Emily Bazelon is critical of Jon Krakauer's book about campus rape.

A review in the NYT of "Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town":

The university had used the standard of �preponderance of the evidence� (or more likely than not) to find Johnson culpable, but the standard for a criminal conviction is higher � beyond a reasonable doubt.... Krakauer presents [the acquittal] not as a reflection of the differing evidentiary standard, and a jury�s best effort to resolve a difficult and confusing set of facts, but as a bitter failure of the adversarial process....

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