Policy & Research
CWJ Guides, Research and Submissions
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CWJ submission to the Ministry of Justice murder sentencing consultation - March 2024
Police Perpetrated Domestic Abuse: Has anything really changed since the 2020 super-complaint (full report) - September 2024Police Perpetrated Domestic Abuse: Has anything really changed since the 2020 super-complaint (executive summary) - September 2024
CWJ submission to Sentencing Council consultation on the ‘Imposition of community and custodial sentences guideline’ - February 2024CWJ submission to Sentencing Council consultation on Miscellaneous Amendments to Sentencing Guidelines - February 2024
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Shadow Report on the Istanbul Convention, VAWG Sector England and Wales - December 2023
Life or Death? Preventing Domestic Homicides and Suicides of Black and Minoritised Women (full report) - November 2023
Life or Death? Preventing Domestic Homicides and Suicides of Black and Minoritised Women (executive summary) - November 2023A Whole-Society Approach to ending Violence against Women and Girls: VAWG Sector Manifesto - September 2023
Submission to the Joint Committee on Human Rights’ Call for Evidence on the Victims and Prisoners’ Bill - July 2023
Making self-defence accessible to victims of domestic abuse who use force against their abuser: Learning from reforms in Canada, New Zealand and Australia - July 2023
What’s Changed? Government’s ‘End-to-End’ Rape Review - Two Years On (A report by Centre for Women’s Justice, the End Violence Against Women Coalition, Imkaan and Rape Crisis England and Wales) - June 2023
CWJ response to the Home Office’s Review on the Process of Police Officer Dismissals: Comments on Existing Discipline and Performance Systems - Feb 2023
CWJ Angiolini Inquiry Consultation Response - Feb 2023 -
CWJ evidence submission to Women and Equalities Committee inquiry on Honour Based Violence - Dec 2022
CWJ evidence submission to Home Affairs Committee inquiry into policing priorities - Oct 2022
Women’s Rights are Human Rights: What the Bill of Rights will mean for ending violence against women and girls (joint report with EVAW, Rights of Women, CWJ and Southall Black Sisters) - Sept 2022
CWJ submission to the Home Office’s Consultation on Police Requests for Third Party Material - August 2022
Children Conceived in rape: A rapid evidence review for the Centre for Women’s Justice - July 2022
CWJ Briefing on Daisy's Law Victims of Rape Conception - July 2022
No safe space: Lessons for national policy and local practice from the West Midlands multi-agency response to women involved in offending or alleged offending who are victims of domestic abuse - July 2022
9 NGOs’ Response to the Consultation on The Extraction of Information from Electronic Devices Code of Practice [The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022] - July 2022
CWJ briefing on police perpetrated abuse super-complaint outcome - June 2022
CWJ submission to Sentencing Council consultation on Perverting the Course of Justice and Witness Intimidation Guidelines - June 22
CWJ submission on independent legal advice and representation for rape survivors - June 2022
CWJ submission to consultation on CPS Domestic Abuse Legal Guidance - June 2022
CWJ submission to consultation on revised HomeOffice Statutory Guidance Framework on Controlling or Coercive Behaviour - June 2022
Double Standard: Ending the Unjust Criminalisation of Victims of Violence Against Women and Girls - March 2022
Double Standard: Ending the Unjust Criminalisation of Victims of Violence Against Women and Girls (Executive Summary) - March 2022
CWJ consultation submission on proposals to reform the Human Rights Act 1998 - Mar 2022
CWJ submission to the Prisons Strategy White Paper consultation - Feb 2022
CWJ’s submission to Victims’ Bill consultation - Feb 2022 -
Letter to Home Secretary regarding the Inquiry into issues arising from the conviction of Wayne Couzens - Dec 2021
CWJ briefing – response to super- complaint report on police use of protective measures - August 2021
CWJ submission on third party disclosure in rape investigations - June 2021
Women Who Kill: How the State Criminalises Women we Might Otherwise be Burying - February 2021
Women Who Kill: How the State Criminalises Women we Might Otherwise be Burying (executive summary) - February 2021
Submission to Home Office Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy : Section 1 - 3 - February 2021
Submission to Home Office Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy : Section 4 - ending the unjust criminalisation of survivors of domestic abuse and other forms of VAWG - February 2021
Submission on a femicide post-death investigations oversight mechanism - February 2021
Detailed submission on non-fatal strangulation for Domestic Abuse Bill - January 2021 -
The Decriminalisation of Rape: Why the justice system is failing rape survivors and what needs to change (EVAW, CWJ, RAPE CRISIS E&W & IMKAAN) - November 2020
Inquiry into Institutional Responses to the Sexual Exploitation of Children by Organised Networks - Written Closing Submissions by the Centre for Women’s Justice - November 2020
Outline briefing on non-fatal strangulation for Domestic Abuse Bill - October 2020
Outline briefing on pre-charge bail for Domestic Abuse Bill - May 2020
Detailed submission on pre-charge bail for Domestic Abuse Bill Parliamentary Committtee - May 2020
Super-complaint: Failure to address police perpetrated domestic abuse (Annex 2 - FOI data can be viewed here) - March 2020 -
Research and Reports
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2022
Dame Vera Baird QC
Annual Report of the Victims’ Commissioner 2021-2022
June 2022
Women’s Aid
The Domestic Abuse Report 2022: The Annual Audit
March 2022
Femicide Census
Femicide Report 2020
February 2022
Femicide Census
Femicide Report 2019
February 2022
2023
Women’s Budget Group
Gender Gaps in Access to Civil Legal Justice
July 2023
Women’s Aid
The Domestic Abuse Report 2023: The Annual Audit
January 2023 -
2019
Crown Prosecution Service
Violence Against Women and Girls Report 2018 - 2019
September 2019
End Violence Against Women Coalition
Do Police and Crime Commissioners work for women and girls?
