Resources about incarcerated and justice involved women, as well as law-related resources for women.
With immigrant rights, trans justice, reproductive freedom, and more at risk, we’re in courts and communities across the country to protect everyone’s rights — and we need you with us.
With immigrant rights, trans justice, reproductive freedom, and more at risk, we’re in courts and communities across the country to protect everyone’s rights — and we need you with us.
Sexual Assault in Canada is the first English-language book in almost two decades to assess the state of sexual assault law and legal practice in Canada.
The contributors to this volume provide insights into women’s rights in seven African countries – Côte d’Ivoire, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa and Uganda. Each looks at the causes, context and consequences of the struggle to uphold women’s rights.
Recovering Identity examines a critical tension in criminalized women’s identity work. Through in-depth qualitative and photo-elicitation interviews, Cesraéa Rumpf shows how formerly incarcerated women engaged recovery and faith-based discourses to craft rehabilitated identities, defined in opposition to past identities as “criminal-addicts.”
In this brief, we provide an overview of gender-responsive programming, share program examples and evidence-based outcomes, and suggest considerations for effectively implementing this type of programming.
The Women’s Justice Commission is a multi-year research, policy development, and communications initiative from the Council on Criminal Justice that documents and raises awareness of the unique challenges facing women in the justice system and builds consensus for evidence-based reforms that enhance safety, health, and justice.
Every mother is wholly focused on reconnecting with her children and ensuring her children’s well-being while she is incarcerated. Yet, the separation of families and the unnecessary estrangement of mothers from their children is rarely discussed outside social worker and legal service provider circles working with this population.
TJLP IS DEEPLY COMMITTED TO:
the universal right of gender self-determination
a long-term goal of abolishing the prison-industrial complex
transformative justice principles as necessary alternatives to the criminal punishment system
Welcome to the International Law and Policy Brief (ILPB), a publication sponsored by The George Washington University Law School’s (GW Law) International Law Society.
This fifth edition of ICPR’s World Female Imprisonment List shows the number of women and girls held in penal institutions in 221 prison systems in independent countries and dependent territories.
Information on incarcerated women.
Provides information that is relevant to all victims and survivors.
Article on the intersection between health law and incarceration of Black women.
Alternative solutions to incarceration.
Book on whether prisons are necessary.
Article on abolition and carceral feminism.
Raising awareness of obstacles women face in the criminal justice system.
Report providing data on female incarceration rates in the US.
Data on female incarceration rates.
A conversation with Angela Davis on prison and police abolition.
A conversation with Angela Davis on abolishing the prison system.
More Aussie women than ever before are finding themselves behind bars, with one reason to blame. Two women reveal shocking insights into life in prison, as well as life afterward, and the shocking trend which has seen more women incarcerated.
Toolkit for understanding and assisting families, communities and organizations for missing or murdered Native women.
A report showing that adults view Black girls as less innocent and more adult-like than their white peers.
The National Women’s Law Center fights for gender justice, working across the issues that are central to the lives of women and girls. We use the law in all its forms to change culture and drive solutions for gender inequity and the barriers that harm all of us—especially women of color, LGBTQ people, and low-income women and families.
A nonprofit focused on reducing racial and gender disparities across the justice continuum affecting Black women, girls, and their families.
Nonprofit feminist organization that promotes the equality rights of women in Canada.
Summarizes findings of the Legal Assessment of Needs Study (“LeAN Study”).
This guide looks at the legislative process as a vital entry point for gender mainstreaming.
Special issue of South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal (SAMAJ) focused on how laws against sedition and free speech are silencing people.
This document analyzes the criminalization of sex trafficking survivors through survivor health and wellbeing across six stages of the trafficking experience, to enable a fuller understanding of the issue––an understanding that centers on survivors.
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