These papers concern the establishment of the Southern Police Institute and the National Crime Prevention Institute. The materials include reports, budgets, correspondence, and publications. A second set of materials, received in 2008, consist of teaching aids for his classes, manuals for police instruction, brochures for the Southern Police Institute (SPI), and other records.
The collection includes student papers, manuscripts, correspondence, reviewers' notes, field and laboratory notes, reports, material relating to the Atomic Energy Commission at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and other university material. There are also oral history interviews with Krumholz in the Oral History Center collection.
These papers contain Edward Sutt's teaching material, and include lecture notes, class books, and examinations.