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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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…
Ministry of Justice
The Importance of Strengthening Female Offenders’ Family and Other Relationships to Prevent Reoffending and Reduce Intergenerational Crime
Lord Farmer’s second review looks at strengthening family and other relational ties across both custody and the community through the lens of female offenders. It finds that supporting women to …
Brainkind (previously The Disabilities Trust)
Making the Link: Female Offending and Brain Injury
In the first study of its kind, The Disabilities Trust provided a dedicated service to support the identification and rehabilitation of female offenders with a history of brain injury, in HMP/YOI Drak…
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…
Agenda Alliance
Double Disadvantage – The experiences of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic women in the criminal justice system
This report captures the voices, experiences and reflections of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) women with experience of the criminal justice system. It was commissioned to feed into the Lammy…
FrameWorks Institute
New Narratives: Changing the Frame on Crime and Justice
This report summarises an extensive body of research and lays out a new framing strategy for those working to reform the criminal justice system. The work described was conducted in partnership with T…
WomenCentre
Women Centred Working – Taking Forward Women Centred Solutions
Women Centred Working is an initiative to encourage the design and delivery of more effective services for women who are facing multiple disadvantages. Women centred ways of working can get to the roo…