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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.

Includes an exclusive interview with Peter Howse and Carol Ann Lee A psychopathic criminal on the run from prison. A family of five held hostage in their home. A frantic police manhunt across the snowbound Derbyshire moors. Just one survivor. The definitive account of the terrifying 1977 Pottery...

A shocking true story that reveals how one woman was tormented to the very depths of despair by her husband through coercive control and continual physical and sexual abuse. Broken in mind, body and spirit and completely isolated from the rest of the world, Hannah thinks she’ll never find the...

“Arresting, deeply reported. . . . a patient reporter who embeds with her subjects long enough to write about their inner worlds with authority and nuance. . . . The Furies is deeply respectful of its subjects’ autonomy, including their self-justifications and mistakes. Flock largely...

Only one TV interview with a serial killer has ever been recorded in a British jail and broadcast. The Dennis Nilsen Tapes: In Jail with Britain's Most Infamous Serial Killer covers four hours of interrogation, two days spent face to face with Nilsen and two years of graphic correspondence and confessions. With fresh insight from world famous psychological profilers and a leading pathologist, Morley completes almost three decades of investigation into what turned the former chef, policeman and civil servant into one of the world's most notorious murderers and necrophiles.

Nobody's Girl er Virginia Roberts Giuffres personlige og medrivende fortælling om sit liv og ikke mindst om de mange år med overgreb, der begyndte da hun var 7 og fortsatte gennem teenageårene, hvor hun blev misbrugt af Jeffrey Epstein og Ghislaine Maxwell og kredsen omkring dem, indtil hun som 19-årig slap ud af deres greb. Bogen er hendes åbenhjertige fortælling om, hvad der skete. En fortælling om at være en helt almindelig pige, hvis almindelige liv blev taget fra hende. Men også om at finde viljestyrken til at slippe ud og evnen til at vende sine egne traumer til en kamp for ofrene.

The definitive, devastating account of the largest sex abuse scandal in American sports history-with new details and insights into the institutional failures, as well as the bravery that brought it to light. For decades, osteopathic physician Larry Nassar built a sterling reputation as the go-to...

At 45, Lucky finally feels like she has achieved her dreams – a lovely life with a successful career, beautiful son, adoring husband, two dogs and house in the ‘burbs. But when Lucky’s mother and 100-year-old grandfather violently attack her home, it sends her spiraling out of control. Her delicately crafted double life begins to collapse, and she is finally forced to confront decades of terror, abuse and secrets she has been hiding from everyone – including herself. Lucky breaks the silence of generations, threatening her sanity and the safety of those she so carefully protected.

Leading criminologist Katherine Ramsland has had the unique perspective of experiencing true crime culture over the course of three decades as both an observer and a participant. As a teenager, a series of murders of young women and the subsequent conviction of a college student sparked her...

From Christina Lamb, the coauthor of the bestselling I Am Malala and an award-winning journalist—an essential, groundbreaking examination of how women experience war. In Our Bodies, Their Battlefields, longtime intrepid war correspondent Christina Lamb makes us witness to the lives of women in...

In this instant New York Times bestselling account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost. Inspiration for the HBO Max streaming documentary...

In the summer of 1995, at the largest Boy Scout camp in Ohio, a night of sexual violence ended with one counselor dead and another hospitalized. The death was ruled "accidental." It wouldn't be the last death associated with Seven Ranges Reservation. James Renner, too, was a counselor at Seven Ranges that year. He was always sure there must be more to the story of Mike Klingler's death, because Renner also knew firsthand that the 900-acre camp was not the safe getaway it was portrayed to be. 

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...

Maureen Sullivan was pas twaalf jaar oud toen ze haar leraar toevertrouwde dat haar stiefvader haar mishandelde en seksueel misbruikte. Binnen vierentwintig uur werd Maureen uit haar huis en bij haar geliefde oma vandaan gehaald en naar het Magdalenawashuis in New Ross, Wexford gestuurd, dat werd geleid door de kloosterorde The Good Shepherds.

Thirty-two case files. Decades of murder. Predators who thought the truth would stay buried. Across American highways, suburban streets, forgotten properties, quiet neighborhoods, and crime scenes left cold for years, killers moved through ordinary life while families waited in agony for answers. American True Crime Files investigates thirty-two disturbing cases involving serial killers, calculated murderers, unidentified predators, missing women, buried evidence, wrongful convictions, forensic breakthroughs, and investigations that refused to die.

At 18, Callie's encounter with Reed, a brooding and arty student four years her senior, begins a youthful infatuation, a casual "thing." But as their relationship deepens, what once seemed like innocent passion soon morphs into a cycle of manipulation, control, and violence. Callie shares the complexity of falling in love with someone who also hurt her — emotionally, physically, and sexually.

For four years of his childhood, PJ Smyth endured the unthinkable at the hands of his father—a man who posed as a spiritual leader while inflicting devastating abuse. This is Smyth’s raw, unflinching account of that trauma, and of the long road to healing. Told with piercing honesty yet surprising hope, this brief but unforgettable memoir was written to be read in a single sitting. Its brevity is intentional: distilled truth, no fluff—just one man’s story of pain and the grace that carried him through.

A healthy twelve-year-old dies inside his principal’s remote cabin. The school board allows that principal to return to the classroom. This was the reality faced by Jeremy Bell’s family and friends. From the beginning, they questioned the claim that Jeremy had simply died of a heart attack. Their search for answers met resistance, delay, and silence. Years later, a new sheriff and a new team of investigators reopened the case. They discovered that nearly a gallon of chloroform had been shipped to Edgar Friedrichs Jr.

For over four decades, Cynthia L. Clack, a Texas Board Certified Family Law specialist, has been uncovering a disturbing pattern. She’s consistently observed how court outcomes failed to reflect the existing evidence in cases involving child sexual abuse, trafficking, and coercion. Again and again, investigations stalled, decisions were reversed, and critical voices were ignored. The result is a system where the most vulnerable are too often left unprotected.

The twelve cases in this volume span half a century and four countries, and they turn on a single unsettling truth: the evidence was usually there long before anyone was willing to read it. These weren't crimes of a single hot second. They were choices, made and remade by people who had every chance to stop and chose instead to keep going.