I had a special interest in hearing more about the book, and I asked Susan to tell me more about it. Nobody is prepared for being a victim, having a child murdered or being raped, shot, robbed, or hurt. Violations like these are unthinkable. And yet these crimes happen dozens of times every day. Our society tends to focus all of its vast resources on the Criminal Justice end of the crime, the courts, the judges and juries, prisons and punishment and not repairing the lives of victims.
Victims of crime are a forgotten part of our society.
Among the many things missing for them is the sense of being in control over a traumatic situation. The public has always been hungry for down and dirty story-telling. The phenomenon of graphic reporting is as old as time. In the 21st century, however, we have many more techniques to get information and spew it out. The blizzard of information is greater than at any time in history.