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Women represent one in every five offenders, and only 5.4% of the incarcerated population. From the bigger perspective of crime and justice, women’s issues are not as relevant as men’s issues.
Consequently, there is little research and resources put toward understanding women and conflict with the law. In response to this reality, we collect and share the most up-to-date and relevant research and resource publications, as well as information about us.
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Health & Trauma Research
Traumatic Brain Injury and Incarceration, 2016
Doing Health, Undoing Prison, 2016
Focus on Harm Reduction for Injection Drug Use in Canadian Prisons, 2016
Experience of Criminalized Women Accessing Health Care…, 2015
Mental Health in Federal Corrections, 2014
Female Offenders and Self Harm, 2013
Health of Incarcerated Women in BC, 2012
Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading, 2012
Women-Centre Harm Reduction, 2010
Women’s Issues
Reproductive (In)Justice in Canadian Federal Prisons for Women, 2021
Moms in Prison: The Impact of Maternal Incarceration on Women and Children, 2020
Supporting Children with Incarcerated Parents, 2018
Canadian Women in Prison: A Racial and Gendered Analysis, 2015
Housing Needs Assessment, 2014
Canada’s Mother Child Program, 2014
In the Best Interest of the Child, 2014
Policies Matter: Addressing Violence Against Women, 2013
Why are Women Canada’s Fastest Growing Prison Population? 2011
Research with Women Serving Court-Mandated Probation or Parole, 2009
Criminal Justice System
Starting With Life: Murder Sentencing and Feminist Prison Abolitionist Praxis, 2021
Rising Incarceration Rates of Racialized Women, 2018
Office of the Correctional Investigator, Annual Report, 2018
Corrections in Ontario: Directions for Reform, 2017
Aboriginal Women and the Canadian Justice System, 2016
Building Bridges: Experiential and Integrative Learning in Women’s Prison, 2016
Female Offenders in Canada – Stats Canada, 2016
Canadian Women in Prison, 2015
Crisis in Correctional Services, 2015
Policies – Policy Research
The Failure of Creating Choices, 2022
Rising Incarceration Rates of Racialized Women, 2018
The Chronic Failure to Control Prisoner Isolation in US and Canadian Law, 2015
False Promises, Hidden Costs, 2014
Help Wanted: Reducing Barriers for Ontario’s Youth with Police Records, 2014
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The goal of the anti-human trafficking project, funded by City of Toronto, was to develop and test a psycho-educational resource handbook for counsellors working with victims of sex trafficking. The handbook focuses on specific information regarding counselling interventions for trafficked victims that would improve their healing and emotional well-being.
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