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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Lankelly Chase
The Domino Effect
This first person blog from Lilly Lewis, a domestic abuse and prison reform campaigner, is an honest account of her experience and how the domino effect of rejection, dependency, abuse, and shame led …
Fulfilling Lives Lambeth Southwark Lewisham
Understanding Models of Support for People Facing Multiple Disadvantage: A Literature Review
This literature review brings together broad, multidisciplinary evidence about access to services, transitions within services, and understanding about how the system behaves for people facing multipl…
Transform Justice
Reframing crime and justice: a guide to improving communications
This guide for criminal justice communicators provides a wealth of tips, tricks and advice on how to communicate persuasively about criminal justice reform in a way that builds public support and acce…
Tavistock Institute
Partnership working for women and girls
Partnership working is more important than ever. Across the women and girls sector, organisations are pulling together to meet the needs of the most vulnerable and finding that partnership approaches …
Women's Resource Centre
The Crisis of COVID-19 and UK Women’s Charities
This report clearly highlights that the coronavirus outbreak poses a real threat to the sustainability and survival of these very organisations and a precarious future for the UK’s women’s sector as a…
Advance
A place to go like this – Breaking the cycle of harm for mothers involved in offending who are survivors of domestic abuse…
In this report Advance explores how violence against women and girls lies at the heart of the intergenerational cycle of harm, including links with serious youth violence. Keywords: ACEs, girls, harm,
Centre for Justice Innovation
Pre-court diversion for women: Evidence and practice briefing
This briefing aims to support practitioners seeking to develop or improve gender-specific pre-court diversion. It outlines the evidence base around women’s offending and the specific needs of wo…
Lankelly Chase, Heriot-Watt University, DMSS Research
Gender Matters: Gendered patterns of severe and multiple disadvantage in England
This seminal report considers the ways in which disadvantage presents differently in women, showing that interpersonal violence and abuse and poor mental health demonstrate gendered differences in the…
Khidmat Centres
Sisters in Desistance Community-based solutions for Muslim women post-prison
This report examines the social stigmas and taboos faced by incarcerated women and scopes the challenges experienced by Muslim women on their release back to the community. Piloted at the Khidmat Cent…
Ministry of Justice
The Importance of Strengthening Female Offenders’ Family and Other Relationships to Prevent Reoffending and Reduce Intergenerational Crime
Lord Farmer’s second review looks at strengthening family and other relational ties across both custody and the community through the lens of female offenders. It finds that supporting women to …
Brainkind (previously The Disabilities Trust)
Making the Link: Female Offending and Brain Injury
In the first study of its kind, The Disabilities Trust provided a dedicated service to support the identification and rehabilitation of female offenders with a history of brain injury, in HMP/YOI Drak…
Alternative approaches to prison for mothers of young children
England and Wales has the highest incarceration rate in Europe and approximately 11,000 women receive a custodial sentence each year. Sixty-six per cent of women in prison are mothers of children unde…