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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Birth Companions
Understanding the circumstances, experiences and outcomes of women with children’s social care involvement who died during or in the year after pregnancy
This briefing paper provides a summary of research conducted by partners at King’s College London, University of Oxford, Birth Companions and other collaborators. The study analysed UK national …
National Women's Justice Coalition (NWJC)
The Women’s Centre Model – the Financial Case for Alternatives to Prison
This briefing, co-produced by the National Women’s Justice Coalition and the UK Women’s Budget Group, pulls together new data, key evidence and central arguments to support the financial c…
Independent Sentencing Review Panel
Independent Sentencing Review: History and Trends in Sentencing
This paper is intended to provide an explanation for why the UK prison system has reached crisis point. The prison population has grown very rapidly over the last 30 years, with the principal cause of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 Birth Companions 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…
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…