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Local Level Victimization Survey, Battle Creek, Michigan, 2016-2017 (ICPSR 39077)
Released/updated on: 2025-09-30
Geographic coverage: United States, Battle Creek, Michigan
Time period: 2016-01-01--2017-01-01
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.
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Local Level Victimization Survey, Detroit, Michigan, 2015-2016 (ICPSR 39078)
Released/updated on: 2025-09-30
Geographic coverage: Detroit, United States, Michigan
Time period: 2015-01-01--2016-01-01
With the support of the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Michigan Justice Statistics Center housed within Michigan State University's School of Criminal Justice, conducted a survey of residents of Detroit, Michigan. This was one of three editions of the Local Level Victimization Survey (LLVS), with the others being conducted in Battle Creek, Michigan, and Saginaw, Michigan. The survey's purpose was to learn about resident's victimization experiences, along with perceptions of their neighborhoods and the police. The survey also tested response rates using various modes of data collection, including whether or not responses would be increased using web-based surveys. Variables include measures of community satisfaction, perceived risk, procedural justice, fear of victimization, police legitimacy, collective efficacy, experience of fear, and incidents of violent or property crime victimization. Demographic variables include age, race, gender, and education.
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Local Level Victimization Survey, Saginaw, Michigan, 2014-2015 (ICPSR 39079)
Released/updated on: 2025-09-30
Geographic coverage: United States, Saginaw, Michigan
Time period: 2014-01-01--2016-01-01
With the support of the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Michigan Justice Statistics Center housed within Michigan State University's School of Criminal Justice, conducted a survey of residents of Saginaw, Michigan. This was one of three editions of the Local Level Victimization Survey (LLVS), with the others being conducted in Battle Creek, Michigan, and Detroit, Michigan. The survey's purpose was to learn about resident's victimization experiences, along with perceptions of their neighborhoods and the police. The survey also tested response rates using various modes of data collection, including whether or not responses would be increased using web-based surveys. Variables include measures of community satisfaction, perceived risk, procedural justice, fear of victimization, police legitimacy, collective efficacy, experience of fear, and incidents of violent or property crime victimization. Demographic variables include age, race, gender, and education.
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Measuring Police-Community Interaction Variables in Indianapolis, 1999-2000 (ICPSR 4355)
Released/updated on: 2007-06-28
Geographic coverage: Indiana, United States, Indianapolis
Time period: 2000-08-28--2000-10-10, 1999-07-01--2000-06-01, 1999-07-01--2000-06-01
This study, funded under the Measuring What Matters Program, was conducted to identify general neighborhood strengthening, or community building, processes and police contributions to them. The purpose of the study, also known as the Police-Community Interaction Project (PCIP), was to conceive, identify, or define recognizable patterns of interaction and to find ways to treat these as quantities that vary in amount and can be shown to fluctuate over time or across places. To that end, researchers conducted surveys of block clubs, neighborhood associations, and umbrella groups to gauge the issues that were important to them, steps they were taking to address these issues, and the ways in which they interacted with the police. Researchers also attended the meetings and events held by the Westside Cooperative Organization (WESCO), an umbrella group, and gathered coded data about the meetings, events and issues discussed. Specific variables in the study include demographic variables about the blocks, neighborhoods, and districts represented by the organizations, descriptive variables on the organizations themselves, variables describing issues of importance to the organizations and steps those organizations were taking to address the issues, variables to describe the interaction between the organizations and police, and variables describing police involvement in community activities.
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Neighborhood Violence in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1996-2007 (ICPSR 28441)
Released/updated on: 2012-09-24
Geographic coverage: United States, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
Time period: 1996-01-01--2007-01-01
This study assessed the implementation and impact of the One Vision One Life (OVOL) violence-prevention strategy in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 2003, the rise in violence in Pittsburgh prompted community leaders to form the Allegheny County Violence Prevention Imitative, which became the OVOL program. The OVOL program sought to prevent violence using a problem-solving, data-driven model to inform how community organizations and outreach teams respond to homicide incidents. The research team examined the impact of the OVOL program on violence using a quasi-experimental design to compare violence trends in the program's target areas before and after implementation to (1) trends in Pittsburgh neighborhoods where One Vision was not implemented, and (2) trends in specific nontarget neighborhoods whose violence and neighborhood dynamics One Vision staff contended were most similar to those of target neighborhoods. The Pittsburgh Bureau of Police provided the violent-crime data, which the research team aggregated into monthly counts. The Pittsburgh Department of City Planning provided neighborhood characteristics data, which were extracted from the 2000 Census. Monthly data were collected on 90 neighborhoods in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from 1996 to 2007, resulting in 12,960 neighborhood-by-month observations.
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Problem Solving Approaches to Issues of Inmate Reentry in Indianapolis, Indiana, 2000-2003 (ICPSR 30281)
Released/updated on: 2012-10-08
Geographic coverage: Indiana, United States, Indianapolis
Time period: 2000-01-01--2003-01-01
This study involved an evaluation of the reentry component of the Indianapolis Violence Reduction Partnership (IVRP). The IVRP included a problem solving approach to the issue of inmate reentry. On the basis of a problem analysis, the IVRP officials decided to implement a pilot project that involved having recently released inmates attend a neighborhood-based group meeting convened by criminal justice officials and including community representatives and service providers. The meetings were based on the notion of combining deterrence and social support (linkage to services). The pilot project was evaluated using a quasi-experimental design. The treatment group consisted of 82 former inmates who attended one of five meetings. The comparison group consisted of 103 former inmates released at the same time period as the treatment group but in a different neighborhood. Reentry lever-pulling meeting participants and comparison group members were tracked for a period of up to 24 months to determine whether they had been re-arrested during the study period.