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

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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 inher] 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 evi