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From best-selling creator Jon Krakauer, a stark, powerful, meticulously reported narrative about a series of intimate assaults at the College or university of Montana - stories that light up the human drama behind the nationwide plague of campus rape. Missoula, Montana, is an average school town, with a highly regarded state university or college, bucolic area, a lively sociable scene, and a great soccer team - the Grizzlies - with a rabid fan base. The Department of Justice investigated 350 intimate assaults reported to the Missoula law enforcement officials between January 2008 and May 2012. Few of these assaults were properly completed by either the university or college or local regulators. In this Missoula is also typical. A DOJ statement released in Dec of 2014 quotes 110,000 women between the age range of 18 and 24 are raped every year. Krakauer's damaging narrative of what took place in Missoula makes clear why rape is so common on American campuses and why rape subjects are so reluctant to report assault. Acquaintance rape is a crime like no other. Unlike burglary or embezzlement or any other felony, the sufferer often comes under more suspicion than the alleged perpetrator. This is also true if the sufferer is sexually active, if she have been drinking before the assault - if the person she accuses takes on on a favorite sports team. The vanishingly small but highly publicized situations of incorrect accusations are often used to dismiss her cases in the press. In case the case would go to trial, the woman's whole personal life becomes good game for defense attorneys. This brutal reality goes a long way toward describing why acquaintance rape is the most underreported crime in America. In addition to physical injury, its subjects often suffer devastating psychological destruction that contributes to feelings of shame, emotional paralysis, and stigmatization. PTSD rates for rape subjects are predicted to be 50 percent - greater than soldiers going back from war.
