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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Advance
No Relief: the impact of Covid 19 on women’s mental health
Advance conducted research with the women using their services during the first year of the pandemic, publishing findings and recommendations in their 2021 report, Women Demand Better Mental Health: t…
Anawim
Anawin Annual Report: 2022
Anawim’s published annual report: 2022 Keywords: family, feminist leadership, financial sustainability, funding, gender and trauma informed, gender responsive, gender specific, gender-responsive…
Birmingham and Lewisham African Caribbean Health Inequalities Review
The main aim of this review was to improve the health of Black African and Black Caribbean people by listening to them, recognising their priorities, discussing, and reflecting on findings and coprodu…
Missed and Lost Opportunities – Recognising Maternal Trauma in Probation Supervision
This article summarises key findings from an investigation into the long term impact of maternal imprisonment on maternal identity and role. Author: Dr Lucy Baldwin Keywords: criminal justice, early m…
Anawim
Bridging the gap: Dawn House – The First Five Years
Five years ago, Anawim established Dawn House, a residential centre for women leaving prison. Dawn House was designed to fill a gap in safe accommodation and support for women on short sentences leavi…
National Audit Office
Improving outcomes for women in the criminal justice system
This report largely focuses on the commitments of the Female Offender Strategy and does not aim to assess all the various individual interventions or initiatives carried out by the Ministry and wider …
Trevi
Trevi Impact Report: 2021-2022
Trevi’s published annual report: 2021 – 22 Keywords: domestic abuse, mental health, women centred, women centres, women only spaces Locations: South West England, United Kingdom…
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…
We Are Lancashire Women
Lancashire Women Annual Report: 2021-2022
Lancashire Women is governed by a board of trustees. These local volunteers bring on board expertise and experience in key areas including: health, justice and finance. Our Trustees have overall contr…
Women Beyond Walls
Forgotten by Funders – an exploratory report on the challenges of resourcing work with and for incarcerated women and girls worldwide
This is an exploratory report on the challenges of resourcing work with and for incarcerated women and girls worldwide and draws from the survey responses from 34 organisations working with this group…
Birth Companions
Why are pregnant women in prison
This study explores the reasons that pregnant women spend time in English prisons. This could be due to remand in custody (pre-trial detention), a custodial sentence, or recall during probation superv…
Crest Advisory
Counting the Cost of Maternal Imprisonment
This report focuses on the cost of female imprisonment for two particularly vulnerable groups; mothers who are imprisoned and their children. Maternal imprisonment also has a high cost for the taxpaye…