Scope and Contents

Papers relating to a research study carried out by John Spencer and Barbara Scott sponsored by the Research Department of the Social Planning Council, Toronto.

Consists of: Correspondence with the Social Planning Council of Toronto; handwritten notes by Spencer; blank questionaires; study proposals and findings.

Scope and Contents Papers relating to John Spencer's time at the University of Toronto and relating to his proposal for research into prostitution in Toronto. Consists of: Research proposal and plan; bibliography; handwritten notes of an interview with Rev M Flint; copy of the report of the Sub-Committee on Prostitution tothe Mayor's Committee on Narcotics and Prostitution; Observations concerningthe report of the Mayor's Sub-Committee on Prostitution by Charles Hendry, School of Social Work, University of...

Scope and Contents Papers form a file titled Anti-Social Gangs. Consists of: Handwritten notes by Spencer for a number of talks relating his work on the Bristol Social Project and the University Settlement Project in Toronto; Annotated copy of A Reporter at Large: The Cherubs are Rumbling from The New Yorker; handwritten and typed copies of "Working with Hard to Reach Youth", an address given by Spencer at the annual meeting of the Recreation Division of the Social Planning Council of Toronto, 1960; "Working...

Scope and Contents Papers relating to research carried out by students at the School of Social Work under Spencer's supervision.Consists of: Correspondence from the Department of Social Welfare attaching data from a study on social allowance applicants; notes and papers relating to a consultative conference on the chronic petty offender including Spencer's paper "The Homeless Transient"; report of the committee on homeless and transient men by committee chairman John Spencer; School of Social work...