Ending Racial Disproportionality in the Criminal Justice System

This briefing from the Women’s Justice Reimagined partnership and the APPG on Women Affected by the Criminal Justice System sets out the urgent need to end racial disproportionality across the criminal justice system. Drawing on lived experience testimony, specialist frontline insight and national evidence, it highlights how Black, Asian, racially minoritised and migrant women face systemic racism, over-policing, harsher sentencing, and reduced access to support — often in the context of violence, exploitation, trauma and insecure immigration status. The resource outlines the structural changes required from the Women’s Justice Board and policymakers, including embedding anti‑racist practice, improving disaggregated data, strengthening protections for victim/survivors of VAWG and modern slavery, and centring the leadership of women with lived experience. It provides a clear set of recommendations to build a justice system that recognises women’s intersecting identities and meets their needs with dignity, equity and accountability.

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