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  1. Jon Krakauer _ Missoula: Rape and the Justice

    It's the police, for the most part, who decide whether a suspect should be arrested, and prosecutors who ultimately determine whether a conviction should be pursued.
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  2. Jon Krakauer _ Missoula: Rape and the Justice

    Surprisingly, once she started working with professional counselors and advocates, Natasha's opinion about the desirability of reporting rapes to the police changed. Her colleagues pointed out that for some victims of sexual assault, engaging with the criminal justice system could traumatize them severely all over again, so the staff at SFTS didn't necessarily recommend it. Her colleagues definitely urged every victim to get counseling, however.
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  3. Jon Krakauer _ Missoula: Rape and the Justice

    According to this mind-set, there can only be two precursors to rape: {1} A stranger jumps out from the bushes; {2} There is no rape unless the woman puts up a fight, to the death if necessary.
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  4. Jon Krakauer _ Missoula: Rape and the Justice

    the vast majority of rapes, well over eighty percent, are actually non-stranger rapes." One of the other myths, he added, was the widely held belief that "a non-stranger assault is less serious and has less serious harm,
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  5. Jon Krakauer _ Missoula: Rape and the Justice

    they share this common idea that a rapist is a guy in a ski mask, wielding a knife, who drags women into the bushes. But these undetected rapists don't wear masks or wield knives or drag women into the bushes. So they had absolutely no sense of themselves as rapists and were only too happy to talk about their sexual behaviors.
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  6. Jon Krakauer _ Missoula: Rape and the Justice

    Most women are all too familiar with men like Calvin Smith. Men whose sense of prerogative renders them deaf when women say, "No thanks," "Not interested," or even "Fuck off, creep." Smith
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  7. Jon Krakauer _ Missoula: Rape and the Justice

    {T}his is a bad thing that's going on," she told Moore, "and we all need to do something to try to fix it." On
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  8. Jon Krakauer _ Missoula: Rape and the Justice

    We understand that honor, truth and hard work win in the end. We are Montana.
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  9. Jon Krakauer _ Missoula: Rape and the Justice

    Many traumatized people expose themselves, seemingly compulsively, to situations reminiscent of the original trauma….Freud thought the aim of repetition was to gain mastery, but clinical experience has shown that this rarely happens; instead, repetition causes further suffering for the victims or for people in their surroundings. In
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  10. Jon Krakauer _ Missoula: Rape and the Justice

    traumatized people find themselves reenacting some aspect of the trauma scene in disguised form, without realizing what they are doing….There
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  11. Jon Krakauer _ Missoula: Rape and the Justice

    You hear that rape victims avoid sex afterwards. But it's actually just as common for some victims to become promiscuous in self-destructive ways.
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  12. Jon Krakauer _ Missoula: Rape and the Justice

    drunk guys who may have 'made mistakes' nearly always get the benefit of the doubt. Drunk girls, however, do not." Compounding
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