With the support of the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Michigan Justice Statistics Center conducted a survey of residents of Battle Creek, Michigan as a way of learning about the victimization experiences as well as the perceptions of residents about their neighborhoods and the police. The survey employed a randomly selected, address-based sample of Battle Creek residents. Multiple methods of survey administration were used resulting in a final sample of 1,167 completed surveys. In addition to greater understanding of resident's victimization experiences and perceptions, the survey included several embedded experiments testing several survey modalities as well as incentives for participation.
