On the Wrong Side: How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence
The debate over how institutions should manage sexual violence is more heated than ever, but hardly anyone knows how organizations actually decide what to do after a sexual assault is reported. In On the Wrong Side, Nicole Bedera observed and interviewed survivors, perpetrators, and administrators at an American university to get a look inside the cases that are usually shielded from public view. Her research exposes the structures that predictably punish survivors who come forward in service of protecting—or even rewarding—their perpetrators. In doing so, she reveals that the systems tasked with ending gender inequality only intensify it, upending survivors’ lives and threatening the degrees that brought them to college in the first place.
