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 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 …
Pro Bono Economics
Underfunded, under resourced and under the radar: the state of the women and girls’ social sector
In the summer of 2024, ROSA, the UK funder for women and girls, commissioned Pro Bono Economics (PBE) to conduct a comprehensive survey to help them better understand the depth and breadth of challeng…
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 …
Greater Manchester Women's Support Alliance
Greater Manchester Women’s Support Alliance Annual Report: 2023-2024
Greater Manchester Women’s Support Alliance Annual Report: 2023 – 24 Keywords: best practice, charity sector, community support, criminal justice system, gender responsive, gender specific…
National Women's Justice Coalition (NWJC)
Understanding how women’s centres work
Women’s centres are demonstrably the most effective way to support women in contact with the criminal justice system to remove themselves from harmful situations and cycles of offending by acces…
National Women's Justice Coalition (NWJC)
Why women’s centres and specialist services need sustainable funding
Despite widespread recognition and evidence demonstrating the value of women’s centres, women’s services are consistently underfunded. This leads to inadequate, inequitable, and precarious…
National Women's Justice Coalition (NWJC)
Understanding a Whole Systems Approach and why partnership working is valuable in the women’s sector
This briefing outlines the value and impact of partnership working across the women’s sector and explains how the Whole Systems Approach (WSA) focuses on building these partnerships to give wome…
Birth Companions
Reproductive justice and the climate emergency in the UK
Climate change, global heating, air pollution, toxic chemicals, environmental degradation and the decline of nature – referred to collectively as the climate and biodiversity emergency – p…