Crest was commissioned by the Crown Prosecution Service to assess the organisation's engagement with victims

Without any further action, the court backlog is projected to rapidly increase and reach an unmanageable level by 2024.

As part of our research into the impact of Covid-19 on the justice system, Crest has developed a ‘stock and flow’ model.

Despite seventeen policy reforms in as many years, the CJS in England and Wales still routinely tolerates delays and uncertainty.

We consider the effects of the pandemic on the criminal justice system and explore how agencies might look to manage its impact on victims.

Crest is undertaking new research to understand how COVID-19 is impacting the criminal justice system.

Crest is undertaking new research to understand how COVID-19 is impacting the criminal justice system.

This is the second in a series of reports investigating the drivers of serious violence in England and Wales in recent years.

This report provides an overview of serious violence, examines the scale and nature of the problem.

“Justice delayed is justice denied”. So opened the Coalition Government's "Swift and Sure" White paper in 2012.

In this report we have adopted a whole system view to assess the trends and volumes of both crime and non-crime demands.

Are the police doing what we, as a society, need and want them to do?