Unreasonable Women: Three Stories of Violence, Imprisonment, and Extraordinary Survival

Chosen as a Boston Globe Recommended Summer Read and CrimeReads Best True Crime Books of the Month

A groundbreaking account of how the legal system punishes those it purports to protect, told through the stories of three unforgettable women

When award-winning journalist Justine van der Leun began researching the issue of criminalized survival, she was astonished to see women being imprisoned for protecting themselves against abuse. This sparked an intensive, years-long investigation into how...