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Between 2010 and 2014, there was a spate of sexual assaults in the university town of Missoula, Montana, which drew the attention of the national mediaand the Department of Justice.
Centering around five cases of sexual assault at the University of Montana, Jon Krakauers account shows how one city became a microcosm for how campus rape is handled in the United States.
Krakauer draws on police interviews, court testimony, and extensive research to reveal the complacency, failures, and successes of the prosecutors, the victims, the Missoula police, and the university in the handling of these disturbingly frequent sexual assault cases.
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About Missoula by Jon Krakauer:
Between 2010 and 2014, there was a spate of sexual assaults in the university town of Missoula, Montana, which drew the attention of the national mediaand the Department of Justice.
Centering around five cases of sexual assault at the University of Montana, Jon Krakauers account shows how one city became a microcosm for how campus rape is handled in the United States.
Krakauer draws on police interviews, court testimony, and extensive research to reveal the complacency, failures, and successes of the prosecutors, the victims, the Missoula police, and the university in the handling of these disturbingly frequent sexual assault cases.
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Summary and Analysis of
Missoula
Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
Based on the Book by Jon Krakauer
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Context
The Department of Justice reports that 2 out of 3 rapes in the United States go unreported. When victims do report, they often face disbelief. For every 344 reports of rape, only 6 rapists will be incarcerated as a result. On-campus rape is a particularly controversial problem, with a Bureau of Justice study finding that 21% of female undergraduates say they have experienced sexual assault at university. In 2013, four Vanderbilt football players were indicted for the gang rape of a fellow student; in 2015 Brock Turner, a member of the Stanford University swim team, was indicted for sexual assaulting an unconscious woman (he only served 3 months in prison, a lenient sentence that caused a public outcry). Columbia student Emma Sulkowicz made headlines in 2014 when she began to carry her dorm room mattress everywhere to protest the universitys and NYPDs failure to bring her rapist to justice. Sulkowiczs case was seen as emblematic of how both the two institutions regularly fail victims of campus assault by not investigating thoroughly enough or by presuming that victims are lying.
Jon Krakauers Missoula investigates the truth behind this theory by examining a spate of rapes that occurred at the University of Montana, Missoula, over a four-year period. Krakauer provides detailed evidence of failings at all official levels in Missoula, and speaks out against the nationwide culture of assuming women lie about rape.
Krakauer was driven to write Missoula after a close friend confided in him that she had been raped in her mid-teens. Her description of the trauma she experienced led Krakauer to realize how often rape victims know their attacker, and how rarely they report them. Campus rapes occur so often that the Department of Justice conducted a study comparing the sexual assault rates of nonstudents and students between 1985 and 2013. Student victims of rape were more likely not to report their attacks, and for both groups, the victim knew the offender in 80% of cases. Missoula is the first book to deal with the issue this decadePeggy Reeves Sandays 2007 reissued book Fraternity Gang Rape examined the connections between fraternity culture and campus rape in and to focus specifically on one university.
Missoula , written by an internationally bestselling author, is a much needed attempt to bring awareness to a painful, and widespread, issue.
Overview
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town centers around several major sexual assault cases that occurred at the University of Montana (UM), Missoula, between 2010 and 2014, and how they shone a light on a wider cultural failure to take acquaintance rape seriously in the United States. The first case described is that of Allison Huguet, raped by Beau Donaldsonher childhood friend and member of the UM football team, the Grizzliesin September 2010. Huguets character was smeared by both lawyers and the public before Donaldson was sentenced, despite his confession and guilty plea to the offense. Three further cases of campus sexual assaultthose of Kerry Barrett, Kelsey Belnap, and Kaitlynn Kellyportray Missoula police as unwilling to believe victims or push for prosecutions. All three women were told police didnt have a strong enough case to charge their attackers; However, Belnap and Kelly sought redress through the University of Montanas court, which expelled their assailants. This raises the question of what place colleges have in administering justice for rape victims.
The case of Cecilia Washburn,* who reported that friend and fellow student Jordan Johnson raped her in November 2011, demonstrates the aggressive tactics deployed by prosecutor Kirsten Pabst and defense attorney David Paoli to discredit the victim. Jordan Johnson was found not guilty in a trial by jury; a public conversation regarding the immunity enjoyed by Grizzly football players followed the case. The Missoula police department was forced to make significant changes in its sexual assault policies and training as a result of a Department of Justice investigation into its failure to investigate rape cases properly.
*denotes a pseudonym has been used in this and all cases hereafter
A note on the summary format: Due to the number of cases, individuals involved, and length of the original work, this summary has been divided into cases rather than chapters. The cases do not appear in the original work in the order that they are related here; rather, the original work is best summarized this way for ease of reader comprehension.
Case One: Allison Huguet
Summary
Allison Huguet and Beau Donaldson had known each other since first grade. Despite going to different universitiesDonaldson to UM as a member of the football team, Huguet to Eastern Oregon Universitythey remained friends, and on September 24, 2010, Huguet attended a party at a house Donaldson was renting with friends in Missoulas university district. She was accompanied by another childhood friend, Keely Williams. After drinking at the party, the two friends agreed to stay over at the house so as not to drink and drive. Williams slept in a bedroom, Huguet alone on the couch.
Huguet woke two hours later to Donaldson raping her. She pretended to be asleep because he could have snapped my neck like a twig. After Donaldson finished, Huguet escaped the house and called her mother, Beth Huguet. While on the phone, Allison turned around to find Donaldson chasing her down the street, demanding that she return to the house. Beth reports hearing her daughter shouting at Donaldson to stay away, and begging for her to come quickly and save her. Beth drove a distressed Allison to the hospital, which referred them to First Step Resource Center, where collection of a rape kit (forensic evidence of sexual assault) was undertaken.
Huguet obtained a confession from Donaldson but agreed not to go to the police since Donaldson promised me that he would get treatment for his drug, alcohol, and sexual issues. However, when she encountered Donaldson at a party in November 2011 and he laughed in her face, Huguet changed her mind. It was like a dam broke. It triggered this rush of buried feelings I didnt even know I had. Huguet reported the rape to Detective Guy Baker, who helped her record Donaldson confessing over the phone. Donaldson was arrested and charged in January 2012, and released on bail a week later. On the day of his release, it emerged that Hillary McLaughlin had accused Donaldson of sexual assault in 2008; Baker interviewed her to add strength to the case.
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