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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Corston Independent Funders' Coalition
Funding women’s access to justice: the Corston Independent Funders’ Coalition 2021 – 2024
This report from the Corston Independent Funders’ Coalition (CIFC) provides top level data on CIFC’s cumulative and co-funding between 2021 and 2024 and makes a call for more funders, both…
Clinks
Problem-Solving Courts for Women: a review of the evidence
This evidence review provides an in-depth look at women’s problem solving courts (WPSC), an important component in preventing the unnecessary incarceration of women. Dr Sarah Waite and Dr Alexan…
Agenda Alliance
Agenda Alliance: Ten years, one mission: our first impact report
Across the last decade, Agenda Alliance has worked tirelessly to build a better future for women and girls facing serious adversity. Their ten-year impact report details how Agenda Alliance has pushed…
Centre for Women's Justice
‘Doing his job for him’ How the criminal justice system responds when victims of coercive control are accused of offending
This report builds on CWJ’s Stop Criminalising Survivors film series and earlier research reports, Women Who Kill, Double Standard and No Safe Space, by presenting the detailed accounts of seven…
Independent Sentencing Review – Final report and proposals for reform
Commissioned by the Ministry of Justice in October 2024, the Independent Sentencing Review was given the task of a comprehensive re-evaluation of our sentencing framework, to ensure the country is nev…
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…
University of Hertfordshire
The Lost Mothers Project – Maternal Separation in English Prisons
This report presents the findings of the Lost Mothers Project, which explores the experiences of incarcerated mothers, separated from their babies, and the professionals who support them. The research…
Clinks
RR3 Advisory Group: Tackling Racial Disparities in the Criminal Justice System
This report is drawn from the work of the Reference Group on tackling racial disparities in the criminal justice system, a new forum convened by the RR3 in partnership with by Black Men 4 Change (BM4C…
Clinks
State of the Sector 2024: The voice of the voluntary sector working in criminal justice
For over a decade, Clinks has surveyed the voluntary sector working with people in contact with the criminal justice system, capturing a snapshot of the landscape and the conditions in which these org…
Centre for Crime and Justice Studies
Prison Service Journal (No 277) March 2025
This special edition of Prison Service Journal focusses on the issues of women, criminalisation and the need for differential approaches that recognise the part that gender plays in women’s path…
National Women's Justice Coalition (NWJC)
Breaking Out of the Justice Loop: Creating a criminal justice system that works for women
Breaking out of the Justice Loop argues that the criminal justice system, designed for men, has consistently failed women for years and that women’s centres and a public health approach must be …
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…