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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Women's Resource Centre
The Crisis of COVID-19 and UK Women’s Charities
This report clearly highlights that the coronavirus outbreak poses a real threat to the sustainability and survival of these very organisations and a precarious future for the UK’s women’s sector as a…
Advance
A place to go like this – Breaking the cycle of harm for mothers involved in offending who are survivors of domestic abuse…
In this report Advance explores how violence against women and girls lies at the heart of the intergenerational cycle of harm, including links with serious youth violence. Keywords: ACEs, girls, harm,
Lankelly Chase, Heriot-Watt University, DMSS Research
Gender Matters: Gendered patterns of severe and multiple disadvantage in England
This seminal report considers the ways in which disadvantage presents differently in women, showing that interpersonal violence and abuse and poor mental health demonstrate gendered differences in the…
Khidmat Centres
Sisters in Desistance Community-based solutions for Muslim women post-prison
This report examines the social stigmas and taboos faced by incarcerated women and scopes the challenges experienced by Muslim women on their release back to the community. Piloted at the Khidmat Cent…
Ministry of Justice
The Importance of Strengthening Female Offenders’ Family and Other Relationships to Prevent Reoffending and Reduce Intergenerational Crime
Lord Farmer’s second review looks at strengthening family and other relational ties across both custody and the community through the lens of female offenders. It finds that supporting women to …
Brainkind (previously The Disabilities Trust)
Making the Link: Female Offending and Brain Injury
In the first study of its kind, The Disabilities Trust provided a dedicated service to support the identification and rehabilitation of female offenders with a history of brain injury, in HMP/YOI Drak…
Alternative approaches to prison for mothers of young children
England and Wales has the highest incarceration rate in Europe and approximately 11,000 women receive a custodial sentence each year. Sixty-six per cent of women in prison are mothers of children unde…
Women's Resource Centre
Hearing Women’s Voices: Why Women 2018
Hearing women’s voices: Why Women 2018 provides current, robust evidence of the value and effectiveness of women’s organisations. It updates the original why women? campaign, which was launched in Nov…
Short but not sweet: A study of the impact of short custodial sentences on mothers & their children
This research report bears powerful witness to the harsh impact on women and their children of the short custodial sentences too often meted out in the name of justice. It draws attention to the rippl…
Brighton Women's Centre
Re-offending behaviour after participation in the Brighton Women’s Centre
This analysis looked at the re-offending behaviour of 44 women who were supported by Brighton Women’s Centre’s Inspire programme after receiving a community sentence.
Agenda Alliance
Double Disadvantage – The experiences of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic women in the criminal justice system
This report captures the voices, experiences and reflections of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) women with experience of the criminal justice system. It was commissioned to feed into the Lammy…
WomenCentre
Women Centred Working – Taking Forward Women Centred Solutions
Women Centred Working is an initiative to encourage the design and delivery of more effective services for women who are facing multiple disadvantages. Women centred ways of working can get to the roo…