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Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer
4.0
Digital audio book narrated by Mozhan Marno and Scott Brick
Subtitle: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town. Krakauer explores the issue of acquaintance rape (sometimes called “date rape”). While every young woman is warned about strangers, the dangers of being out alone at night, and being alert to her surroundings, crime statistics show that most rapists are NOT men in ski-masks hiding in dark alleys. In fact, many more sexual assaults take place between acquaintances. That young man you’ve known through work or school is much more likely to assault you than a total stranger is.
He focuses on one college town, and a couple of star football players, and the women who were their victims. The events he details began in 2010 and he follows the cases through about 2014, exploring how the assaults affected the rapists, the detectives, the women victims, their friends and families. It is at times a very disturbing book. But it is one that more people should read. This topic SHOULD make us uncomfortable, we should be enraged at the way in which the justice systems treats these women, and at the way in which the universities (and their all-important big-donor alumni) dismiss the women’s stories in favor of supporting the athletes.
Krakauer chose this particular state-run Montana university and the football players involved. But this story could just as easily have been based at a private college in the East, or featured rapists who were not star athletes.
The audio version is jointly narrated by Mozhan Marno and Scott Brick. Marno does most of the book, with Brick voicing the forward and the final chapter where Krakauer writes in first person. They do an exceptionally good job.
Subtitle: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town. Krakauer explores the issue of acquaintance rape (sometimes called “date rape”). While every young woman is warned about strangers, the dangers of being out alone at night, and being alert to her surroundings, crime statistics show that most rapists are NOT men in ski-masks hiding in dark alleys. In fact, many more sexual assaults take place between acquaintances. That young man you’ve known through work or school is much more likely to assault you than a total stranger is.
He focuses on one college town, and a couple of star football players, and the women who were their victims. The events he details began in 2010 and he follows the cases through about 2014, exploring how the assaults affected the rapists, the detectives, the women victims, their friends and families. It is at times a very disturbing book. But it is one that more people should read. This topic SHOULD make us uncomfortable, we should be enraged at the way in which the justice systems treats these women, and at the way in which the universities (and their all-important big-donor alumni) dismiss the women’s stories in favor of supporting the athletes.
Krakauer chose this particular state-run Montana university and the football players involved. But this story could just as easily have been based at a private college in the East, or featured rapists who were not star athletes.
The audio version is jointly narrated by Mozhan Marno and Scott Brick. Marno does most of the book, with Brick voicing the forward and the final chapter where Krakauer writes in first person. They do an exceptionally good job.