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Jon Krakauer

Missoula

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From bestselling author Jon Krakauer, a stark, powerful, meticulously
reported narrative about a series of sexual assaults at the University
of Montana ­— stories that illuminate the human drama behind the national plague of campus rape

Missoula, Montana, is a
typical college town, with a highly regarded state university, bucolic
surroundings, a lively social scene, and an excellent football team the Grizzlies with a rabid fan base.
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. In
this, Missoula is also typical.
A DOJ report released in December of 2014 estimates 110,000 women between the ages of eighteen
and twenty-four are raped each year. Krakauer’s devastating narrative of what happened in Missoula makes clear why rape is so prevalent on American campuses, and why rape victims are so reluctant to report
assault.
Acquaintance rape is a crime like no other. Unlike
burglary or embezzlement or any other felony, the victim often comes
under more suspicion than the alleged perpetrator. This is especially
true if the victim is sexually active; if she had been drinking prior to the assault — and if the man she accuses plays on a popular sports
team. The vanishingly small but highly publicized incidents of false
accusations are often used to dismiss her claims in the press. If the
case goes to trial, the woman’s entire personal life becomes fair game
for defense attorneys.
This brutal reality goes a long way towards explaining why acquaintance rape is the most underreported crime
in America. In addition to physical trauma, its victims often suffer
devastating psychological damage that leads to feelings of shame,
emotional paralysis and stigmatization. PTSD rates for rape victims are estimated to be 50%, higher than soldiers returning from war.
In Missoula,
Krakauer chronicles the searing 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.
Some of them
went to the police. Some declined to go to the police, or to press
charges, but sought redress from the university, which has its own,
non-criminal judicial process when a student is accused of rape. In two
cases the police agreed to press charges and the district attorney
agreed to prosecute. One case led to a conviction; one to an acquittal.
Those women courageous enough to press charges or to speak publicly
about their experiences were attacked in the media, on Grizzly football
fan sites, and/or to their faces. The university expelled three of the
accused rapists, but one was reinstated by state officials in a secret
proceeding. One district attorney testified for an alleged rapist at his
university hearing. She later left the prosecutor’s office and
successfully defended the Grizzlies’ star quarterback in his rape trial.
The horror of being raped, in each woman’s case, was magnified by the
mechanics of the justice system and the reaction of the community.
Krakauer’s
dispassionate, carefully documented account of what these women endured
cuts through the abstract ideological debate about campus rape.
College-age women are not raped because they are promiscuous, or drunk,
or send mixed signals, or feel guilty about casual sex, or seek
attention. They are the victims of a terrible crime and deserving of compassion from society and fairness from a justice system that is clearly broken.
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    Seemingly by design, the American legal system encourages defense counsel to be as mendacious as possible. As Monroe Freedman, a legal ethicist and former dean of Hofstra Law School, has written, “The attorney is obligated to attack, if he can, the reliability or credibility of an opposing witness whom he knows to be truthful.” It’s an essential component of our adversarial
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    And honestly, I think…you deserve to be raped every day until you understand the pain you have caused me, until you understand what this does to you emotionally—until you get it, Beau. Until you are actually sorry. Until you can take responsibility and get help….And I truly hope that you can come out of this a person of quality, a person of substance. I hope after you are punished, and after you get it, that you have a great life….Until then, I don’t care what happens to you.
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