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What's this got to do with violence against women?
Davina James-Hanman, Director of Ava, explains why our call to 'empower women, resist injustice and transform lives' is of direct relevance to the violence against women sector.
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A life of its own
Laurel Townhead on the future plans for Justice Matters for Women.
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Taking a downsizing agenda for women forward: The challenges
Rejecting criminal justice as the starting point for a conversation about reducing harms for women is destabilising. How can we take this challenging agenda forward?
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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
Helen Mills argues we can't rely on criminal justice to address violence against women.
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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
Rebecca Roberts and Helen Mills ask what downsizing criminal justice could mean for women.
Justice Matters for Women
What is Justice Matters for Women about?
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.
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Is criminal justice a form of violence against women?
Rebecca Roberts highlights the parallels between criminal justice harm and violence against women.