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The Griffins Society Research Listings

Welcome to the Griffins Society Research Archive. This archive contains the findings of research from over 30 years of research by criminal justice practitioners into the treatment of women and girls in criminal justice, supported by the charity, The Griffins Society.

 
 

About The Griffins Society

The Griffins Society closed its doors in 2024, but was a national charity, dedicated to sponsoring indicative research into the treatment of women and girls in criminal justice. Why just women? Put simply, because equality of treatment does not ensure equality of outcomes. The society championed the importance of gender-specific responses in a system still predominantly designed for dealing with male offenders. They adopted a bottom-up approach, encouraging practitioners working with women to apply to the society for support to undertake small scale research projects on issues they had identified from the front-line. The research sponsored was also predominantly qualitative rather than quantitative, in order to give a voice to the women themselves - a voice that is still too often absent. Although small scale, these research findings were often timely and indicative - shining a light on practice and policy and serving as a catalyst for change.

 
 
 
 
Research by subject
  • All
  • Art/Culture
  • Attachment Theory
  • Breach/Recall
  • Compliance
  • Desistance
  • Domestic Violence
  • Drugs/Addiction
  • Education
  • Employment
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Gangs
  • Gender specific
  • Health/Mental health
  • Homelessness/Accommodation
  • Mother and baby units
  • Motherhood
  • Older women
  • Parole
  • Probation
  • Relationships
  • Resettlement
  • Restorative justice
  • Rural
  • Sentencing
  • Sex worker/Sex working
  • Volunteering
  • Young women
'Hell hath no fury..?' Experiences of women convicted of violence

Authors: Rachel Reed
Published: 2024

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All, Probation, Relationships, Gender specificRichard Rowley7 December 2024
'No one will want to be my friend because I am a murderer'

Authors: Sophie Crilly & Nujoji Calvocoressi
Published: 2024

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All, Compliance, Desistance, Relationships, Health/Mental healthRichard Rowley28 November 2024
'What, if anything, might be utilised from different models of trauma-informed practice in providing legal support to women affected by the CJS?'

Authors: Becky Fédia
Published: 2024

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All, Compliance, Desistance, Gender specific, Probation, Relationships, SentencingRichard Rowley27 November 2024
A Paradoxical Paradox: Exploring Probation staff attitudes towards working with women

Authors: Claire Rushton & Claire Morley
Published: 2024

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All, ProbationRichard Rowley27 November 2024
Motherhood Arrested: Reflections from birth mothers and practitioners in the criminal justice system

Authors: Susie Bateson (née Cox)
Published: 2024

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All, Motherhood, RelationshipsRichard Rowley27 November 2024
Time to listen

Author: Eleanor Ward
Published: 2024

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All, Gangs, Young womenRichard Rowley26 November 2024
“They’re your responsibility, you should have thought of that before you committed the crime”: How women with caring responsibilities experience the criminal court system

Authors: Lucy Slade
Published: 2024

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All, Sentencing, Gender specific, Mother and baby unitsRichard Rowley25 November 2024
A suspect population: An examination of bail decision making for foreign national women in criminal courts in England and Wales

Authors: May Robson
Published: 2022

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All, Sentencing, Resettlement, Ethnic minoritiesRichard Rowley24 November 2024
Exploring Shame Resilience Theory (SRT) and its potential for understanding how shame affects the behaviours of women with lived experience of imprisonment

Authors: Sandra Barefoot & Ruth Chitty
Published: 2022

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All, Compliance, Desistance, Relationships, Health/Mental healthRichard Rowley23 November 2024
Just no future at the moment: Examining the barriers to community resettlement for foreign national women

Authors: Sophia Benedict
Published: 2020

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All, Resettlement, Homelessness/Accommodation, Ethnic minorities, Health/Mental healthRichard Rowley22 November 2024
Righting Wrongs: What are the barriers faced by women seeking to overturn unsafe convictions or unfair sentences in the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)?

Authors: Naima Sakande
Published: 2020

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All, Sentencing, Health/Mental healthRichard Rowley21 November 2024
A Sense of Place: a study of accessing housing for women exiting custody - housing first not housing last

Authors: Tracey McMahon
Published: 2019

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All, Relationships, Resettlement, Homelessness/AccommodationRichard Rowley20 November 2024
Outnumbered, locked up and overlooked? The use of penal custody for girls in England & Wales

Authors: Pippa Goodfellow
Published: 2019

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All, Gender specific, Resettlement, Young women, SentencingRichard Rowley19 November 2024
Survived...but at what cost? A study of women in the criminal justice system who experienced domestic abuse, and the potential for change

Authors: Geraldine McGuigan and Ruth Walker
Published: 2019

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All, Domestic Violence, Resettlement, Rural, Health/Mental healthRichard Rowley18 November 2024
Too many bends in the tunnel? Women serving Indeterminate Sentences of IPP - what are the barriers to risk reduction, release and resettlement?

Authors: Sarah Smart
Published: 2019

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All, Resettlement, Sentencing, Parole, Health/Mental healthRichard Rowley17 November 2024
Exploring the impact of the Housing (Wales) Act 2014 on women involved in the criminal justice system

Authors: Alice Moore
Published: 2018

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All, Resettlement, Rural, Homelessness/AccommodationRichard Rowley16 November 2024
Lost Spaces: Is the current procedure for women prisoners to gain a place in a prison MBU fair and accessible?

Authors: Maya Sikand
Published: 2017

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All, Gender specific, Mother and baby units, Sentencing, Attachment Theory, Health/Mental healthRichard Rowley15 November 2024
Resettlement experiences of street sex-working women on release from prison

Authors: Hazel Renouf
Published: 2017

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All, Resettlement, Homelessness/Accommodation, Drugs/Addiction, Sex worker/Sex workingRichard Rowley14 November 2024
Losing my voice: A study of the barriers and facilitators to disclosure for sex-working women in residential drug treatment

Authors: Kirsty Tate
Published: 2016

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All, Relationships, Drugs/Addiction, Sex worker/Sex workingRichard Rowley13 November 2024
Prison as a place of safety for women with complex mental health needs

Authors: Tamara Pattinson
Published: 2016

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All, Sentencing, Health/Mental healthRichard Rowley12 November 2024
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