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AANBEVELINGEN VOOR OUDERSCHAP IN DETENTIEHUIZEN; MOEDER-KINDHUIZEN
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Scottish Prisons Assessment and Review of Outcomes for Women(SPAROW)
This report presents findings from the Scottish Prison Service Assessment and Review of Outcomes for Women (SPAROW) evaluation, commissioned by the Scottish Government Justice Analytical Services. The primary purpose was to evaluate the early impact and emerging outcome…
Trauma as a lingua franca: Expansionist reforms and female imprisonment in Ireland
Promising Practices to Reduce the Harmful Impact of Imprisonment on Women
Side Event at the 2025 Commission on the Status of Women on the harmful impact of imprisonment on women, addressing the link with poverty and the scale of the problem but also innovative solutions that Member States can adopt.
Breaking out of theJustice Loop:
Breaking out of the Justice Loop: Creating a criminal justice system that works for women, by Naomi Delap (Director, Birth Companions) and Liz Hogarth (Independent women’s justice expert), examines why the justice system continues to fail women, and what needs to chan…
‘Exceptional’ Open Prisons Under Pressure:Austerity, Instability and Distrust
This article examines the impact of various challenges on two Norwegian low-security prisons, Bastøy and Leira, during a particularly demanding period. Using ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interviews with 51 prisoners, the article applies the conceptual metaphors …
Prison Service Journal (No 277) March 2025
This special edition of Prison Service Journal focusses on the issues of women, criminalisation and the need for differential approaches that recognise the part that gender plays in women’s pathways into the criminal justice system.
From poverty to punishment
From Poverty to punishment: Examining laws and practices which criminalise women due to poverty or status worldwide exposes how laws and policies disproportionately criminalise women due to their socio-economic status and vulnerabilities. Published by Penal Reform Inter…
Advisory report on Incarcerated women in focus
On February 20, 2025, the Advisory Division of the Council for the Administration of Criminal Justice and Protection of Juveniles (hereinafter referred to as ‘the RSJ’) issued an advisory report on its own initiative on women in secure custodial settings. Considering th…
PRISON MATTERS: Global prison population and trends
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