num_pages: 516
description: In March 1989 a group of teenage boys lured a mentally handicapped girl into a basement in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, and raped her. Glen Ridge was the kind of peaceful, affluent suburb many Americans dream about. The rapists were its most popular high school athletes. And although rumors of the crime quickly spread through the town, weeks passed before anyone saw fit to report it to the police. What made these boys capable of brutalizing a girl that some of them had known since childhood? Why did so many of their elders deny the rape and rally around its perpetrators? To solve this riddle, the Edgar award-winning author Bernard Lefkowitz conducted years of research and more than two hundred interviews. The result is not just a wrenching story of crime and punishment, but a hauntingly nuanced portrait of America's jock culture and the hidden world of unrestrained adolescent sexuality.
language: English
title: Our Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect Suburb
titlecomplete: Our Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect Suburb
characters: Christopher Archer, Kevin Scherzer, Kyle Scherzer, Bryant Grober
genres: Sociology, True Crime, Crime, History, Sports, Disability, Journalism, Social Science, Nonfiction, Mystery
ratings_count: 1269
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Fact Crime
publisher: Vintage Books