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Youth Crime and Community Safety Perceptions Survey

Captures how residents perceive youth crime trends, its causes, and the effectiveness of local responses like policing, mentorship, and diversion programs. Built for city agencies, community coalitions, and researchers, with an AI follow-up interview that unpacks the reasoning and lived experience behind residents' top-priority intervention and their stance on youth diversion programs.

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12 questions · ~7 min
Q01
Message

Thanks for taking a few minutes to share your views on youth crime and safety in your community. Your honest perspective helps local leaders decide where to focus resources. This should take about 6-8 minutes.

Q02
Multiple ChoiceRequired

Over the last 12 months, how do you think youth crime (ages roughly 10-17) has changed in your neighborhood?

  • Decreased a lot
  • Decreased somewhat
  • Stayed about the same
  • Increased somewhat
  • Increased a lot
  • Not sure
Q03
Opinion ScaleRequired

How concerned are you about youth crime affecting safety where you live?

Scale: 1 – 5
Min:Not at all concernedMax:Extremely concerned
Q04
Multiple Choice

In the last 12 months, which of the following have you personally experienced? Select all that apply.

  • Witnessed vandalism or property damage by youth
  • Witnessed a physical altercation or fight
  • Was the victim of theft or property crime by a young person
  • Had a family member involved with the youth justice system
  • Attended a community meeting about youth safety
Q05
MatrixRequired

How much of a cause do you think each of the following is behind youth crime in your community?

7 rows × 4 columns
  • Lack of parental supervision or support
  • Limited after-school or recreational programs
  • Poverty or economic hardship
  • Gang involvement or peer pressure
  • Social media influence
  • +2 more
Columns: Not a cause · Minor cause · Moderate cause · Major cause
Q06
Best–Worst Trade-off (MaxDiff)Required

Which of these approaches to reducing youth crime do you think would be most and least effective in your community?

  • More after-school and recreational programs
  • Increased police patrols in neighborhoods
  • Mentorship and role-model programs
  • Restorative justice or diversion programs
  • Job training and employment programs for youth
  • Accessible mental health and counseling services
  • Parenting support and family services
  • Stricter sentencing and enforcement
Pick best & worst per setBest:Most effectiveWorst:Least effective
Q07
Opinion ScaleRequired

How much do you trust local police and the justice system to handle youth crime fairly and effectively?

Scale: 0 – 10
Min:No trust at allMax:Complete trust
Q08
Rating Scale

How much do you support diverting first-time, non-violent young offenders into community-based programs instead of formal criminal charges?

Range: 1 – 5
Min:Strongly opposeMax:Strongly support
Q09
AI Interview

Explore the reasoning behind this respondent's top-rated intervention from the prioritization exercise and their view on diversion programs for young offenders — ask what a real-world example of that approach working (or failing) would look like to them. If they reported personally witnessing or being affected by an incident, have them walk through what happened and what response, if any, followed. If they expressed low trust in police or the justice system, probe what specifically drove that view.

Q10
Multiple Choice

What is your age range? (optional)

  • Under 18
  • 18-24
  • 25-34
  • 35-44
  • 45-54
  • 55-64
  • 65 or older
  • Prefer not to say
Q11
Multiple Choice

Which best describes your connection to this community? (optional)

  • Resident
  • Parent or guardian of a young person
  • Teacher or school staff
  • Local business owner
  • Local official or service provider
  • Other
  • Prefer not to say
Q12
Message

Thank you for sharing your perspective. Your responses will be combined with others to help guide local priorities and funding for youth safety programs.

What’s included

  • AI follow-ups

    Adaptive probes on open-ended answers that pull out detail a static form would miss.

  • Attention checks

    Built-in safeguards against rushed answers and low-quality respondents.

  • AI-drafted copy

    Wording, ordering, and branching written by the AI — tuned to your research goal.

  • Auto report

    Themes, quotes, and a plain-English summary write themselves once responses come in.

How it compares

We reviewed the closest templates from other survey tools. Here’s what they do well — and where this template goes further.

Why this template

  • Includes an AI follow-up interview that adaptively unpacks the reasoning behind each resident's top-priority intervention and their stance on diversion programs, going beyond static rating data
  • Combines quantitative measures (opinion scales on concern and trust, a matrix on perceived causes, a MaxDiff on intervention preference, a rating on diversion support) with qualitative depth in one flow
  • Uses transparent, reviewable AI prompts so city agencies and coalitions can see exactly what was asked and why, supporting public accountability
  • Auto-generates a report synthesizing closed-ended trends and interview themes, reducing manual analysis work for community coalitions and researchers

QuestionPro

Youth Crime Survey Questions + Sample Questionnaire Template

This is a directly comparable pre-built questionnaire covering youth crime perceptions, similar in topic scope to ours. It relies on standard closed-ended question types (multiple choice, scales) without any adaptive interview component. The page reads as a ready-to-field template rather than a guide, so it is a genuine like-for-like comparison.

What it does well

  • Purpose-built template specifically for youth crime perception research
  • Backed by an established, mature survey platform with broad question-type support
  • Likely easy to deploy quickly given QuestionPro's large template library

Where it falls short

  • No adaptive AI follow-up questioning to probe reasoning behind top-choice interventions or diversion program stances
  • No option for voice-based AI interviews to capture lived experience in respondents' own words
  • No published transparent prompt methodology or automated per-response quality scoring

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