Objective EURO-JUSTIS (Justice Indicators) is a project designed to provide EU institutions and Member States with new indicators for assessing public confidence in justice. Member States are making growing use of social indicators to improve policy and its assessment, but limited progress has been made in criminal justice. Common-sense indicators based on readily available statistics – such as crime trends – have been used extensively. Much less attention has been paid to crucial but hard-to-measure indicators about public confidence in justice. Without such indicators, there is a risk that crime policies may become over-focussed on short-term objectives of crime control, at the expense of equally important longer-term objectives relating to justice. The project is based on the assumption that an effective justice system must assess itself not only against narrow criteria of crime control, but against broader criteria relating to people’s trust in justice and their sense of security. In the long term, public compliance with the law depends on the legitimacy of institutions of justice. Institutions command legitimacy if people recognise that they are fair, just and provide public security. The project will develop and pilot survey-based indicators of public confidence in justice – a term used here to embrace issues relating to fairness, trust and insecurity. It will assemble contextual data for interpreting the indicators – on the assumption that there are close relationships between public perceptions of justice and the substantive quality of justice as reflected in the workings of the justice process. It will develop tools for presenting and interpreting the indicators in ways that are intuitive and accessible. The project will aim not only to develop scientifically credible indicators but also to build some consensus across Member States about the importance of assessing crime policy against criteria of public confidence, making effective dissemination a priority. Fields of science social scienceslaw Keywords SECURITY AND JUSTICE SOCIAL INDICATORS POLICY ASSESSMENT PUBLIC CONFIDENCE CRIMINAL JUSTICE CRIME FEAR FREEDOM crime fear criminal justice freedom policy assessment public confidence security and justice social indicators Programme(s) FP7-SSH - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities Topic(s) SSH-2007-6.2-01 - Improved ways of measuring both the potential for and impact of policies Call for proposal FP7-SSH-2007-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP-FP - Small or medium-scale focused research project Coordinator The Institute for Criminal Policy Research (ICPR) Address Store street 42 WC1E 7DB London United Kingdom See on map Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Michael Hough (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window EU contribution € 91 372,30 Participants (9) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS France EU contribution € 166 085,40 Address Rue michel ange 3 75794 Paris See on map Region Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Paris Administrative Contact Jean Xavier Boucherle (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF DEMOCRACY Bulgaria EU contribution € 114 440,00 Address Alexander zhendov street 5 1113 Sofia See on map Region Югозападна и Южна централна България Югозападен София (столица) Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Boyko Todorov (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window The European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control, affiliated with the United Nations Finland EU contribution € 196 018,00 Address Pitkansillanranta 3 a 00531 Helsinki See on map Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Jaana Ryan (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window TARSADALOMTUDOMANYI KUTATOKOZPONT Hungary EU contribution € 77 360,60 Address Toth kalman u 4 1097 Budapest See on map Region Közép-Magyarország Budapest Budapest Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Gabriella Szabó (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE United Kingdom EU contribution € 179 624,00 Address Houghton street 1 WC2A 2AE London See on map Region London Inner London — West Westminster Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Andrew Farrell (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window NUSIKALSTAMUMO PREVENCIJOS LIETUVOJE CENTRAS Lithuania EU contribution € 101 880,00 Address Basanaviciaus 35/3 03109 Vilnius See on map Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Andrejus Piliavecas (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PARMA Italy EU contribution € 195 344,00 Address Via universita 12 43100 Parma See on map Region Nord-Est Emilia-Romagna Parma Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Cristiana Zani (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD United Kingdom EU contribution € 166 849,70 Address Firth court western bank S10 2TN Sheffield See on map Region Yorkshire and the Humber South Yorkshire Sheffield Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Gill Wells (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window KING'S COLLEGE LONDON Participation ended United Kingdom EU contribution € 210 970,00 Address Strand WC2R 2LS London See on map Region London Inner London — West Westminster Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Paul Labbett (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window
