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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National Women's Justice Coalition (NWJC)
Understanding the disadvantage & inequality experienced by women in contact with the CJS
Women in contact with the criminal justice system often experience different challenges rooted in structural and systemic inequalities at the same time, and the criminalisation of women is often under…
National Women's Justice Coalition (NWJC)
Understanding a Whole Systems Approach and why partnership working is valuable in the women’s sector
This briefing outlines the value and impact of partnership working across the women’s sector and explains how the Whole Systems Approach (WSA) focuses on building these partnerships to give wome…
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…
Advance
Her Story, Her Justice – Making criminal justice work for women and girl survivors of domestic abuse
It is estimated that 2.1 million people experienced domestic abuse in England and Wales in the year ending March 2023. Despite legislative and policy progress made in recent years, the data tells a di…
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, …
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
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…
National Women's Justice Coalition (NWJC)
Co-designing the National Women’s Justice Coalition’s Voice and Advisory Panel of experts by experience
Authors: Abbi Ayers, Hareem Hussain and Michelle Wright…
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…
Birth Companions
Reproductive justice and the climate emergency in the UK
Climate change, global heating, air pollution, toxic chemicals, environmental degradation and the decline of nature – referred to collectively as the climate and biodiversity emergency – p…
Centre for Justice Innovation
Drug and alcohol treatment services for women: A guide to commissioning
This briefing intends to help commissioners utilise much-needed additional funding under the Government’s 10-year drugs strategy, From Harm to Hope, to create a legacy of partnership working tha…
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…