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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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…
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…
Advance
Advance Charity Annual Report: 2023
Advance Charity’s published annual report: 2022 – 23 Keywords: criminal justice system, gender specific, lived experience, systems change, trauma, trauma informed, whole systems approach, …
Pro Bono Economics
Women and the charity sector
There is a profound – and often under-discussed – gender imbalance in the charity sector. While women make up 68% of the charity sector’s employees, they only make up between 56% and…
Agenda Alliance
Dismantling Disadvantage: Levelling up public services for women with multiple unmet needs
This report provides a timely assessment of the ways in which public services can be reformed to better meet women’s needs. Keywords: co-production, commissioning, culturally responsive support,
Routes to power and influence for UK women’s organisations
This report consoldiates research conducted in spring and early summer of 2022 and seeks to explore and understand the opportunities for small and grassroots women’s organisations to catalyse ch…
Women in Prison
The Value of Women’s Centres
Women’s Centres take an approach that encompasses all aspects of a woman’s life and provide services and support from housing and finances to domestic abuse and harmful substance use. Wome…
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…
Advance
London Women’s Diversion Service – The impact of community support on diverting women from the criminal justice system
This report summarises the findings and learnings by Advance and its delivery partners, based on an analysis of the data, case records and women’s lived experiences shared with Advance between N…
Tavistock Institute
Partnership working for women and girls
Partnership working is more important than ever. Across the women and girls sector, organisations are pulling together to meet the needs of the most vulnerable and finding that partnership approaches …
Tavistock Institute
Why Women’s Centres Work
This evidence briefing has been developed as a resource for Women’s Centres, to support their conversations with commissioners at a local and regional level. It is intended to help commissioners…