After learning of the backlog of an estimated hundreds of thousand of rape kits untested for DNA languishing in storage facilities across the country, Michelle Bowdler starts to wonder if her own rape kit is one of them. How could this backlog have happened? How many rapists were able to continue inflicting violence because their victims' kits were never tested? We will never have definitive answers. However, for one question, would this kind of negligence have happened for any other violent crimes? The answer is an unambiguous, No. Throughout history rape has been trivialized and even celebrated. While modern-day laws recognize rape as a crime, what is that value of those laws if the ones enforcing them continue show little regard for the laws and the victims?Bowdler offers a long-overdue examination of the criminal justice system's, and society's, treatment of rape and it's victims. This book is comprised of her own personal experience of being failed by investigators and also extensive research into failures throughout the system and by society at large. This book is an eye-opening read for myself and, I am sure, many others. I highly recommend it.