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Sex Crimes : Then and Now: My Years on the Front Lines Prosecuting Rapists and Confronting Their Collaborators - Alice Vachss

Sex Crimes

Then and Now: My Years on the Front Lines Prosecuting Rapists and Confronting Their Collaborators

By: Alice Vachss

Paperback | 1 May 2017

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"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. Nick (Goodfellas) Pileggi called it "the single best book about prosecuting sex crimes in America, period." Now, twenty years later, Alice Vachss becomes Special Prosecutor for Sex Crimes in a new environment ... on the opposite coast, in a small rural community. 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. For those who want something more than press releases and Trash-TV "coverage," this no-compromises ebook offers the brutal truth.
    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. 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." She shows how the system is heavily weighted against victims. 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.
    Asked in a 2007 interview in The Guardian “Does she miss putting rapists in prison? ‘Hell, yes,’ says Vachss. 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 insisting to a jury: "I don't have to prove motive. The motive for rape is rape," and battling a system hell-bent on freeing a monster. Inevitably, Vachss reached a point of no return, “Years before, Richard A. Brown’s response when he was asked why he fired me was that I’d done an excellent job. Ever-aware of the politics of prosecution, Brown had waited until he was elected, not simply appointed, before taking it upon himself to decide how much weight ‘doing an excellent job’ would or would not carry in his office. All these years later this new DA was about to make the same decision.” Reviewed as "even better than the original" Sex Crimes: Now is an important and immensely readable sequel.

What reviewers have said about Sex Crimes: Then and Now

  • Read this book: you will never forget it.
  • This should be required reading for every school in America.
  • I think this title should be mandatory for everyone.
Industry Reviews

Three elements make the book both terrific and terrifying: the personal story of this committed modern-day warrior and feminist heroine; her gritty professional struggles; and the courageous victims who will haunt you. Nobody knows rapists better than Alice Vachss."
-Edna Buchanan, The Washington Post Book World

"An impassioned account of rape victims, the criminals who terrorize them, and the legal system that too often neglects them."
-Entertainment Weekly

"Angry, insightful and righteous, this memoir recounts specific cases against pedophiles, serial rapists and incest offenders."
-Publisher's Weekly  

from verified ebook reader reviews;
“this is no mere update: it includes the already excellent original version, covering Vachss's work in New York (the "Then"), *plus* entirely new material (the "Now"), about equal to the length of the original, that covers Vachss's post-New York work as a prosecutor in the Pacific Northwest.”

“A beautiful portrayal of the challenges facing sex crimes prosecutors and the honor of the law in a time when lawyers are poorly valued.”

“Gritty, real, heartbreaking and for me anyway, inspiring.”

“Unless you have actually been there, you can't consider yourself an informed person without reading Sex Crimes by Alice Vachss.”

“This book hooked me from the first page on. I am grateful that there are such warriors in the world.”

“If you think you know how the criminal justice system works for prosecuting rape and other sexual abuse crimes from news reports and TV shows … you don’t. This important work by Alice Vachss will set you straight.”

“Alice Vachss has the experience, and the battle-tested credentials to be the only person who could write this book from the insider's point of view.”

“SEX CRIMES is an insider's account from a prosecutor who has slugged it out with the worst scum produced by our society and its systems.”

“Amazing stories of her cases, the politics of the DA offices, and the victims.”

“...Finding real, bone-deep truth, though, is much harder. "Sex Crimes" is one of those rare instances. The book, as published more than twenty years ago, was fascinating and heart-breaking and inspiring and crammed full of important knowledge and insights. This new version takes that original text and then continues, showing all that has changed and all that has sadly remained the same. This is a view of the world as it is--no embellishment. ... The truth is right here, waiting to be absorbed.”

 

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