Resource Library
The NWJC champions and promotes best practice for working with women in contact with the criminal justice system.
This library catalogues a wide range of resources that consolidate and demonstrate the collective wisdom and expertise of women’s organisations and criminal justice specialists. It contains briefing papers, reports, policy documents, current research and other useful resources that provide insight, expertise and best practice examples for working with and supporting women and girls.
Resources can be filtered by keywords, themes, organisation and format and search results include links to further information and downloadable content.
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National Women's Justice Coalition (NWJC)
Understanding how women’s centres work
Women’s centres are demonstrably the most effective way to support women in contact with the criminal justice system to remove themselves from harmful situations and cycles of offending by acces…
National Women's Justice Coalition (NWJC)
Why women’s centres and specialist services need sustainable funding
Despite widespread recognition and evidence demonstrating the value of women’s centres, women’s services are consistently underfunded. This leads to inadequate, inequitable, and precarious…
National Women's Justice Coalition (NWJC)
Understanding the disadvantage & inequality experienced by women in contact with the CJS
Women in contact with the criminal justice system often experience different challenges rooted in structural and systemic inequalities at the same time, and the criminalisation of women is often under…
National Women's Justice Coalition (NWJC)
Understanding a Whole Systems Approach and why partnership working is valuable in the women’s sector
This briefing outlines the value and impact of partnership working across the women’s sector and explains how the Whole Systems Approach (WSA) focuses on building these partnerships to give wome…
Prison Reform Trust
Growing numbers of long sentenced women struggling to progress through their sentence
Long-sentenced women, a small but increasing proportion of women in prison, are facing significant barriers to progressing through their sentence. The briefing is the third in the ‘Invisible Wom…
Birth Companions
Reproductive justice and the climate emergency in the UK
Climate change, global heating, air pollution, toxic chemicals, environmental degradation and the decline of nature – referred to collectively as the climate and biodiversity emergency – p…
Centre for Justice Innovation
Implementing Domestic Abuse Protection Notices and Orders
Following the introduction of Domestic Abuse Protection Notices (DAPNs) and Domestic Abuse Protection Orders (DAPOs), this briefing paper outlines the differences between DAPNs/DAPOS and the Domestic …
Birth Companions
Understanding the needs and experiences of women in contact with the criminal justice and children’s social care systems during pregnancy and early motherhood
In this briefing paper we shine a spotlight on the issues faced by women who have contact with both the criminal justice and children’s social care systems during pregnancy and the first two yea…
University of Southampton
Growing Hope and Power: charities, academics and evidence
This project explored the dynamics relating to the academic and third sector, particularly the opportunities and challenges to collaborating, with the aim of achieving positive change. The project too…
Centre for Justice Innovation
Problem-solving courts for women: An evidence & practice briefing
In 2020, the Ministry of Justice announced its intention to pilot five new problem-solving courts, including one which should specifically focus on the distinct needs of women who offend. Based on the…
Women's Budget Group
The Case for Sustainable Funding for Women’s Centres
Women’s Centres are specialist community support services for women facing multiple disadvantages, including women involved in (or at risk of involvement in) the criminal justice system. They ar…
Tavistock Institute
Partnership working for women and girls
Partnership working is more important than ever. Across the women and girls sector, organisations are pulling together to meet the needs of the most vulnerable and finding that partnership approaches …