'Dauntingly good',
was the description Laurel Townhead at Women in Prison, who is working...
Previous posts in this series have identified various limitations of the criminal justice system for women in keeping with the Centre’s analysis that:
What would you do if he hit you?
Asked the midwife at an antenatal check up. I won’t go into what I said exactly, but the midwife picked up on what I didn’t say...
Prime Minister David Cameron was recently questioned by the House of Common’s Liaison Committee on the...
Criminal justice fails women.
Current responses to criminalised women are seriously flawed and harmful to women. Prioritising the criminal justice system in our response to violence against women has undermined the development of more effective ways to address the harms women face.
As a qualitative researcher I’m often quick to point out the limits of interpreting the world through numbers. However, having worked on...
