A call to ALL women
There is a growing commitment within a group of critical criminologists at Manchester Metropolitan University, to recognising, exposing, analysing and campaigning around social injustice and...
There is a growing commitment within a group of critical criminologists at Manchester Metropolitan University, to recognising, exposing, analysing and campaigning around social injustice and...
Sign ups to our Empower Women, resist injustice and transform lives call to action reached one hundred today. The
So why are people signing up?...
My current mantra when training professionals in responding to domestic and sexual violence is ‘if you think a client is ‘difficult’, ‘hostile’ or to use the standard...
The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, in collaboration with Women in Prison, has issued a call to action to: Empower women, resist injustice and...
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,...
During March we held two really interesting and challenging Justice Matters events.
On Monday, 24th March we held the 'Justice Matters partners' event, focusing on the initiative as a whole...
Helen wrote about the Justice Matters for Women Event in a previous blog post and mentioned that this event was...
'Dauntingly good',
was the description Laurel Townhead at Women in Prison, who is working...
A critical report by HM Inspectorate of Constabulary says that victims of domestic violence faced a 'lottery' in the way they are treated. Theresa May, Home Secretary, has called for a 'radical change', saying that she would chair a group to consider the findings of the report,...
The previous post in this series highlighted the potential conflict between focussing...
A report from the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) presents findings from the world’s biggest-ever survey on violence against women, revealing the extent of abuse suffered by women at home, work, in public and online. As well as demonstrating the wide prevalence of violence...
Previous posts in this series have identified various limitations of the criminal justice system for women in keeping with the Centre’s analysis that: