Rape on Trial
How does the criminal justice system respond to rape and serious sexual offence cases?
Judge for yourself.
Join Dr Candida Saunders inside the criminal justice system so you can see how it works in practice in these cases, and how it doesn't.
Rape on Trial gives us a front-row seat in court, prosecutors' offices, and police investigations. What we see challenges everything we think we know about the investigation and prosecution of rape and serious sexual offences in the contemporary criminal process.
No spin. No sensationalism. No slogans.
Real cases. Real trials. Real outcomes.
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1. Tariq's Trial part 1
2. Tariq's Trial part 2
3. Jerome's Trial part 1
4. Jerome's Trial part 2
5. Dean's Trial part 1
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About the Host
Legal academic / Author / Creator and Host of Criminal Justice in Action
A legal scholar specialising in criminal law and procedure, Candida spent two decades researching and teaching at the University of Nottingham. Her academic work focuses on how the criminal justice system operates in practice, particularly in rape and sexual assault cases, and those involving vulnerable witnesses. She has conducted extensive empirical research, including interviews with police officers and Crown Prosecutors about their decision-making, detailed analysis of case files, and first-hand observation of criminal trials in the Crown Courts.
Her research has been funded by bodies including the Nuffield Foundation and the Economic Social and Research Council, and has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals such as the Criminal Law Review, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, International Journal of Evidence & Proof, and British Journal of Criminology.
In Rape on Trial, Candida draws on this research so we can see for ourselves how the criminal justice system really operates in the investigation and prosecution of rape and serious sexual offences. Not what we assume happens. Not what the conventional wisdom tells us happens. But what the evidence actually shows.
Every claim is grounded in data. Every episode is informed by rigorous academic inquiry.