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Violence against women: Changing the prescription
Jane Martinson, writing about her time as Women’s Editor at The Guardian,...
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Putting women in their place
Bea Campbell, in the final pages of her recent book, The End of Equality,...
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Little to lose, much to gain
There is a growing sense of frustration and sadness amongst practitioners and campaigners at the economic and political situation we now find ourselves in. Many of the gains in gender equality,...
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A life of its own
Helen wrote about the Justice Matters for Women Event in a previous blog post and mentioned that this event was...
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Talking about unimaginable things to make them visible
'Dauntingly good',
was the description Laurel Townhead at Women in Prison, who is working...
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Mitigating the harms of criminal justice
The previous post in this series highlighted the potential conflict between focussing...
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Taking a downsizing agenda for women forward: The challenges
Previous posts in this series have identified various limitations of the criminal justice system for women in keeping with the Centre’s analysis that:
- Current responses to ...
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Is Lady Justice blind or just blinkered?
Most people will be familiar with ‘Lady Justice’ – a statue or picture of a woman often blindfolded, holding a set of scales. Lady Justice is intended to represent objectivity...
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Addressing violence against women beyond criminal justice
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...
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Punishing women and criminal justice failure
Laurel Townhead and Rebecca Roberts highlight the systemic failings of criminal justice in responding to criminalised women.
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Criminal justice and reducing the harms women face - lifting the lid on Pandora’s box
Prime Minister David Cameron was recently questioned by the House of Common’s Liaison Committee on the...
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Is criminal justice a form of violence against women?
Today is the UN’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. The purpose of the day is to combat and raise awareness of violence against women.
The...