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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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…
Motherhood Challenged: Exploring the persisting impact of maternal imprisonment on maternal identity & role
This research investigates the intersection of motherhood and criminal in the UK in order to better understand the experiences of mothers and grandmothers before, during and after prison. The original…
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…
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…
Short but not sweet: A study of the impact of short custodial sentences on mothers & their children
This research report bears powerful witness to the harsh impact on women and their children of the short custodial sentences too often meted out in the name of justice. It draws attention to the rippl…