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An English court in 1736 described rape as an accusation

“easily to be made and hard to be proved, and harder to be defended

by the party accused, though never so innocent. ”To prove the

crime, the law required a woman to physically resist, to put up a

“hue and cry,” as evidence of her unwillingness. Beginning in the

1970s, however, feminist and victim-advocacy groups began changing

attitudes toward rape so the crime is now seen as violent in

itself: the legal definition of rape now includes everything from

the sadistic serial rapist to the eighteen-year-old who has

consensual sex with a fourteen-year-old.

This inclusiveness means there are now more rapists among us. And

more of rape’s camp followers: the prison-makers, the community

watchdogs, law-and-order politicians, and the real-crime/real-time

entertainment industry. Vanessa Place examines the ambiguity of

rape law by presenting cases where guilt lies, but lies uneasily,

and leads into larger ethical questions of what defines guilt, what

is justice, and what is considered just punishment. Assuming a

society can and must be judged by the way it treats its most

despicable members, The Guilt Project looks at the way the American

legal system defines, prosecutes, and punishes sex offenders, how

this Dateline NBC justice has transformed our conception of who is

guilty and how they ought to be treated, and how this has come to

undo our deeper humanity

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Vanessa Place is a writer and criminal appellate attorney

practicing in Los Angeles. She has worked on the appeals of more

than a thousand indigent felons, specializing in sex offenders and

sexually violent predators. She is the author of Dies: A Sentence,

a fifty-thousand-word, one-sentence prose poem; the post-conceptual

novel La Medusa; and, in collaboration with appropriation poet

Robert Fitterman, Notes on Conceptualisms. Place is co-founder of

Les Figues Press, described by critic Terry Castle as “an elegant

vessel for experimental American writing of an extraordinarily

assured and ingenious sort.”

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“A California appellate attorney looks at crime and punishment

under our sex laws… Place expands the notion of guilt, examining

its other dimensions—factual, ethical, moral—and asks whether we’ve

allowed dubious science, conflicting cultural messages and

out-of-control political passions to distort our sex laws...Place

detects something desperate in all this, and in richly allusive,

frequently witty prose, she asks important questions about what it

is exactly we want from our criminal laws. A sophisticated, brave

look at a topic that too often provokes merely panic, prejudice and

posturing.”—Kirkus Reviews

"A brilliant criminal defense attorney, Vanessa Place has produced

a deeply personal yet meticulously researched argument that demands

serious consideration by policy makers, journalists, social

scientists, and informed citizens. For some, her book will inspire

a thorough rethinking of how they understand rapists and their

places in the criminal justice system. For others, the candid

accounts and bold proposals in The Guilt Project will

inspire mainly frustration or even anger. But no honest reader can

deny the special insights she provides from her years of experience

and careful reflection."—Barry Glassner, author of The Culture

of Fear and Professor of Sociology, University of Southern

California

"Judging by The Guilt Project, Vanessa Place is one tough

defense attorney, though her wicked prose implies at times the soul

of an angry poet. Her thesis that injustice is routinely

perpetrated on sex criminals will not be popular—which is why her

book should be read by anyone interested in criminology,

specifically including legislators, judges, attorneys and

prosecutors." —Robert Mayer, author of The Dreams of Ada: A True

Story of Murder, Obsession, and a Small Town