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Charlotte Herriott is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Policing at Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), located in Cambridge. She serves as Course Leader for the MA Criminology program within the Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Her expertise centers on sexual violence, criminal justice responses, and military contexts.
Charlotte holds a PhD in Criminology from ARU (2021), an MA in Women and Child Abuse, and an LLB in Law. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and actively contributes to the British Society of Criminology and the Centre for Military Women’s Research.
Her research focuses on sexual violence within the UK armed forces, jury decision-making in rape trials, and feminist criminological perspectives. Key projects include examining sexual history evidence’s prejudicial impact on juries and critiquing the service justice system’s response to military sexual offenses. She collaborates with ARU’s Veterans and Families Institute to advance this work.
Teaching spans postgraduate and undergraduate modules on violence dynamics, criminal justice systems, and sexual violence. Recent publications (2022–2024) address military sexual trauma definitions, adversarial legal system critiques, and NATO sexual violence training frameworks. She frequently presents at international conferences like the European Society of Criminology and the Canadian Institute for Military and Veteran Health Research.
Charlotte’s work intersects academic research with policy advocacy, emphasizing victim-survivor voices in shaping institutional reforms. She maintains active involvement in editorial boards and professional societies dedicated to advancing criminological and gender-based violence scholarship.
