Sex crimes

Author: Alice S. Vachss
ISBN: 9780679424352

As a front-line 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 cases of rape, incest, and child sexual abuse. Now, in Sex Crimes, 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 boys' club to get closer to his victims; the serial rapist who terrorized the city as "The Stalker"; and the violent incest offender who tortured his "property" (his own daughter) for more than a dozen years. "My first lesson about sex crimes prosecution", Vachss writes, "was that perpetrators were not the only enemy". She shows how the system is weighted against victims as she describes the "rape collaborators" - police officers and judges whose ingrained attitudes aid and comfort criminals, e

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publish Date: 1993

Subjects: True Crime / General, Law / Legal Profession, Political Science / General, Social Science / Criminology, Biography & Autobiography / General

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Sexual Assault/Harassment)