Reports on women and criminal justice

The Griffins Society offers visiting research fellowships each year to explore issues relating to the treatment of women in the criminal justice system. Research reports by previous Research Fellows are here:

www.thegriffinssociety.org/research.html

Commission on Women Offenders

Scottish Government, 2012

No Way Out: A briefing paper on foreign national women in prison in England and Wales

Prison Reform Trust, 2012

Breaking the cycle of women’s offending: a system re-design: A report of the Task & Finish Group
Reducing Reoffending Third Sector Advisory Group (RR3), 2012

Empty Cells or Empty Words? Government policy on reducing the number of women going to prison

Professor Carol Hedderman for the Criminal Justice Alliance, 2012

Women in Prison: Corston five years on

Nick Hardwick, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons

University of Sussex, Issues in Criminal Justice, February 2012

Reforming Women’s Justice: Final report of the Women’s Justice Taskforce

Prison Reform Trust, 2011

Women in the penal system: Second report on women with particular vulnerabilities in the criminal justice system

Howard League for Penal Reform, 2011

The Treatment of Mothers with Babies in Prison: HMP Eastwood Park Mother and Baby Unit

Penal Reform International, 2010

Realising rights: increasing ethnic minority women's access to justice

Fawcett Society, 2010

Engendering Justice - from policy to practice

Fawcett Society, 2009

Unlocking Value: How we all benefit from investing in alternatives to prison for women offenders

New Economics Foundation, 2008

Dying on the inside: examining women’s deaths in prison

INQUEST, 2008

(Go to publications page to download free summary)

Provision for women offenders in the community

Fawcett Society, 2007

(Includes a directory of services)

REPORTS ON WOMEN & CRIMINAL JUSTICE