Zeigt Titel in Sexualverbrechen

In early 2018, Larry Nassar, the former doctor for USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University, was sentenced to serve out the rest of his life in prison after pleading guilty to a variety of sex crimes. New York Times best-selling author Mary Pilon and Carla Correa chronicle the scandal from its inception, tracking the institutions that Nassar hid behind, the athletic culture that he benefited from, and the women who eventually brought him to justice.

Now the Netflix Limited Series Unbelievable, starring Toni Collette, Merritt Wever, and Kaitlyn Dever Two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists tell the riveting true crime story of a teenager charged with lying about having been raped—and the detectives who followed a winding path to arrive...

In April 1989, a white woman who came to be known as the 'Central Park jogger' was brutally raped and severely beaten, her body left crumpled in a ravine. Amid the staggering torrent of media coverage and public outcry that ensued, exposing the deep-seated race and class divisions in New York City at the time, five teenagers were quickly apprehended - four black and one Hispanic. All five confessed, were tried and convicted as adults despite no evidence linking them to the victim.

In June of 1970, the body of twenty-four-year-old Nancy Morgan was found inside a government-owned car in Madison County, North Carolina. It had been four days since anyone had heard from the bubbly, hard-working brunette who had moved to the Appalachian community less than a year prior as an organizer for Volunteers in Service to America. The initial investigation was thwarted by inept police work, jurisdictional confusion, and the influence of local corruption. Fourteen years would pass before an arrest in the case would be made, but even then, a pall would be cast over the evidence.

For over four decades the story of the extraordinary evil that occurred at the Kincora Boys’ Home in East Belfast in the 1970s and the shocking attempts by MI5 to cover it up have haunted our political and social terrain for decades. Award-winning former BBC journalist Chris Moore has been...

Seduïda a l'edat de catorze anys per Gabriel Matzneff, cèlebre escriptor de cinquanta, Vanessa Springora desgrana, tres dècades més tard, el control i la manipulació que aquell home va exercir sobre ella, enamorada en cos i ànima, i l'empremta inesborrable de la relació al llarg de la seva vida. De Matzneff, com Springora va descobrir ben aviat, eren àmpliament conegudes les relacions depredadores i impunes amb menors de setze anys que, a més, nodrien la seva obra d'escriptor amb fama d'apassionat.

Everyone is afraid of the boogie man. Society has been conditioned to view “real rape” as that which is perpetrated on a virtuous woman by a horrible, psychotic stranger. The truth is, you are more likely to be sexually assaulted by someone you know. People turn to victim blaming to retain some measure of control and to help conceal the harsh reality that the boogie man could actually be anyone.

Glen Walsh and Steven Alward were childhood friends in their tight-knit working-class community in Shortland, on the outskirts of Newcastle, New South Wales. Both proud altar boys at the local Catholic church, they went on to attend the city's Catholic boys' highs schools: Glen to Marist Brothers and Steven to St Pius X. Both did well: Steven became a journalist, Glen a priest. But when Glen discovered another priest was sexually abusing boys, he reported the offending to police, breaking Canon Law and his vows to the Catholic 'brotherhood' in the process.

The definitive account of Bill Cosby's transition from revered father figure to convicted criminal, told by a veteran crime reporter and former senior writer for People magazine Bill Cosby's decades-long career as a sweater-wearing, wholesome TV dad came to a swift and stunning end on April 26...

A "powerful and scary and important and true" memoir of a young woman's struggle to regain her sense of self after trauma, and the efforts by a powerful New England boarding school to silence her—at any cost (Sally Mann, author of Hold Still). Shortlisted for the 2022 William Saroyan...

The prevalence of sex crimes has become one of the most urgent and most widely misunderstood subjects of our times. We are living through a sea change in our attitudes to sex crimes, yet we continue to get things badly wrong in the way we respond to them. Drawing on over 30 years' experience, Patrick Tidmarsh argues that we need to find a new way to understand, investigate and talk about these crimes. He forces us all to question our own prejudices and assumptions - about both victims and perpetrators.

Il primo libro sul caso di Francesco Ferreri 16 dicembre 2005. È sera. Francesco Ferreri, un tredicenne di Barrafranca, in provincia di Enna, esce di casa. E scompare. Due giorni dopo il suo corpo viene ritrovato in un'incisione lungo la strada provinciale, a pochi chilometri dalla cittadina erea. Qualcuno ha ucciso Francesco la sera stessa della sua scomparsa. Trascorrono alcuni mesi. I carabinieri arrestano quattro adulti e un minorenne. Il principale teste d'accusa è Angelo, un coetaneo di Francesco.

Abandonnées dès leur naissance, les jumelles Isabelle et Mireille Grenier sont restées à la crèche plus de deux ans sans que personne les adopte...jusqu'à ce qu'un couple décide de les accueillir. L'histoire aurait pu se terminer là et avoir une fin heureuse, mais ce fut loin d'être le cas....

¿Qué pasó con Nevenka tras el «caso Nevenka»? Nevenka Fernández se convirtió en una figura pública por ser la primera mujer en conseguir una sentencia condenatoria por acoso sexual en el ámbito laboral contra un político, convirtiendo el caso que lleva su nombre en un hito histórico de la lucha contra la violencia de género en España. Nevenka tuvo que enfrentarse no solo al proceso judicial, sino también a un fuerte rechazo social y mediático, lo que la llevó, en 2001, a abandonar España.

December, 2018. The aftermath of a night of revelry. The promise of a party. And then, a journey into darkness that would change the course of Nikita Hand's life - as she endured a brutal assault where she believed she would die. Here, in her own words, Nikita tells her unforgettable story. From...

In this news-breaking narrative, decades of women who brought down sexual predator Larry Nassar offer groundbreaking new insight, with the first known survivor and many others sharing their stories exclusively for the first time. We think of Larry Nassar as the despicable sexual predator of...

Una famiglia allargata e privilegiata, la familia grande, in cui regna una libertà assoluta, fieri di appartenere a una generazione di intellettuali prima rivoluzionari e poi borghesi. È in questa famiglia atipica, che mescola gioie e sofferenze, vacanze al mare e indicibili segreti, che crescono Camille e il fratello gemello Victor. Il loro patrigno è Olivier Duhamel, politologo di fama mondiale, membro dell’élite accademica e politica progressista, che ha sposato la madre, una delle prime donne docenti di Scienze sociali e Diritto pubblico.

Poison Kisses by Karen Teasdale, nominated for the White Rose International Film Festival 2026, is a harrowing true story of survival, betrayal, and cruelty hidden behind closed doors. To the outside world Karen's mum appeared a devoted mother. In reality, she was a narcissistic psychopath obsessed with control, humiliation, and causing pain. Later, her daughter was told her mother suffered from complex mental health issues including Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, but her manipulation went far beyond seeking attention. Her daughter became her primary victim.

On an ordinary January afternoon, a disturbing revelation about his wife hurls one man into a maelstrom of public humiliation and heartbreak, and eventually on a spree of run-ins with lawyers, judges, therapists, and law enforcement. Land of July tells the true story of a teacher/student sex scandal that not only shocked an entire school and small suburban community, but made national news. It’s a story filled with countless anecdotes about marriage, trust, infidelity, grief, and the desperate search for hope and family in the face of ruin.

At once a cold case investigation and self-help memoir, The Trauma Monster follows retired trauma therapist Barb Dorrington as she investigates the unsolved 1968 murder of her childhood friend, Scott Leishman. She meets many survivors during her search for clues. Their stories of abduction, sexual assault, and home invasion are terrifying, but they also serve as catharsis for those who have kept their stories secret for far too long.