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The historical day files of the Dean Richard Myren contain correspondence, faculty meeting minutes, planning and summary documents and general administrative documents generated during the years 1963-1971. The planning and organization of the School of Criminal Justice is well documented through memos and letters to the individuals directly involved in the creation of the program. For this series, the original item list compiled by the creating agency is intact, and there is an item level list of the files.

Contains general items that pertain to the School of Criminal Justice. Includes general correspondence with faculty, program and course descriptions, draft proposals, grant proposals, press releases, faculty meeting minutes, general planning documents and Dean's Reports. The bulk of the materials falls within the years 1965-1984. The files of Dean Newman, 1977-1984, also contain correspondence relating to accreditation site visits he made to other institutions offering courses in Criminal Justice. Included in Newman's files is correspondence with famed criminologist Marvin E. Wolfgang (1961-1983) and the former Dean of the School of Criminal Justice and School President Vincent O'Leary (1976-1977). In a few cases Newman's files contain the correspondence of O'Leary and Richard Myren. In a number of cases Newman carried on professional correspondences with colleagues both before and after his term as Dean. See the Donald Newman Papers for that correspondence. The bulk of the material dates between 1968 and 1983.

The publications series contains publications written by members of the faculty under the imprint of the School of Criminal Justice, and studies published under the auspices of the School of Criminal Justice. For the School of Criminal Justice Alumni News (1975-1983), the School of Criminal Justice News and Notes (1967-1975), School of Criminal Justice Graduate Bulletin (1968-1970, 1978-1981) and the School of Criminal Justice Report (1984), see the University Archives Publication File.

The handbooks series contains the student handbooks for the School of Criminal Justice for the years listed above.

This series contains the correspondence and publications of the Center on Minorities and Criminal Justice. Also contained in this series is a small amount of correspondence relating to the Center's predecessor, the Training Program in Criminal Justice Education. Planning and Budgetary documents as well as publications produced by the Center comprise the vast majority of the documents of this unit of the School of Criminal Justice.