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Sex Crimes: Ten Years on the Front Lines Prosecuting Rapists and Confronting Their Collaborators
Sex Crimes Ten Years on the Front Lines Prosecuting Rapists and Confronting Their Collaborators Author:Alice S. Vachss Every six seconds a woman in America is raped, yet 98 percent of those victims never see their rapists serve a prison term, according to a recent Senate Judiciary Committee report. As a frontline prosecutor and then as chief of the Special Victims Bureau in the Queens district attorney's office in New York City, Alice Vachss specialized in the m... more »ost difficult cases of rape and child sexual abusethe ones the other lawyers wouldn't touch. Now, in her New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Sex Crimes, the woman the press has described as one of the toughest prosecutors in the country grippingly recounts her ten-year career in law enforcement, and in the process offers a searing indictment of our justice system. Her book not only exposes sex offenders and their methods, it reveals the way police officers, judges, elected officials, attorneys, and even fickle juries collaborate to form a legal system inherently skeptical of cries of rape.« less
ISBN-13: 9780805035025 ISBN-10: 0805035028 Publication Date: 9/15/1994 Pages:284 Edition:1st Owl book ed Rating: