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The Demeter Foundation, Inc. (TDF)
TDF's mission is advocating and educating for the humane treatment and civil rights of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women in Wisconsin. To reduce recidivism and gain self-empowerment, healing and strength.
The Women's Risk Needs Assessment: Putting Gender at the Forefront of Actuarial Risk Assessment
Summarises the gender-specific risk assessment that was designed specifically for women in the U.S. to bring gender to the foreground of offender rehabilitation.
A Threat to Healing and a Barrier to Recovery: An Assessment of Health Impacts of Criminalization Through the Stages of Domestic Sex Trafficking.
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.
Women in the Criminal Justice System: Briefing Sheets
This series documents the gender implications of changes that have occurred over the last 20 years within the criminal justice system, including expansive law enforcement, stiffer drug sentencing laws and reentry barriers.
National Center for Women & Policing
Promotes increasing the numbers of women at all ranks of law enforcement as a strategy to improve police response to violence against women, reduce police brutality and excessive force, and strengthen community policing reforms.
National Resource Center on Justice-Involved Women
Mission is to provide guidance and support to criminal justice professionals – and to promote evidence-based, gender-responsive policies and practices – in order to reduce the number and improve the outcomes of women involved in the criminal justice…
Women and Girls in the Justice System
This topical resource on women and girls in the justice system contains data and information on funding, programs, publications, and legislation.
Women and the Criminal Justice System
Information about Women and the Criminal Justice System from the ACLU.
Women's Prison Assocation (WPA)
WPA works with women at all stages of criminal justice involvement. They promote alternatives to incarceration and help women living in the community to avoid arrest or incarceration by making positive changes in their lives. Inside prison and jail,…
UN Bangkok Rules on Women Offenders and Prisoners: a short guide
This short illustrated guide to the United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Female Prisoners and Non-Custodial Measures for Women Offenders (the ‘Bangkok Rules’) adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2010 covers the profile of women prisoners and…