Sex Crimes

by Alice Vachss

Book Overview

From her ten years of experience in the Queens, New York, district attorney's office, the author offers a searing indictment of our justice system and how it "collaborates" with rapists. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679424350
• ISBN13: 9780679424352
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: Random House (NY)
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

"She drinks blood for breakfast" a judge remarks

We desperately need more like this strong lady here (I wish she had been with me in 1968) This is some of Alice Vachss's experiences in the court room prosecuting sex crimes (special victims). She enlightens you as to all the back room deals / politicking that favors the rapist / abuser instead of the victim. How rape/sexual abuse are trivialized. It's a sad commentary on our justice system and us as human beings, but I am still hopeful knowing a warrior like Ms Vachss is there. This is her and her husbands (Andrew, who writes bloody awful fiction novels) fight. Let's hope for a KO. I hope she writes more for us, she's that good and interesting. I'm shocked and sorta put out that there aren't more reviews here. Maybe Ms Vachss should do a speaking tour of some kind. Her kind of good deeds need advertising.And to the reviewer "What an ego". I don't know how you got that impression but hey!, Ms Vachss has got every right to be proud and crow alittle. Tho she doesn't come off that way to me at all. And as far as Mr. Vachss (a warrior for children who are victims of abuse) goes, he should leave the writing to his better half ;o)

Bravo for bravery, claity and brilliance

In respnse to "What an ego" I can only say that this reader can't read perceptively and/or has a bad case of twisted projection or perhaps is a perpetrator him/herself and fears the justice seekers. 'Nuff said about that. Mrs. Vachss' book is a superlative testimomy to a strenuous career of unrelenting passion to procecute the sickening evil that goes by the understatement "sex crimes." People tend to be afraid of this subject because this country is rife with sexual (of all brands) crimes. I recommend this book highly, even higher than that for a look at the guts and undepinnings of this culture. I would make it mandatory high school reading. It might serve to scare would be perps and quiet the nervousness of the victims--to know that someone so courageous, uncompromising, and uncorruptible is on the side of true heroic justice.

FANTASTIC HONEST BRAVE INDICTMENT SHE IS MY HERO

Don't let the nay sayer fool you. My bet is they may well have some agenda for knocking Ms. Vachss' book. I read this book when it first was published; and found it searingly brave. Ms. Vachss stood up to cowardice in her job as a lawyer, cowardice and ineptitude from the judges who are paid by the very citizens they fail to even wish to protect. Judges who care more about being kissed up to, or any number of stupid things, than doing their job. People who are paid to protect, to help put monsters in jail, and who stop to comment instead on how green the lawyer's eyes are. Ms. Vachss also provides strength to the victims of the 'humans' out there raping and bragging about getting away with it all. She says how brave those women were to prosecute, and she is so right. Ms. Vachss and Andrew Vachss are my heroes. They are warriors out there for the most righteous cause: protecting those who are being victimized by evil predators, and prosecuting those same predators in an attempt to do all they can to put a stop to their deeds. They both have my highest respect. Read this book and get a clear idea from the inside, of how far there is yet to go before there is true justice. And of real bravery in action from one warrior who fought and still fights, to achieve it: Alice Vachss.

Vachss nails the criminal justice system hard

Many involved in the criminal justice system may claim that Vachss has no "hard" evidence, just circumstantial "sour grapes." Vachss, however, is letting the citizens know exactly what is going on behind the facade of elected and hired "representatives" of the citzens of this nation. There IS no accountability in the criminal justice system and the victims know it. From the time a crime is reported, the victim/citizen is at the mercy of the whims of his/her "protectors" and "champions of justice". Police respond IF and WHEN they want, DAs decide to take the cases IF it serves THEIR purposes, and judges play their ego games as they run their own private country inside the courtroom. There is little the private citizen can do to even find out what is being done. Vachss should be read by every citizen and anyone with the least connection to the criminal justice system. Rapists and serial killers walk free everyday because many on the inside of the criminal justice system have no interest in those outside of it. Pat Brown, Director/Investigative Criminal Profiler/The Sexual Homicide Exchange of Washington DC and Vicinity.

Excellent! If you like 'true crime' and 'police proceedures'

The author has been a sex crimes prosecutor and tells it like it is--complete with the politics of New York City. What you come away with is an eye opening look at society