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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University of Southampton
Reflections on charities – academics and practitioners making change happen together
Dr Kate Paradine makes the case that if academics, charities and practitioners are to maximise our impact and finally create a sea change in the imprisonment of women (and more broadly across the crim…
Anawim
Anawin Annual Report: 2023
Anawim’s published annual report: 2023 Keywords: alternatives to prison, charity sector, co-production, collaboration, community based services, data, funding, gender specific, gender-responsive…
Centre for Justice Innovation
‘A safe place & a safe time’ – Providing effective advocacy to Black and Minoritised victim-survivors of domestic abuse and harmful practices in contact with the CJS
Victim-survivors of domestic abuse and harmful practices who are also in contact with the criminal justice system often either choose to withdraw their case or see their cases dropped by criminal just…
Fabian Women's Network and the Fabian Society
Solidarity, equality and opportunity: creating strong social justice systems for women
Fabian Women’s Network ran five roundtables with shadow ministers, Welsh government ministers, police and crime commissioners, experts by experience, academics and charity sector experts. They f…
Clinks
State of the Sector 2022: Key trends working in the voluntary sector working in criminal justice 2021/22
This research explores how the voluntary sector working in criminal justice fared during the 2021/22 financial year. The findings are based on 97 responses to an online survey and eight in-depth inter…
Hibiscus
Hibiscus Annual Report: 2022-2023
Hibiscus Initatives’ published annual report: 2022 – 23 Keywords: immigration, intersectionality, migration, women centres, women’s charities Locations: London, United Kingdom…
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…
One Small Thing
Trauma Informed and Gender Responsive Working Snapshot Survey
What do practitioners think it means to be trauma informed and gender responsive today? And what are the barriers that still exist that prevent them working in this way? One Small Thing conducted snap…
Ministry of Justice
Female Offender Strategy Delivery Plan 2022-2025
This Delivery Plan sets out how Government will deliver four key priorities to reduce women’s offending over the period of the 2022-25 Spending Review. Keywords: alternatives to prison, b…
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…
Centre for Women's Justice
Double Standard: Ending the unjust criminalisation of victims of violence against women and girls
This report sets out evidence of the unjust criminalisation of victims of VAWG in England and Wales for alleged offending resulting from their experience of abuse, and the reforms in law and practice …
Women in Prison
The Value of Women’s Centres
Women’s Centres take an approach that encompasses all aspects of a woman’s life and provide services and support from housing and finances to domestic abuse and harmful substance use. Wome…