Summary
This 2007 report made a series of recommendations to improve the particular vulnerabilities of women in the criminal justice system in the UK. It looks at a variety of issues, such as the effectiveness of the Ministry of Justice's strategy for women offenders and at risk of offending; the extent to which work to address the multiple and complex needs of women offenders is integrated across Government; foreign women offenders; the suitability of women's custodial estates and prison regimes; the availability of appropriate provision for different groups of women offenders, including: under 18s, women with children, foreign nationals and black, asian, and minority ethnic women, and those with mental health problems.
The report was followed up in 2013, in the report Women Offenders: After the Corston Report.