Valena Beety is a professor of law at Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law and the deputy director of the Academy for Justice, a criminal justice center at the law school that connects research with policy reform. Visit her online at valenabeety.com.
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When Valena Beety first became a federal prosecutor, her goal was to protect victims, especially women, from cycles of violence. What she discovered was that not only did prosecutions often fail to help victims, they frequently relied on false information... SEE MORE