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A Study of Juvenile Access to Council
Co-Principal Investigators: Richard J. Schmitz. and Pinky S. Wassenberg.

In 1996, the Center for Legal Studies (now the Institute for Legal and Policy Studies) was awarded a grant from the Illinois Juvenile Justice Commission to undertake an examination of the extent to which juveniles in Illinois have timely access to adequate legal representation in delinquency proceedings. Statewide surveys and case studies were taken in order to provide a portrait of the representation of juveniles in Illinois courts.