Meeting Bulletin #3: January 2025
For its third convening, the Women’s Justice Commission gathered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and focused on women’s needs, experiences, and outcomes as they move through the criminal court system pretrial.
For its third convening, the Women’s Justice Commission gathered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and focused on women’s needs, experiences, and outcomes as they move through the criminal court system pretrial.
On October 23, 2024, the Council on Criminal Justice hosted a live webinar on domestic violence and women’s justice involvement with experts from CCJ’s Women’s Justice Commission (WJC) and Crime Trends Working Group (CTWG).
During its second meeting, the commission examined policing as a possible intervention point for justice-involved women, focusing on the efficacy of law enforcement responses to women in crises.
Coinciding with the public launch of the Women’s Justice Commission, the commission’s first meeting focused on exploring women’s pathways into the criminal justice system.
This assessment reviews existing research about women’s pathways into the system and the challenges they face from arrest through reentry.
This series of charts presents a portrait of women in the criminal justice system, highlighting trends in victimization, arrest rates, breakdown of offenses, sentence length, incarcerated populations, recidivism, racial disparities, and more.