July 2019
Women and Equalities Committee
The use of non-disclosure agreements in discrimination cases
June 2019
Inquest
Still Dying on the Inside Update
June 2019
Women’s Aid
The Domestic Abuse Report 2019: The Annual Audit
March 2019
O. Smith, E. Daly, C. Herriott - Anglia Ruskin Uni
The Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme & Sexual Offences
January 2019
2020
Women’s Aid
The Domestic Abuse Report 2020: The Annual Audit
March 2020
Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service
Guidance on non-disclosure agreements
February 2020
Malcolm Newsam CBE and Gary Ridgway
Independent assurance review of the effectiveness of multi-agency responses to child sexual exploitation in Greater Manchester
January 2020
2021
Inspection by HMICFRS
Police response to violence against women and girls – Final inspection report
September 2021
Joint Inspection by HMICFRS and HMCPSI
A joint thematic inspection of the police and Crown Prosecution Service’s response to rape – Phase one: From report to police or CPS decision to take no further action
July 2021
Women’s Aid
The Domestic Abuse Report 2021: The Annual Audit
Jan 2021 -
2016
Women’s Aid and Karen Ingala Smith
Femicide Census: Redefining an Isolated Incident
December 2016
HMIC
National Child Protection
Inspections: Metropolitan Police Service 1 February – 27 May 2016
November 2016
Imkaan
Capital Losses: the State of the Specialist BME Ending Violence Against Women and Girls sector in London
2016
2017
Joint Inspection by HMIC and HMCPSI
Living in fear – the police and CPS response to harassment and stalking
July 2017
Eaves and NIA
“I’m no criminal”: Examining the impact of prostitution-specific criminal records on women seeking to exit prostitution
May 2017
Crown Prosecution Service
Tenth Annual Violence Against Women and Girls Report 2016-2017
2016/2017
Gemma Lousley and Sarah Cope
We are still here: the continued detention of women seeking asylum in Yarl’s Wood
2016/2017
End Violence Against Women Coalition and Southall Black Sisters
Violence against women and girls: Protecting women’s human rights and holding the state to account
2017
2018
Agenda
Women in Crisis: How women and girls are being failed by the Mental Health Act.
August 2018
The Women’s Budget Group
The Female Face of Poverty: Examining the causes and consequences of economic deprivation for women
July 2018
House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee
Sexual harassment in the workplace: Fifth Report of Session 2017–19
July 2018
Refuge and Warwick Law School
Domestic abuse and suicide
July 2018
Inquest
Still Dying on the Inside: Examining Deaths in Women’s Prisons
May 2018
Office of the Children’s Commissioner
Voices from the Inside: The experiences of girls in Secure Training Centres
March 2018
Women’s Aid
Survival and Beyond: The Domestic Abuse Report 2017
2018
The Women’s Resource Centre
Hearing women’s voices: Why women 2018
2018 -
2008
HMCS, Home Office and Crown Prosecution Service
Specialist Domestic Violence Courts Review 2007-08: Justice with Safety
March 2008
2011
Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit, London Metropolitan University
Islands in the Stream: an evaluation of independent domestic violence advocacy scheme
January 2011
2012
Professor Sylvia Walby
Measuring the Impact of Cuts in Public Expenditure on the Provision of Services to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls
January 2012
2013
Office of the Children’s Commissioner
“If only someone had listened”: Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation in Gangs and Groups
November 2013
Alison Levitt QC and Crown Prosecution Service Equality and Diversity Unit
Charging Perverting the Course of Justice and Wasting Police Time in Cases Involving Allegedly False Rape and Domestic Violence Allegations
March 2013
2014
HMIC
Everyone’s business: Improving the police response to domestic abuse
2014
2015
UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, its Causes and Consequences, Rashida Manjoo
Report on her mission to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
May 2015
Rt Hon Dame Elish Angiolini DBE QC
Report of the Independent Review into the Investigation and Prosecution of Rape in London
April 2015
Baring Foundation
An Independent Mission: The Voluntary Sector in 2015
February 2015
Joint Committee on Human Rights
Violence Against Women and Girls: Sixth Report of Session 2014-15
February 2015
Literature
Women Violence and Male Power by Marianne Hester, Liz Kelly and Jill Radford.
Women Violence and Strategies for Action, Jill Radford, Malissa Friedberg and Lynne Harne
In an Abusive State: How Neoliberalism appropriated the feminist movement against sexual violence, Kristen Bumiller
Women, violence and social change, Dobash and Dobash
Women, Violence and Male Power, Mary Maynard and Jan Winn
Mothers on Trial, Phyllis Chesler
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July 2016
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Sex-differences and ‘domestic violence murders‘
March 2015