Publications
The following publications from the project are all open access (free to view)
- Painful lives: Understanding self-harm amongst care-experienced women in prison
- A Difficult Balance: Challenges and Possibilities for Local Protocols to Reduce Unnecessary Criminalisation of Children in Care and Care Leavers
- Confronting intergenerational harm: Care experience, motherhood and criminal justice involvement
- ‘We Need to Tackle Their Well Being First’: Understanding and Supporting Care-Experienced Girls in the Youth Justice System
- Supporting girls in care to desist from offending behaviour
- The exploitation of girls in care: An ongoing struggle for recognition
- Power in the courtroom: Judicial perspectives on care-experienced girls and women in court
Final Project Report – May 2022
Our final project report is now available, along with an executive summary and policy briefing. Please use the links below to download:
- Disrupting the Routes Between Care and Custody for Girls and Women: Final Report (PDF, 1642KB)
- Disrupting the Routes Between Care and Custody for Girls and Women: Executive Summary (PDF, 1126KB)
- Disrupting the Routes Between Care and Custody for Girls and Women: Policy Briefing (PDF, 820KB)
A single-page fact sheet is also available:
Literature Review – October 2019
Our project Literature Review is now available. Please feel free to download by clicking the link below. A short summary is also available.