The Department of Justice and Equality launched the findings from an international literature review on confidence in criminal justice systems on Monday 2nd December. The report, which was prepared by Professor Claire Hamilton and Dr. Lynsey Black of Maynooth University, was launched by the Research and Data Analytics unit in the Department.
Undertaken to assist policy formation in the department, the review sought to address a range of questions relating to how public confidence in the criminal justice system is measured in different countries, what drives that confidence, and what measures have been deployed to improve it.
It is the second in a series of pieces of research that have been commissioned by the Research and Data Analytics unit and builds on the Department’s commitment, outlined in the 2018-2020 Data and Research Strategy, to support the development of more evidence-informed policy making.