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What actually happens to rape cases in the criminal justice system?Presented by Dr Candida Saunders, a legal scholar specialising in criminal law and evidence, Rape on Trial draws on police and prosecution case files, professionals' insights, and trial observations in real life cases to examine the investigation and prosecution of rape and serious sexual offences in England & Wales in practice.By looking closely at each stage, at cases that do and don’t make it through the criminal process, we see how decisions are made--how evidence is weighed and assessed, thresholds applied, how cases are...

On a moonless night in the summer of 1793 a crime was committed in the back room of a New York brothel—the kind of crime that even victims usually kept secret. Instead, seventeen-year-old seamstress Lanah Sawyer did what virtually no one in US history had done before: she charged a gentleman with rape. Her accusation sparked a raw courtroom drama and a relentless struggle for vindication that threatened both Lanah’s and her assailant’s lives.