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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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…
Birmingham and Lewisham African Caribbean Health Inequalities Review
The main aim of this review was to improve the health of Black African and Black Caribbean people by listening to them, recognising their priorities, discussing, and reflecting on findings and coprodu…
Anawim
Bridging the gap: Dawn House – The First Five Years
Five years ago, Anawim established Dawn House, a residential centre for women leaving prison. Dawn House was designed to fill a gap in safe accommodation and support for women on short sentences leavi…
Hibiscus
Tackling Double Disadvantage: Ending inequality for Black, Asian, minoritised and migrant women in the criminal justice system
The aim has been to improve outcomes and reduce inequalities and discrimination against Black, Asian, minoritised and migrant women in contact with the criminal justice system. To achieve this through…
Crest Advisory
Counting the Cost of Maternal Imprisonment
This report focuses on the cost of female imprisonment for two particularly vulnerable groups; mothers who are imprisoned and their children. Maternal imprisonment also has a high cost for the taxpaye…
Hibiscus
Black Women’s Experiences of the Criminal Justice System
In February 2021, Hibiscus organised a roundtable discussion with Black women about their lived experiences of the criminal justice and immigration systems in the UK. Six of the women attending were H…
One Small Thing
The Intergenerational Traumatic Impact of Maternal Imprisonment
One Small Thing collaborated with Dr Sophie Mitchell from Northumbria University to launch and disseminate her research on the intergenerational impact on maternal imprisonment. Her research interview…
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…
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…