Dr Charlotte Herriott

Courses taught:

• Criminology (Postgraduate)
• Criminology (Undergraduate)
• Criminology and Policing (Undergraduate)
• Criminology and Sociology (Undergraduate)
• Policing and Criminal Justice (Undergraduate)

Charlotte is a Lecturer in Criminology and Policing, and Course Leader for ARU's MA Criminology. Her current research interests relate to sexual violence, particularly criminal justice responses, and sexual violence within the UK armed forces.

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Background

Charlotte joined the criminology team at ARU in 2021, following three years as a postgraduate research student at ARU, on a Vice Chancellor’s PhD studentship.

Charlotte’s PhD was the first research in England and Wales to examine the impact of sexual history evidence on mock jury deliberations in rape trials. It identifies the ongoing prejudicial nature of this evidence at trial, and highlights the need for criminal justice reform.

Charlotte is also currently working with colleagues within ARU’s Veterans and Families Institute, examining the service justice system response to sexual offending, and exploring military specific factors which may complicate responses to sexual offending.

Charlotte teaches on a variety of modules across the criminology programme, focusing mainly on areas of violence, sexual violence and the criminal justice system.

Research interests

• Sexual Violence
• Violence against women and girls
• Rape Trials
• Criminal Justice System
• Jury decision making
• Sexual Violence in the Military
• Feminist Criminology

Areas of research supervision

• Sexual violence
• Criminal justice response to sexual offending
• Service justice response to sexual offending

Teaching

Charlotte currently teaches on the following modules:

• Violence in Context (Level 7)
• Postgraduate Major Project (Level 7)
• Exploitation, Trafficking, and Sexual Violence (Level 6)
• Violence, Gender, and Victimisation (Level 5)

Qualifications

• PhD Criminology, Anglia Ruskin University [pass with no corrections]
• MA Women and Child Abuse, CWASU, London Metropolitan University
• LLB Law, University of Sheffield
• Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy

Memberships, editorial boards

• British Society of Criminology
• British Society of Criminology Postgraduate Committee
• Socio-Legal Studies Association
• Centre for Military Women’s Research, ARU

Selected recent publications

Herriott, C.; Campbell, G; Godier-McBard, L.; Wood, A. and Murphy, D. (2024) Invited Editorial. Defining Military Sexual Trauma in the UK: Establishing Parameters and Perspectives. European Journal of Psychotraumatology. DOI: 10.1080/20008066.2024.2390759.

Herriott, C. (2024) Invited Book review: sexual history evidence and the rape trial, Journal of Criminal Psychology.

Fossey, M.; Godier-McBard, L.; Herriott, C.; Wood, A. and Daly, E. (2024) Chapter 10 – Using Sexual Violence Scenarios As An Aid To Training, NATO Technical Report on Sexual Violence in the Military. AC/323(HFM-295) TP/1129. DOI: 10.14339/STO-TR-HFM-295.

Herriott, C. (2024) Attack as the Best Form of Defence? Rape Myth Construction in the Adversarial Legal System, in Pandey, M. (eds) International Perspectives on Gender-Based Violence, Springer.

Herriott, C., Wood, A., Gillin, N., Fossey, M. and Godier-McBard, L. (2023) Sexual offences committed by members of the Armed Forces: Is the service justice system fit for purpose? Criminology and Criminal Justice.

Herriott, C. (2023) Sexual History Evidence: Is the Jury Out? Routledge. ISBN: 978103238477.

Herriott, C. (2022) Researching Rape Trials using Online Mock Jury Simulations, SAGE Research Methods Cases.

Herriott, C. (2022) Mock Jury Simulations: Adapting to Online Methodologies, SAGE Research Methods: Doing Research Online.

Smith, O., Daly, E., Herriott, C., and Willmott, D (2021) State Compensation as Rape Justice: Are Public Attitudes a Legitimate Foundation for Reform of the UK’s Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme? Journal of Gender-Based Violence. ISSN 2398-6816.

Smith, O., Daly, E. and Herriott, C. (2019). Sexual Offences and the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme: Research Briefing. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.16776.67844/1.

Recent presentations and conferences

Herriott, C. and Godier-McBard, L. (2024) Understanding Female Veterans Experiences of Sexual Violence in the UK Armed Forces. Presented at: British International Studies Association Conference, 5 June 2024. Birmingham, UK.

Herriott, C. (2024, invited) Scrutinising the SJS Response to Military Sexual Violence: Learning from Female Veterans. Presented at: International Conference on the Solider as Victim, 24 April 2024. Birmingham Newman University, UK.

Herriott, C. (2024, invited) Navigating Sexual Violence during Service: Learning for Victim-Survivor Voices. Presented at: Office for Veterans Affairs Academic Seminar Series, 13 March 2024. Online.

Herriott, C. (2024, invited) Female Veterans Experiences of Military Sexual Violence: Navigating the Service Justice System. Presented at: Irwin Mitchell - Connecting Female Veterans Conference, 7 March 2024. Manchester, UK.

Herriott, C. (2023, invited) The SJS Response to Sexual Offending: Learning from Victim-Survivor Voices. Presented at: Military Sexual Violence – An International Perspective, 13 December 2023. Centre for Military Women’s Research, Cambridge, UK.

Herriott, C. (2023) “It was honestly horrific:” Female Veteran’s Experiences of Reporting Sexual Offences in the United Kingdom Service Justice System. Presented at: Canadian Institute for Military and Veteran Health Research, 17 October 2023. Ottawa, Canada.

Herriott, C. (2023) Assessing the Impact of Sexual History Evidence on Mock Juror Decision Making. Presented at: European Society of Criminology Conference, 7 September 2023. Florence: Italy.

Herriott, C. and Fossey, M. (2023, invited) Sexual Offences in the UK Military: Understanding Prevalence and Interrogating the Service Justice Response. Presented at: Irwin Mitchel: Against the Odds - Great Military Campaigns, 22 March 2023. Online.

Herriott, C. (2022) “Maybe there was mixed messages:” Rape Myth Endorsement and Victim Blame amongst 21st Century Jurors. Presented at: Colloquium on The Jury System, 9 August 2022. University of Glasgow.

Herriott, C. and Daly, E. (2022) Rape Complainant’s Sexual Behaviour: New evidence of the utility of section 41 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act (1999). Presented at: Socio-Legal Scholars Association Conference 2022, 8 April 2022. University of York.