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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Prison Reform Trust
Growing numbers of long sentenced women struggling to progress through their sentence
Long-sentenced women, a small but increasing proportion of women in prison, are facing significant barriers to progressing through their sentence. The briefing is the third in the ‘Invisible Wom…
Staffordshire University and Centre for Justice Innovation
Women, addictions, mental health, dishonesty and crime stigma – solutions to reduce the social harms of stigma
British drug policies could underserve women with treatment needs, and this paper provides evidence that communication through the words and actions of professionals across drug and alcohol services, …
One Small Thing
Hope Street: A Trauma Informed Design Case Study
This briefing is a case study written by Mike Worthington RIBA, Director of Snug Architects about working with One Small Thing on the design and build of Hope Street in Hampshire. It explains how a Tr…
The Prison Advice and Care Trust (PACT)
Together A Chance Evaluation of the Social Worker for Mothers in Prison pilot project 2021-2023
Together a Chance (TaC) is a three-year pilot project to trial embedding a social worker in two women’s prisons, HMP Eastwood Park, Gloucestershire and HMP Send, Surrey. This pilot was led by Th…
One Small Thing
Building Hope: Co-producing trauma informed space with women in the justice system
Trauma theory has demonstrated how trauma lingers in the body and can be triggered by what survivors see, hear, feel and smell. Trauma-informed design starts with a recognition that all buildings have…
House of Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee
Cutting crime: better community sentences
Crime can be reduced through rigorous sentences served in the community. With the right investment, intensive community sentences can succeed where short prison sentences fail. As well as reducing off…
The Centre for Social Justice
Two Nations: The State of Poverty in the UK
The UK is in danger of sliding back into the “Two Nations” of the Victorian era marked by a widening gulf between mainstream society and a depressed and poverty-stricken underclass. Breakd…
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…
Staffordshire University and Centre for Justice Innovation
Exploring women’s experience of drug and alcohol treatment in the West Midlands
The Centre for Justice Innovation, Staffordshire University and Expert Citizens have received funding from The JABBS Foundation and the Office of the West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner to exp…
NHSE and HMPPS
The National Women’s Prisons Health and Social Care Review
Women in prison have disproportionately higher levels of health and social care needs than their male counterparts in prison and women in the general population. High numbers of women in prison experi…
Centre for Justice Innovation
Implementing Domestic Abuse Protection Notices and Orders
Following the introduction of Domestic Abuse Protection Notices (DAPNs) and Domestic Abuse Protection Orders (DAPOs), this briefing paper outlines the differences between DAPNs/DAPOS and the Domestic …
Birth Companions
Understanding the needs and experiences of women in contact with the criminal justice and children’s social care systems during pregnancy and early motherhood
In this briefing paper we shine a spotlight on the issues faced by women who have contact with both the criminal justice and children’s social care systems during pregnancy and the first two yea…