In 2000, England and Wales had 17.9 men in prison per woman in prison. Major justice policy reports since 2000 have focused on women in prison. These reports have advocated policies to lessen the number of women in prison without advocating policies to reduce the number of men in prison proportionally or more than proportionally. These reports include:
- Justice for Women: The Need for Reform. Dorothy Wedderburn, Prison Reform Trust (2000)
- Fawcett Commission on Women and the Criminal Justice System (established in 2003)
- Interim Report on Women and Offending (2003)
- Report of the Commission on Women and the Criminal Justice system (2004)
- One Year On Report of the Commission on Women and the Criminal Justice system (2005)
- Justice and Equality: the Second Annual Review of the Commission on Women and the Criminal Justice system (2006)
- Women and Justice: the Third Annual Review of the Commission on Women and the Criminal Justice system (2007)
- Engendering Justice – from policy to practice: Final report of the Commission on Women and the Criminal Justice System (2009)
- The Sinners and the Sinned Against: Women in the Criminal Justice System, Baroness Brenda Hale, Fourth Longford Lecture (2005)
- A report by Baroness Jean Corston; A review of women with Particular Vulnerabilities in the Criminal Justice System (the Corston Report to the UK Home Office) (2007)
- SmartJustice for Women Campaign (established in 2005)
- Public Say: Stop Locking Up So Many Women, Sinead Hanks, SmartJustice (2007)
- Reforming Women’s Justice: Final report of the Women’s Justice Taskforce, Prison Reform Trust (2011)
- Women in the Penal System, Second report on women with particular vulnerabilities in the criminal justice system, by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Women in the Penal System Chaired by Baroness Corston (2011)
The pervasive gender protrusion in imprisonment and prevalent criminal suspicion of men has attracted relatively little public concern.