role in criminal justice planning, the funding of a series of regional workshops in criminal justice and the development of and field-test of a curriculum and information delivery system. The project ran January 1976 to June 1977.