Nellie’s has launched a position paper on women who have been criminalized. Too often, women are criminalized for activities they regard as necessary to their economic survival or for the ways they choose to cope with the trauma they experienced. This in turn further traumatizes women who are survivors of violence.

The positions in this paper will act as a guide for Nellie’s advocacy work and inform our services to better support women who have been criminalized or who have experienced trauma after having had encounters with police, the court system, jails and prisons.

Click here to read our Position Paper on Women & Criminalization