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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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 Birth Companions 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…
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…
Birth Companions
Birth Charter for Women with Involvement from Children’s Social Care
This Birth Charter sets out how services and systems in England should support all women involved with children’s social care from conception to their child’s second birthday. The Charter …
Fabian Women's Network and the Fabian Society
Solidarity, equality and opportunity: creating strong social justice systems for women
Fabian Women’s Network ran five roundtables with shadow ministers, Welsh government ministers, police and crime commissioners, experts by experience, academics and charity sector experts. They f…
Advance
No Relief: the impact of Covid 19 on women’s mental health
Advance conducted research with the women using their services during the first year of the pandemic, publishing findings and recommendations in their 2021 report, Women Demand Better Mental Health: t…
Birmingham and Lewisham African Caribbean Health Inequalities Review
The main aim of this review was to improve the health of Black African and Black Caribbean people by listening to them, recognising their priorities, discussing, and reflecting on findings and coprodu…
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
Women Demand Better Mental Health
The impact of abuse, trauma and the Covid-19 pandemic on women’s mental health Keywords: community based services, lived experience, mental health Locations: Bedfordshire, Essex, Hampshire, Hert…
Women's Resource Centre
The Covid-19 Crisis and the UK Women’s Sector: One Year On
This is a follow-up survey to one published in June 2020. The first survey sought to find out the impact of COVID-19 on women’s organisations – their sustainability, the impact on the serv…
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…
Advance
The social factors influencing early sexual relationships among young women who have been involved in the criminal justice system and the health impacts
What social factors influence early sexual relationships among young women who have been involved in the criminal justice system, and what are the health impacts of these relationships? A Space To Lea…
Lankelly Chase
The Domino Effect
This first person blog from Lilly Lewis, a domestic abuse and prison reform campaigner, is an honest account of her experience and how the domino effect of rejection, dependency, abuse, and shame led …