Best-selling author Jon Krakauer ('Into the Wild') is taking on the controversial topic of campus rape in his latest book. 'Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town', due out on April 21, specifically addresses the high number of sexual assaults at the University of Montana in recent years, and how many of them were mishandled by either the university or local authorities.

The Department of Justice investigated 350 sexual assaults reported to Missoula police between January 2008 and May 2012. This staggering number is sadly typical on many American campuses. A DOJ report released in December of 2014 estimates 110,000 women between the ages of eighteen and twenty-four are raped each year.

Krakauer reportedly will chronicle the devastating experiences of several women in Missoula in an attempt to make clear why rape is so prevalent on American campuses, and why rape victims are so reluctant to report assault. Krakauer addresses "the nights when they were raped; their fear and self-doubt in the aftermath; the way they were treated by the police, prosecutors, defense attorneys; the public vilification and private anguish; their bravery in pushing forward and what it cost them."

Krakauer's new book will come in the dawn of Time magazine's cover story last year which addressed Missoula, MT as a college town once known as "America's Rape Capital" and how it is now working to repair its image. According to Time, the university's old reputation seems to be changing now, thanks to specific measures taken after a federal investigation. Read more about specific steps U of M has taken to lose this reputation.

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