Government disregards welfare of vulnerable women
Charities have warned that the widespread closure of women's refuges will have devastating consequences for women who are victims of domestic violence....
Charities have warned that the widespread closure of women's refuges will have devastating consequences for women who are victims of domestic violence....
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...
Helen wrote about the Justice Matters for Women Event in a previous blog post and mentioned that this event was...
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:
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...
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...
'Taking the most hurt people out of society and punishing them in order to teach them how to live within society is, at best, futile. Whatever else a prisoner knows, she knows
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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.
Rebecca Roberts at the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies writes about the parallels between violence against women and criminal justice punishment.
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...