With between 75% and 95% of rapes not reported to the police. In this essay, I seek to discuss the reasons why the law on ‘sexual harms’ and the system which implements has lead to such a low conviction rate, being only 5.6% of reported rapes and the harm victims experience whilst involved in the criminal justice system. The majority of research used in discussion refers specifically to rape, despite this, the problems found in the reporting and conviction of rape, apply more generally to ‘sexual harms’