The research project JUSTIS (Scientific Indicators of Confidence in Justice: Tools for Police Assessment) develops and pilots survey-based indicators of public confidence in justice. The project seeks to develop scientifically credible indicators and consensus across member states about the importance of assessing crime policy against the criteria of public confidence. This report meets one of the project's objectives; to assess the perceived need for European social indicators of public confidence in justice for policy assessment and to examine the state of current tools. The report contains three parts. The first part covers the review of importance of public confidence as a tool for policy assessment in the seven participating JUSTIS countries (Bulgaria, Finland, France, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, and the United Kingdom). The second part contains reviews on literature and current indicators of confidence in justice and fear of crime. The third part of the report reviews current indicators of public confidence on a supra-national level, assessing the measurement of confidence in justice in international initiatives. Figures, tables, references, and charts