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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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…
Imkaan
Why Should Our Rage Be Tidy?
Black and minoritised women across the UK are enduring a mental health crisis driven by violence, trauma, systemic failures, and structural injustice. This report explores intersection and life-alteri…
Advance
Her Story, Her Justice – Making criminal justice work for women and girl survivors of domestic abuse
It is estimated that 2.1 million people experienced domestic abuse in England and Wales in the year ending March 2023. Despite legislative and policy progress made in recent years, the data tells a di…
Centre for Women's Justice
Life or Death: Preventing Domestic Homicides and Suicides of Black and Minoritised Women
This research examines the obstacles faced by Black and minoritised women who lose their lives in domestic homicide and suicide in the context of domestic abuse. Whilst these women may face many of th…
NHSE and HMPPS
The National Women’s Prisons Health and Social Care Review
Women in prison have disproportionately higher levels of health and social care needs than their male counterparts in prison and women in the general population. High numbers of women in prison experi…
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 …
Centre for Justice Innovation
‘A safe place & a safe time’ – Providing effective advocacy to Black and Minoritised victim-survivors of domestic abuse and harmful practices in contact with the CJS
Victim-survivors of domestic abuse and harmful practices who are also in contact with the criminal justice system often either choose to withdraw their case or see their cases dropped by criminal just…
Fabian Women's Network and the Fabian Society
Solidarity, equality and opportunity: creating strong social justice systems for women
Fabian Women’s Network ran five roundtables with shadow ministers, Welsh government ministers, police and crime commissioners, experts by experience, academics and charity sector experts. They f…
Centre for Women's Justice
Double Standard: Ending the unjust criminalisation of victims of violence against women and girls
This report sets out evidence of the unjust criminalisation of victims of VAWG in England and Wales for alleged offending resulting from their experience of abuse, and the reforms in law and practice …
Advance
No Relief: the impact of Covid 19 on women’s mental health
Advance conducted research with the women using their services during the first year of the pandemic, publishing findings and recommendations in their 2021 report, Women Demand Better Mental Health: t…
Women's Resource Centre
The Covid-19 Crisis and the UK Women’s Sector: One Year On
This is a follow-up survey to one published in June 2020. The first survey sought to find out the impact of COVID-19 on women’s organisations – their sustainability, the impact on the serv…