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Unreported
75% of people do not report sexual violence.
First, let that sink in. Second, ask the Why?
The answer is complex, and in UNREPORTED, author Kaley Roberts explores it from every angle.
This book contains the true stories of those who experienced sexual violence and didn’t report, in-depth research on those who did report and didn’t get the outcome they deserved, and interviews with experts. UNREPORTED is a work of persuasive nonfiction, a scientific study, and a memoir. It is an appeal to come together and discuss the unreported majority and, through strong prose, it determines a starting point for change in a system that desperately needs it.
Roberts takes readers with her as she uncovers why our current sexual violence response system isn’t working. She highlights how, instead of reporting, people seek out their own justice in the form of regained control, healing, and community.
UNREPORTED is for anyone who sees the power in shared stories—the power to heal, the power to transform, the power to build a better way forward.
First, let that sink in. Second, ask the Why?
The answer is complex, and in UNREPORTED, author Kaley Roberts explores it from every angle.
This book contains the true stories of those who experienced sexual violence and didn’t report, in-depth research on those who did report and didn’t get the outcome they deserved, and interviews with experts. UNREPORTED is a work of persuasive nonfiction, a scientific study, and a memoir. It is an appeal to come together and discuss the unreported majority and, through strong prose, it determines a starting point for change in a system that desperately needs it.
Roberts takes readers with her as she uncovers why our current sexual violence response system isn’t working. She highlights how, instead of reporting, people seek out their own justice in the form of regained control, healing, and community.
UNREPORTED is for anyone who sees the power in shared stories—the power to heal, the power to transform, the power to build a better way forward.
214 pages, Paperback
Published May 1, 2021
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December 3, 2023
Dedicated to all the front porches, balcony reflections, and upstairs talks that transformed into sacred spaces to perform acts of magical storytelling, connection, and healing.
So grateful to read such a beautiful, brave, and deeply vulnerable book and to make a new friend through sharing stories and connecting. Going to be passing my copy around to let it be the how to we’ve all needed
So grateful to read such a beautiful, brave, and deeply vulnerable book and to make a new friend through sharing stories and connecting. Going to be passing my copy around to let it be the how to we’ve all needed
May 11, 2023
Incredibly insightful analysis of why so many sexual assaults go unreported. The author is unparalleled in her ability to weave together interviews and research—the book educates like a law journal, but reads like creative nonfiction. She has a truly singular voice. I can’t recommend it enough.
September 26, 2024
In “Unreported,” Kaley Roberts explores a question that only becomes more dumbfounding and more essential year after year. The question, “Why don’t people report sexual assault” is mired in control structures, truth, fear and our culture’s prejudices about gender at large. Needless to say, it’s a mountainous topic to approach, and a courageous subject matter to explore in a long-form work like this.
Roberts picks the question apart like a journalist, surveying it from several vantage points. Some subjects are household names — global news stories given new context through Roberts’ thesis — and some detail regular people and their real stories, beautifully retold after authentic, empathetic conversations.
Most audacious of all are the true stories that Roberts tells about her own experiences and the immovable rock of support that family and community can offer. As anyone in today’s modern world knows, the big questions still linger, but works like “Unreported” remind us that it’s right and just to keep asking them.
Roberts picks the question apart like a journalist, surveying it from several vantage points. Some subjects are household names — global news stories given new context through Roberts’ thesis — and some detail regular people and their real stories, beautifully retold after authentic, empathetic conversations.
Most audacious of all are the true stories that Roberts tells about her own experiences and the immovable rock of support that family and community can offer. As anyone in today’s modern world knows, the big questions still linger, but works like “Unreported” remind us that it’s right and just to keep asking them.
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