NOBODY KNOWS Rapists BETTER After being fired from her post as Chief of the Special Victims Unit for refusing to go along to get along, Alice Vachss published the incendiary Sex Crimes, described as a stark, passionate closing argument in her] broader case against the criminal justice system by the NY Times, which named it as a Notable Book of the Year.
Would she return to the Front line? \'Am I willing to put up with the politics of running for office, or the backstabbing and infighting of being an employee of an elected official? That\'s a much tougher question.\' Julie Bindel, The rapists\' enemy] Sex Crimes: Now finds Alice Vachss, still the same, back in the trenches insistin.
Asked in a 2007 interview in The Guardian Does she miss putting Rapists in prison? \'Hell, yes, \' says Vachss.
In what has come to be her trademarked term, she brands as rape Collaborators police officers and judges whose ingrained attitudes aid and comfort criminals; elected officials and attorneys concerned only with Their political futures; fickle juries seemingly impervious to compelling evidence; and a legal system skeptical of cries of rape.
She shows how the system is heavily weighted against victims.
Included are close-ups of her most harrowing cases, among them the predatory pedophile who headed a boy\'s club to get closer to victims; the serial rapist who terrorized the city as The Stalker and the violent incest offender who tortured his property (his own daughter.) My first lesson about sex crimes prosecution, Vachss writes, was that perpetrators were not the only enemy.
In Sex Crimes: Then, (included free in this two-book package) the woman the press described as one of America\'s toughest prosecutors grippingly recounts her career and in the process offers a searing indictment of our justice system.
For those who want something more than press releases and Trash-TV coverage, this no-compromises ebook offers the brutal truth.
And asks the critical question: What has changed? Sex Crimes: Then and Now shreds the myths about sex crime prosecution in America, revealing that the passage of time and a different locale are mere window dressing for horrors America has yet to face. on the opposite coast, in a small rural community.
Now, twenty Years later, Alice Vachss becomes Special Prosecutor for Sex Crimes in a new environment ...
Nick (Goodfellas) Pileggi called it the single best book about Prosecuting sex crimes in America, period.
NOBODY KNOWS Rapists BETTER After being fired from her post as Chief of the Special Victims Unit for refusing to go along to get along, Alice Vachss published the incendiary Sex Crimes, described as a stark, passionate closing argument in her] broader case against the criminal justice system by the NY Times, which named it as a Notable Book of the Year
