'A False Report' Highlights How Women Who Report Sexual Assault Are Treated

Published February 6, 2018 at 4:23 PM EST

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ken Armstrong about the book A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America, which he wrote with T. Christian Miller, about rape and the criminal justice system.

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