Candida Saunders, LLB, LLM, MA, PhD is a legal scholar specialising in criminal law and procedure. Her work examines how the criminal justice system in England & Wales operates in practice. She has conducted extensive research into the investigation and prosecution of rape and serious sexual offences, cutting through orthodox theories and narratives to reveal both the principled objectives and the practical realities of the criminal process.
Her research has been published in leading peer-reviewed academic journals, addressing issues ranging from false allegations and evidential sufficiency to the realities of courtroom practice in rape trials.
Selected publications can be accessed here:
Myths and Reality: An Empirical Challenge to False Beliefs About Courtroom Practice in Rape and Serious Sexual Offence Cases — Criminal Law Review (2025), 392–409.
The Truth, the Half-Truth, and Nothing Like the Truth: Reconceptualizing False Allegations of Rape — British Journal of Criminology (2012), 52:1152–1171.
