Titres dans Crimes et agressions sexuels

Bloomsbury presents The Good Girls written and read by Sonia Faleiro. ‘Narrative reportage at its best. Just extraordinary’ Fatima Bhutto 'A page-turner, a feminist text, and an essential read that is deeply empathetic' Deepa Anappara, author of Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line A masterly and...

She said she was raped; police said she lied. It was an easy case to close until two detectives cracked it back open. On 11 August 2008, 18-year-old Marie reported that a masked man had broken into her home and raped her. Within days, police - and even those closest to Marie - became suspicious of her story: details of the crime just didn’t seem plausible. Confronted with the seeming inconsistencies, Marie broke down and said her story was a fabrication - a bid for attention. The police convicted her of making a false report. She was vilified as a liar. 

"Highly recommended on audio for listeners seeking true-crime with a focus on structural inequities, survivors, and artfully crafted narratives." -- Booklist “The best story I’ve read in a long, long time." —Lacy Crawford, author of Notes on a Silencing “Krouse’s vivid and original...

At 45, Lucky finally feels like she has achieved her dreams – a lovely life with a successful career, beautiful son, adoring husband, two dogs and house in the ‘burbs. But when Lucky’s mother and 100-year-old grandfather violently attack her home, it sends her spiraling out of control. Her delicately crafted double life begins to collapse, and she is finally forced to confront decades of terror, abuse and secrets she has been hiding from everyone – including herself. Lucky breaks the silence of generations, threatening her sanity and the safety of those she so carefully protected.

For forty years David Meagher harboured a secret. Then in mid 2018 a text message from an old school friend forced him to confront his past and finally deal with it. Secrets and Lies is a story about child sexual abuse. The culture that enabled it. How the perpetrator groomed his victims. How it...

En 1989 la industria delespectáculo posicionó a Gloria Trevi como un fenómeno musical que marcaría la historia del entretenimiento mexicano, con una irreverencia no vista en los escenarios hasta ese momento. Pero lo que no se analizaba —porque no se sabía a fondo, estaba escondido de manera perspicaz o no estábamos preparados como sociedad para entenderlo— es que detrás se encontraba tal vez uno de los casos más crueles de la historia del espectáculo, no sólo en nuestro país, sino en el mundo entero.

Maureen Sullivan was pas twaalf jaar oud toen ze haar leraar toevertrouwde dat haar stiefvader haar mishandelde en seksueel misbruikte. Binnen vierentwintig uur werd Maureen uit haar huis en bij haar geliefde oma vandaan gehaald en naar het Magdalenawashuis in New Ross, Wexford gestuurd, dat werd geleid door de kloosterorde The Good Shepherds.

Thirty-two case files. Decades of murder. Predators who thought the truth would stay buried. Across American highways, suburban streets, forgotten properties, quiet neighborhoods, and crime scenes left cold for years, killers moved through ordinary life while families waited in agony for answers. American True Crime Files investigates thirty-two disturbing cases involving serial killers, calculated murderers, unidentified predators, missing women, buried evidence, wrongful convictions, forensic breakthroughs, and investigations that refused to die.

Leading criminologist Katherine Ramsland has had the unique perspective of experiencing true crime culture over the course of three decades as both an observer and a participant. As a teenager, a series of murders of young women and the subsequent conviction of a college student sparked her...

From Christina Lamb, the coauthor of the bestselling I Am Malala and an award-winning journalist—an essential, groundbreaking examination of how women experience war. In Our Bodies, Their Battlefields, longtime intrepid war correspondent Christina Lamb makes us witness to the lives of women in...

In this instant New York Times bestselling account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost. Inspiration for the HBO Max streaming documentary...

At 18, Callie's encounter with Reed, a brooding and arty student four years her senior, begins a youthful infatuation, a casual "thing." But as their relationship deepens, what once seemed like innocent passion soon morphs into a cycle of manipulation, control, and violence. Callie shares the complexity of falling in love with someone who also hurt her — emotionally, physically, and sexually.

A healthy twelve-year-old dies inside his principal’s remote cabin. The school board allows that principal to return to the classroom. This was the reality faced by Jeremy Bell’s family and friends. From the beginning, they questioned the claim that Jeremy had simply died of a heart attack. Their search for answers met resistance, delay, and silence. Years later, a new sheriff and a new team of investigators reopened the case. They discovered that nearly a gallon of chloroform had been shipped to Edgar Friedrichs Jr.

For over four decades, Cynthia L. Clack, a Texas Board Certified Family Law specialist, has been uncovering a disturbing pattern. She’s consistently observed how court outcomes failed to reflect the existing evidence in cases involving child sexual abuse, trafficking, and coercion. Again and again, investigations stalled, decisions were reversed, and critical voices were ignored. The result is a system where the most vulnerable are too often left unprotected.

The twelve cases in this volume span half a century and four countries, and they turn on a single unsettling truth: the evidence was usually there long before anyone was willing to read it. These weren't crimes of a single hot second. They were choices, made and remade by people who had every chance to stop and chose instead to keep going.

Please Save Me is a story of the sickening abuse to which a father subjected his daughter, which led to her giving birth to two children conceived from that abuse. Mandy's father was seen as a pillar of society but no one knew what went on behind closed doors. From the age of 11, he raped his daughter four times a week, like clockwork, forcing himself on her even when she was pregnant. After being dismissed and ignored for years, Mandy finally found someone to believe her and help bring her father to justice.

El libro en el cual se basa la serie "El castillo", de Mabel Lozano cuenta por primera vez la verdadera historia de lo que hay detrás de la prostitución de la mano de un testigo privilegiado, Miguel, apodado el Músico, un proxeneta que ha confesado con pelos y señales cómo ha evolucionado el negocio de la prostitución en España y todo el mundo, desde principios de los años noventa hasta hoy, con el lucro de la trata y secuestro de mujeres de deuda a las que su única salida era la prostitución.

#1 New York Times bestseller From the world's #1 bestselling author, Filthy Rich—the book that exposed Jeffrey Epstein’s shocking exploits as a multi-millionaire pedophile—now with an updated Author's Note and Afterword. “Much more than a true crime book.” —Town & Country Charismatic...

WINNER OF THE DAVITT AWARD FOR NONFICTION WINNER OF THE NSW PREMIER’S LITERARY AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE The explosive, behind-the-scenes account of the criminal trial of the century. I understand – and sympathise with – the feeling you might have that you already know...

The inside story of the global megachurch and its charismatic leader, Brian Houston. In 2023 the curtain finally came down on Brian Houston. The rock star of Pentecostalism, former Global Senior Pastor of Hillsong Church, was acquitted of concealing his father's sexual abuse of a minor, but it...