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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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 Author: Abbi Ayers, Hareem Hussain and Michelle Wright Keywords: best practice, co-design, co-production, collaboration, lived experience, MOJ, …
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…
Parental Rights in Prison Project (PRiP)
The aim of the Parental Rights in Prison Project (PRiP) was to support incarcerated parents who wished to sustain their relationship with their children who are in the care of the local authority, car…
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…
Advance
Advance Charity Annual Report: 2023
Advance Charity’s published annual report: 2022 – 23 Keywords: criminal justice system, gender specific, lived experience, systems change, trauma, trauma informed, whole systems approach, …