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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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…
Birth Companions
Understanding the circumstances, experiences and outcomes of women with children’s social care involvement who died during or in the year after pregnancy
This briefing paper provides a summary of research conducted by partners at King’s College London, University of Oxford, Birth Companions and other collaborators. The study analysed UK national …
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…
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…
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 …
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…
University of Birmingham
Exploring Needs Profiles in Criminal Justice-Involved Women
This report examines the WRNA (Women’s Risk and Needs Assessment) validation project, investigating the needs and strengths of women who attend women’s centres across the UK. The study exa…
University of Birmingham
Examining the relationship between severity and complexity of needs among women involved in the Criminal Justice System
The research looked at the needs, adverse life events, vulnerabilities and strengths for women as identified through the Women’s Risk Needs Assessment (WRNA) tool, and the relationships between …
Hibiscus
Unsafe, Insecure: barriers to safe housing for Black and minoritised migrant women
Over half of the women Hibiscus supported in the community in the last year reported housing insecurity, with those affected nearly twice as likely to suffer from mental health issues. This report and…
National Women's Justice Coalition (NWJC)
Understanding the disadvantage & inequality experienced by women in contact with the CJS
Women in contact with the criminal justice system often experience different challenges rooted in structural and systemic inequalities at the same time, and the criminalisation of women is often under…
Staffordshire University and Centre for Justice Innovation
Identifying alcohol and drug related harms and appropriate treatment pathways for women
In 2022 and 2023 Staffordshire University and Expert Citizens CIC collaboratively collected data with women with lived experience of drug and alcohol services in the West Midlands through interviews a…