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Nick (Goodfellas) Pileggi called it \u003cem\u003ethe single best book about prosecuting sex crimes in America, period.\u003c\/em\u003e Now, twenty years later, Alice Vachss becomes Special Prosecutor for Sex Crimes in a new environment ... on the opposite coast, in a small rural community. And asks the critical question: What has changed? \u003cstrong\u003eSex Crimes: Then and Now \u003c\/strong\u003eshreds the myths about sex crime prosecution in America, revealing that the passage of time and a different locale are mere window dressing for horrors America has yet to face. For those who want something more than press releases and Trash-TV coverage, this no-compromises ebook offers the brutal truth.\u003cbr\u003e In \u003cstrong\u003eSex Crimes: Then\u003c\/strong\u003e, (included free in this two-book package) the woman the press described as one of America's toughest prosecutors grippingly recounts her career and in the process offers a searing indictment of our justice system. Included are close-ups of her most harrowing cases, among them the predatory pedophile who headed a boy's club to get closer to victims; the serial rapist who terrorized the city as The Stalker and the violent incest offender who tortured his property (his own daughter.)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eMy first lesson about sex crimes prosecution\u003c\/em\u003e, Vachss writes, \u003cem\u003ewas that perpetrators were not the only enemy.\u003c\/em\u003e She shows how the system is heavily weighted against victims. In what has come to be her trademarked term, she brands as rape collaborators police officers and judges whose ingrained attitudes aid and comfort criminals; elected officials and attorneys concerned only with their political futures; fickle juries seemingly impervious to compelling evidence; and a legal system skeptical of cries of rape.\u003cbr\u003e Asked in a 2007 interview in The Guardian \u003cem\u003eDoes she miss putting rapists in prison? 'Hell, yes, ' says Vachss. Would she return to the front line? 'Am I willing to put up with the politics of running for office, or the backstabbing and infighting of being an employee of an elected official? That's a much tougher question.'\u003c\/em\u003e  Julie Bindel, \u003cstrong\u003eThe rapists' enemy\u003c\/strong\u003e]\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eSex Crimes: Now\u003c\/strong\u003e finds Alice Vachss, still the same, back in the trenches insisting to a jury: \u003cem\u003eI don't have to prove motive. The motive for rape is rape, \u003c\/em\u003e and battling a system hell-bent on freeing a monster. Inevitably, Vachss reached a point of no return, \u003cem\u003eYears before, Richard A. Brown's response when he was asked why he fired me was that I'd done an excellent job. Ever-aware of the politics of prosecution, Brown had waited until he was elected, not simply appointed, before taking it upon himself to decide how much weight 'doing an excellent job' would or would not carry in his office. 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