In our new blog we argue that it’s not incidents of crime and anti-social behaviour themselves that matter most but what they represent: that no one is in charge, that social norms are eroding and that the fabric of everyday life is under threat.

This report calls for a neighbourhood-based approach to tackling crime and antisocial behaviour, grounded in evidence that strong community relationships — alongside enforcement — are essential to creating safer places. It sets out five areas of action to support this goal.

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🔹Social cohesion and trust can act as protective factors, particularly in areas of disadvantage. 🔹Crime and ASB matter to communities — they act as wider signals of neighbourhood decline.

Key findings:.🔹Crime is heavily concentrated and persistent in areas of multiple disadvantage.🔹Disadvantage and instability reinforce each other, weakening community control. 🔹The built environment shapes both risk and resilience.

Crest Insights has published a new report, commissioned by @iconeighbours on why neighbourhoods must be at the heart of crime policy — both as spaces where crime is experienced and as sites of potential solutions.

RT @_YJB: 🚨@CrestAdvisory has shared some key insights from its recent research to mark Child First Day. Commissioned by the YJB, the rese….

There’s still time to join the YJB’s Child First Day webinar at 2:30 today (20th August), where Jess will be sharing insights from our research on applying the Child First framework in youth justice services.

As part of our YJB commissioned research, we engaged children directly via a national survey to understand their experiences at their youth justice service, and to build evidence on how the tenets of the Child First framework translate into practice.

To mark the @_YJB's Child First Day today, our new blog by our Senior Strategy and Insight Manager Jess Hull explores key insights from Crest’s recent research on how the Child First framework is applied in youth justice services.

In his foreword, Sir Stephen Kavanagh, former Executive Director of Police Services at INTERPOL, puts it plainly: “The criminal threats have moved on – and we haven’t.”.

Key recommendations:.◆Launch a tech-driven offensive to disrupt full criminal operations.◆Impose cross-border sanctions on criminals and complicit financial institutions.◆Deploy coordinated international sting operations to cut supply chains.

We propose a bold new strategy: a Five Eyes-style Serious Organised Crime Alliance, built to dismantle entire networks, not just chase individuals in a game of whack-a-mole.

Our research shows how serious organised crime has evolved from old-school mobsters to complex, multinational criminal enterprises that rival legitimate high-growth businesses.

New report out today: A New International Approach to Beating Serious and Organised Crime – a collaboration between Crest Advisory and @InstituteGC . Read the full paper here:

How can the Crown Prosecution Service better support victims of crime?. Crest Analyst Helena Procopis reflects on our work helping the CPS deliver more timely, empathetic and effective support through the Victim Transformation Programme. 🧵Read more:

Our partnership allows Police Now officers the opportunity to gain a broader understanding of the criminal justice system beyond operational policing - and it gives our staff the chance to learn valuable insights from frontline practice to enrich policy and strategy development.

In our latest blog, Police Now neighbourhood officer Carys reflects on her time at Crest and the government’s new Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee. Read the blog below:

🔹Shoplifting incidents have hit a 20 year high.🔹Fraud reports continue to rise - now making up nearly half of all crime.🔹There are small but consistent falls in violent crime - but overall figures remain high.🔹A new way of measuring VAWG highlights the scale of the issue.

This week the Office for National Statistics published the crime statistics for the year ending March 2025. What key changes to crime do they show and what do they mean for policing?. Read our blog here:

On 10 July we hosted a webinar with the @_YJB to discuss our new report on applying the Child First framework across youth justice services in England and Wales. Thank you to everyone who joined. If you missed it, you can watch the webinar here: