Summary and Analysis of Missoula: Based on the Book by Jon Krakauer

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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Missoula tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Jon Krakauer’s book.

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This short summary and analysis of Missoula by Jon Krakauer includes:
 
•Historical context
•Case-by-case summaries
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•Detailed timeline of key events
•Important quotes
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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 media—and the Department of Justice.
 
Centering around five cases of sexual assault at the University of Montana, Jon Krakauer’s 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.  
 
The summary and analysis in this ebook are intended to complement your reading experience and bring you closer to a great work of nonfiction.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Feb 21, 2017
• ISBN: 9781504044219

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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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The summary and analysis in this ebook are meant to complement your reading experience and bring you closer to a great work of nonfiction. This ebook is not intended as a substitute for the work that it summarizes and analyzes, and it is not authorized, approved, licensed, or endorsed by the work’s author or publisher. Worth Books makes no representations or warranties with respect to the accuracy or completeness of the contents of this ebook.

Contents

Context

Overview

Case One: Allison Huguet

Case Two: Kelsey Belnap

Case Three: Kerry Barrett

Case Four: Kaitlynn Kelly

Case Five: Cecelia Washburn

Direct Quotes and Analysis

Trivia

What’s That Word?

Critical Response

About Jon Krakauer

For Your Information

Bibliography

Copyright

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 university’s and NYPD’s failure to bring her rapist to justice. Sulkowicz’s 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 Krakauer’s 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