Best Practices in Community Surveys for Criminal Legal System Reform. .

By Susan Nembhard and Evelyn F. McCoy

The Catalyst Grant Program is a collaboration between the Urban Institute and the Microsoft Justice Reform Initiative to help nonprofit organizations use data and technology to advance racial equity in the criminal legal system. This guide is for community groups interested in launching a community survey in order to understand perspectives on the criminal legal system. It discusses how to design a survey, write survey questions, administer the survey, and share findings. This is one of a series of guides for community groups that draws on the experiences of Catalyst grantees and Urban researchers

Washington, DC: Urban Institute, 2023. 5p.