Published Monday 27 April 2020 The coronavirus crisis and subsequent national lockdown is creating multiple challenges for the UK justice sector. It is also ...

The criminal justice system’s response to COVID-19 and its long term impact Published 21 April 2020 Crest is undertaking new research to understand how COVID...

Published 21 April 2020 Crest is undertaking new research to understand how COVID-19 is impacting the criminal justice system. We want to understand what lon...

“The marketplace is more volatile and violent than it has ever been” Published 26 February 2020 England and Wales is currently experiencing a rise in recorde...

Published 22 July 2019 “Justice delayed is justice denied”. So opened the Coalition Government's "Swift and Sure" White paper in 2012, drawing on a principle...

In partnership with the Hadley Trust Published 28 June 2019 Over the last 15 years there has been a growing emphasis on swiftness and certainty in the crimin...

Published 8 November 2018 Are the police doing what we, as a society, need and want them to do? The pressures and demands facing modern policing are changing...

Published 26 April 2018 The bulletins and news headlines over the next 24 hours have already been written, the narrative set: knife crime is continuing to ri...

Published 1 January 2018 "Not the kind of shift we were expecting: 3 hospital guards, safeguarding an elderly lady, safeguarding a vulnerable child, a high r...