Women and crime

Overseas and international resources

• Canada
• New Zealand
• United Kingdom
• United States
• International

Canada

• Canadian Association of Sexual Assault Centres
• Family violence in Canada : a statistical profile
  Statistics Canada
• FREDA Centre for Research on Violence against Women and Children
  Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia
• METRAC
  Metropolitan Action Committee on Violence Against Women and Children
• National Clearinghouse on Family Violence
  Public Health Agency of Canada
• Safer futures
  Cowichan Women Against Violence Society
• Women's safety : from dependence to autonomy : tool kit (PDF 854kB)
  CAFSU/Women in Cities International, 2002

New Zealand

• New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse
• Preventing Violence in the Home, Auckland
• Rape Crisis Auckland

United Kingdom

• Children and Women Abuse Studies Unit
  London Metropolitan University
• Domestic violence mini-site
  Crime Reduction
• Domestic violence
  Home Office
• Violence against women initiative
  Home Office crime reduction programme
• Zero Tolerance Charitable Trust
  An Independent Charity which campaigns for the prevention of male violence against women and children

United States

• Division of Women and Crime
  American Society of Criminology
• End violence against women
  Center for Communication Programs, John Hopkins University
• Domestic violence
  National Criminal Justice Reference Service
• Female offenders
  National Criminal Justice Reference Service
• In the spotlight : Family violence
  National Criminal Justice Reference Service
• In the spotlight : Women and girls in the criminal justice system
  National Criminal Justice Reference Service
• Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma
  Alliant International University
• National Sexual Violence Resource Center
  A project of the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape
• Office on Violence Against Women
  Department of Justice
• Stop violence against women
  Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights
• VAWNet : National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women
  A project of the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence and the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence
• Violence against women and family violence program
  National Institute of Justice
• Violence and Victimization Research Division's compendium of research on violence against women, 1993-2004 (PDF 890kB)
  Leora N Rosen and Jocelyn Fontaine. National Institute of Justice (US), Office of Research and Evaluation, 2005
• Ending violence against women (PDF 1.11MB)
  Lori Heise, Mary Ellsberg and Megan Gottemoeller. Center for Communication Programs, John Hopkins University, 1999

International

• European Campaign Against Domestic Violence
  The Council of Europe
• Gender based violence
  World Health Organization
• International Violence Against Women Survey
  European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control, affiliated with the United Nations (HEUNI)
• Violence against women
  United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
• Women's safety awards
  Women in Cities International
• Developing trust : international approaches to women's safety (PDF 420kB)
  Margaret Shaw and Laura Capobianco. International Center for the Prevention of Crime, 2004
• Not a minute more : ending violence against women (PDF 889kB)
  Gloria Jacobs (ed.) United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2003
• Model strategies and practical measures on the elimination of violence against women in the field of crime prevention and criminal justice (PDF 1.44MB)
  International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy, 1999
• Violence against women in urban areas : an analysis of the problem from a gender perspective (PDF 240kB)
  Soraya Smaoun. United Nations Centre for Human Settlements, 1999