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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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…
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…
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…
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, …
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…
Centre for Women's Justice
Life or Death: Preventing Domestic Homicides and Suicides of Black and Minoritised Women
This research examines the obstacles faced by Black and minoritised women who lose their lives in domestic homicide and suicide in the context of domestic abuse. Whilst these women may face many of th…
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…
Pro Bono Economics
Women and the charity sector
There is a profound – and often under-discussed – gender imbalance in the charity sector. While women make up 68% of the charity sector’s employees, they only make up between 56% and…