Women in contact with the Criminal Justice System
All the latest Stats Research Policy Best practice
Tackling double disadvantage
A 10-point action plan to end inequality for Black, Asian, minoritised and
migrant women in the criminal justice system.
The bail system disadvantages foreign national women
Griffins Society finds foreign national women more likely to be
remanded in custody than their British counterparts, often for less serious offences.
MoJ has under invested in its female offender strategy
The National Audit Office says that the MoJ has made limited progress on its Female Offender Strategy because of lack of investment.
A new approach to women’s prisons?
What does the prisons white paper say about the government’s new approach to women’s prisons?
Women serving long sentences are “invisible”
Prison Reform Trust highlights the far-reaching consequences of a lack of specialist, gender-specific, trauma informed provision for women serving long sentences.
The power of creative writing in prison
How bleak is the crow’s nest. An anthology of women’s prison writing
Girls in custody
Girls entering the secure estate are a highly vulnerable group, with high levels of trauma and poor mental health.
Too many women sent to prison for short sentences
Prison Reform Trust briefing on why we should focus on reducing the number of women in prison.
Secret criminal trials in urgent need of reform
Charlotte Threipland of APPEAL questions the fairness of the single justice procedure used for more than half a million low level offences a year.
Arresting the entry of women into the criminal justice system
New analysis of police data revealing unnecessary arrests of women.
Girls turning 18 in the CJS fall through the gaps in the system
Girls in the criminal justice system face a cliff-edge as they turn 18 as many services change or drop off all at once and leave young women vulnerable at a critical time in their lives.
Women released from prison face structural disadvantage
HMPPS research finds brief psychological interventions for women in prison are promising, but struggle to make a difference in the face of the structural disadvantages faced on release.
