This topic is generally too strong for me. Yet it exists as a component of % of cases I've worked on. I'm generally reporting on finances & attempted breach: White Collar Crime.
Or what I thought was White Collar, with some intermittent victim work. Digging through case files over the years, especially since Texas, the incidents are generally financially motivated and also have an idealogical bent (political/religious).
Perpetuators aren't just stealing $ digitally or physically. There is a collection of traits & assortment of crimes, including physical exploitation.
The synopsis of this book talks about LISTENING to Victims. YES.
I do enjoy working with victims, but nothing is black & white.
In some deeply seeded systems, victims are the other side of perpetrators, as in a coin, like the triad of hero-victim-antagonist. They also change faces; generally the inverse of the perpetrator; yet the two are significantly intertwined.
Those cases, I've dealt with rarely, as I walked away after the first one. Perpetrator & victim were both guilty. It seemed like a mockery of the law; abuses towards people that were trying to help them.
1998 case, the daughter BW that testified in Santa Cruz, she lied. A majority of people in that case, also lied. The DA looking through evidence, had indicators, but it was hard to pin down the truth amidst the wild and conflicting information.
BW, she was a victim, but she lied about whodunit. A decade after that case, she "earned" a manslaughter charge for selling laced drugs to a buyer. She had a manifesto that spoke of intentionally targeting people and having them be murdered, but making it look like drug overdose (suicide). She wanted everyone to feel the pain she keeps inside.
https://lnkd.in/e__YpAdG
A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America
By T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong (2018)
Exhaustively reported and incredibly timely, this book builds on the Pulitzer Prize-winning story by Miller, a ProPublica reporter, and Armstrong, formerly of The Marshall Project. At its heart is a wrenching narrative: Marie, an 18-year-old former foster child who claimed to be raped by a stranger, crumples under pressure from police and says she invented the crime. She is charged with filing a false report, and her carefully won stability begins to unravel. Meanwhile, a gripping whodunit traces two women detectives and their hunt for a serial rapist. As the two stories head toward an inevitable — and maddening — conclusion, Miller and Armstrong dismantle assumptions about the nature of trauma and the fundamentals of great police work. “A lot of times people say, ‘Believe your victim, believe your victim,’” says Colorado Detective Stacy Galbraith. “But I don’t think that that’s the right standpoint. I think it’s listen to your victim. And then corroborate or refute based on how things go.”
https://lnkd.in/e8eCjcwu
