num_pages: 302
description: Nobody's Victim is an unflinching look at a hidden world most people don't know existsone of stalking blackmail and sexual violence online and offand the incredible story of how one lawyer determined to fight back turned her own hell into a revolution. We are all a moment away from having our life overtaken by somebody hell-bent on our destruction. That grim realitygleaned from personal experience and twenty years of trauma workis a fundamental principle of Carrie Goldberg's cutting-edge victims' rights law firm.Riveting and an essential timely conversation-starter Nobody's Victim invites readers to join Goldberg on the front lines of the war against sexual violence and privacy violations as she fights for revenge porn and sextortion laws; uncovers major Title IX violations; and sues the hell out of tech companies schools and powerful sexual predators. Her battleground is the courtroom; her crusade is to transform clients from victims into warriors.In gripping detail Goldberg shares the diabolical ways her clients are attacked and how she through her unique combination of advocacy badass relentlessness risk-taking and client-empowerment pursues justice for them all. There are stories about a woman whose ex-boyfriend made fake bomb threats in her name and caused a national panic; a fifteen-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted on school grounds and then suspended when she reported the attack; and a man whose ex-boyfriend used a dating app to send more than 1200 men to ex's home and work for sex. With breathtaking honesty Goldberg also shares her own shattering story about why she began her work and the uphill battle of building a business.While her clients are a diverse groupfrom every gender sexual orientation age class race religion occupation and backgroundthe offenders are not. They are highly predictable. Goldberg offers a taxonomy of the four types of offenders she encounters most often at her firm: assholes psychos pervs and trolls. If we recognize the patterns of these perpetrators she explains we know how to fight back.Deeply personal yet achingly universal Nobody's Victim is a bold and much-needed analysis of victim protection in the internet era. It is an urgent warning of a coming crisis a predictor of imminent danger and a weapon to take back control and protect ourselvesboth online and off.
language: English
title: Nobody's Victim: Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs, and Trolls
publisher: Plume