Why are victims of rape and serious sexual assault highly unlikely to receive justice?

It's clear that they are failed by the criminal justice system, but are the reasons we assume for that failing dictated by fact or fiction?

The research we are looking at in this episode is called "Rape Trials: Bridging the Gap Between Myth and Reality" by Dr. Candida Saunders. It was published in Criminal Law Review in 2025.

Dr Saunders Podcast is Rape on Trial. https://www.criminaljusticeinaction.com/

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However disturbing the thought online grooming of children and young people is, we reconcile ourselves that we know at least how these predators behave.

They’ll manner their interactions down to a victim’s level.

They’ll use age-appropriate language to seem accessible.

They’ll draw upon the power dynamic of age.

Right?

Through a new piece of research by Beata Pienczykowski & Pauline Madella called "I was so Afraid All You Wanted from Me Was Sex’: A Corpus Assisted Study in the Pragmatics of Manipulation in Online Child Sexual Groomers" we see how online perpetrators flip this script entirely.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41701-025-00218-0

How victims are manipulated to believe they are the ones with all the power and that what is abuse, is in fact a relationship of equals.

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The subject of mental health and suicide is belatedly moving from the shadows into the public conversation.

Within policing - a service which by definition is exposes those within it to the extremes of human experience - do the provisions exist to provide adequate support to officers and staff? Do Forces even have aware of the unique risks it's employees are exposed? Do the official statistics even tell an accurate story?

The research we are looking at in this episode is called Lives on the Line of Duty: Preventing Suicide Among Police Officers and Staff by Marina Hasan and Lewis Leeming from Leeds Trinity University. It was published in International Journal of Criminology and Policing Education

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.70386/ijcpe.v1i1.27

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