Survey questions focus on crime victimization experiences, perceptions of community survey and police.

Adults living in Detroit are eligible to participate.

Your citizenship status is not applicable.

You need to be invited to DeSCS by someone you know or by the DeSCS team.
If you are interested in participation, please fill out this form or contact us.

As a token of appreciation, we provide $25 for completing the survey. There are additional incentives depending on your recruitment of other participants and ancillary surveys. 

The incentive payment is processed through Chase Bank either as a direct deposit or a check. You don’t need a Chase account to receive the payment.

The survey is designed to last 20-30 minutes.

Without a unique number, we cannot verify your eligibility and cannot assist you when you experience issues accessing the survey.

You may wonder why we don’t just recruit anyone who is willing to participate from community organizations, establishments, or events. The reason why we ask you to invite other people is that this type of recruitment excludes those who are not associated with them. Our study attempts to test whether social networks help more inclusive recruitment, generating data that are more representative.

Hence, you’re inviting others is critical for the success of our study.

If you have any issues with the unique number, please contact us.

Your answers to survey questions will be prepared as a research data set and shared with other researchers through a data repository at the University of Michigan as we have done with our previous studies (e.g., https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR37635.v1).

Note that your personal information will be stored separately from the research data and will not be shared with anyone.

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You may take the Web survey using any device that accesses the Internet (e.g., smartphones, tablets, laptops, desktops, etc.). If you would rather answer questions on the phone, you may schedule an interview.