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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Centre for Women's Justice
‘Doing his job for him’ How the criminal justice system responds when victims of coercive control are accused of offending
This report builds on CWJ’s Stop Criminalising Survivors film series and earlier research reports, Women Who Kill, Double Standard and No Safe Space, by presenting the detailed accounts of seven…
Clinks
RR3 Advisory Group: Tackling Racial Disparities in the Criminal Justice System
This report is drawn from the work of the Reference Group on tackling racial disparities in the criminal justice system, a new forum convened by the RR3 in partnership with by Black Men 4 Change (BM4C…
Imkaan
Why Should Our Rage Be Tidy?
Black and minoritised women across the UK are enduring a mental health crisis driven by violence, trauma, systemic failures, and structural injustice. This report explores intersection and life-alteri…
Hibiscus
Unsafe, Insecure: barriers to safe housing for Black and minoritised migrant women
Over half of the women Hibiscus supported in the community in the last year reported housing insecurity, with those affected nearly twice as likely to suffer from mental health issues. This report and…
Hibiscus
Race, Migration, Criminalisation and Mental Health
The gendered experiences of Black, minoritised and migrant women in contact with the criminal justice system supported by Hibiscus Initiatives. Author: Pricille Manga, Naomi Nyamwya Keywords: barriers…
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…
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…
Working Chance
Worst-Case Scenario: How racism in the criminal justice system harms women’s chances of finding work
This research explores how gender and racial inequality in the criminal justice system creates poorer employment outcomes for racially minoritised women.
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…
Hibiscus
Cultural Mediation: An inclusive solution to help reduce the cultural and language barriers experienced by survivors of trafficking
Hibiscus has developed a pilot project to identify ways to support survivors of trafficking and gender-based violence and identified that the application of cultural mediation has been used in Europe …
Muslim Women in Prison
Muslim Women in Prison Second Chance, Fresh Horizons
This report examines the needs and experiences of Muslim women at HMP & YOI New Hall and Askham Grange prisons during custody and post-release. Author: Dr Sofia Buncy and Ishtiaq Ahmed Keyw…