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Author Krakauer, Jon.

Title Missoula : rape and the justice system in a college town / Jon Krakauer.

Imprint New York : Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2016.
©2015

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 PHS Non-Fiction  362.883 Krakauer    ---  Available
Edition 1st Anchor Bks. ed., January 2016.
Description xv, 398 p. ; 20 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-398).
Contents Allison -- Before the law sits a gatekeeper -- Unwanted attention -- Scales of justice -- Trial by jury -- Aftershocks.
Indexed In: School Library Journal starred, August 2015
Library Journal, June 2015
Booklist starred, June 2015
Kirkus Review, May 2015
Publishers Weekly Annex, April 2015
Summary "The Department of Justice investigated 350 sexual assaults reported to the Missoula police between January 2008 and May 2012. Few of these assaults were properly handled by either the university or local authorities. Chronicles the... experiences of several women in Missoula -- the nights when they were raped; their fear and self-doubt in the aftermath; the way they were treated by the police, prosecutors, defense attorneys; the public vilification and private anguish; their bravery in pushing forward and what it cost them"--Provided by publisher.
Audience Adult Follett School Solutions.
Subject Rape -- Missoula (Mont.)
Rape victims.
Trials (Rape) -- Missoula (Mont.)
ISBN 9780804170567

 
    
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