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.
Please contact us to recommend any additional resources that should be added to the Resource Library.
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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 …
Centre for Justice Innovation
Pre-court diversion for women: Evidence and practice briefing
This briefing aims to support practitioners seeking to develop or improve gender-specific pre-court diversion. It outlines the evidence base around women’s offending and the specific needs of wo…
Tavistock Institute
Why Women’s Centres Work
This evidence briefing has been developed as a resource for Women’s Centres, to support their conversations with commissioners at a local and regional level. It is intended to help commissioners…
Prison Reform Trust
“There’s a reason we’re in trouble” – Domestic abuse as a driver to women’s offending
Many women in prison have been victims of much more serious offences than the ones they are accused of, with a growing body of research indicating that women’s exposure to physical, emotional an…
Centre for Crime and Justice Studies
Trapped in the Justice Loop? Past, present and future of the woman-centred services at the heart of the systems-change called for in the Corston Report
Ten years on from the publication of the Corston Report, this review offers an analysis of the role envisaged for woman-centred services in the systems-change proposed by Baroness Corston. It charts t…
FrameWorks Institute
New Narratives: Changing the Frame on Crime and Justice
This report summarises an extensive body of research and lays out a new framing strategy for those working to reform the criminal justice system. The work described was conducted in partnership with T…