Reviews tagging 'Sexism'

Killers Amidst Killers: Hunting Serial Killers Operating Under the Cloak of America's Opioid Epidemic by Billy Jensen

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jenniferbbookdragon's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

3.75

The primary message of the book is that women with opioid use disorder who are forced to turn to sex work are being killed without any serious interest in solving their murders, and many others have disappeared and police and the media pay no attention. Paying particular attention to missing and murdered women in Ohio who form a large cluster, it is made clear that there are more than one serial killer in the region as well as other murderers who kill casually and simply move on. The data and stories are troubling. I was left with a feeling of compassion for the forgotten casualties of the opioid epidemic and anger at law enforcement,  the criminal "justice " system,  and our society for allowing people to be classified as disposable. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, Trafficking, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Rape, Misogyny, Murder, Sexism, Classism, Addiction, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Violence, Emotional abuse, and Grief

Moderate: Mental illness, Police brutality, Abandonment, Gaslighting, Bullying, Kidnapping, Toxic relationship, Cursing, Alcohol, and Alcoholism