The film, titled “Sex Crimes Unit,” is the director Lisa F. Jackson’s take on the historic investigative body that was established in 1974, by Robert M. Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney at the time.Lisa F. Jackson, director of the HBO documentary Sex Crimes Unit, which premieres on HBO on June 20th, discusses her work and what she learned through her access to the District Attorney's Sex Crimes Unit.
According to a news release promoting the film’s debut, Mr. Morgenthau — a father of five daughters — said in a statement on the film: “If you’re robbed, you’ll get over it. But if a woman is raped, I don’t think she’ll ever get over it. So they’re entitled to special consideration and special handling in the criminal justice system.”
Jackson studied filmmaking at MIT with Richard Leacock and has directed and/or edited dozens of films for PBS including: Voices and Visions: Emily Dickinson, Jackson Pollock: Portrait, Through Madness (1993 NYC Emmy winner), The Creative Spirit, Storytellers, The Van Cliburn Piano Competition; Bill Moyers' Journal, the prize-winning series The Mind, and segments for Sesame Street and Live from Lincoln Center.
Ms. Jackson herself was the victim of an unsolved gang rape in 1976 in Washington. But while her interest in the subject comes out of her own experience, it was not her motivation, Ms. Jackson said.
Ms. Jackson said she believed she saved her life during the attack, in which she was jumped by three men in a parking lot. Surviving the ordeal let her know there was nothing she could not endure, she said. More than a decade later, after she learned that her rape kit was destroyed because of the statute of limitations, she wrote about her experience in Newsweek, giving voice to other silent rape survivors whom she refers to as “kind of an invisible army of survivors.”
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Myth #8: A rape trial is always a traumatic experience for the victim.
A clip from the film Sex Crimes Unit, an unprecedented look inside the New York District Attorney's unit dedicated to the prosecution of rape and sexual assault.
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