A review by danakaddd123
Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law by Preet Bharara

5.0

I loved Doing Justice, easily one of my favorite books of the year so far. I felt chills countless times. Bharara's commitment to justice and loving respect for his colleagues is admirable. It is also not a memoir in the strictest sense of the word. More lessons from stories, usually not his own. But I do have one problem with this book, when Bharara is talking about arresting sex traffickers, he talks about how his office does not arrest either "prostitutes" or "Johns" even though he could. I am wondering whether his word choice was improper because surely he is not suggesting that women who were forced into sexual slavery would be considered criminals by the law. He said that he considered them "victims," to be fair, but you simply cannot pat yourself on the back for not arresting victims of sex trafficking. While I do not think that he meant to sound so callous and insensitive, I VERY strongly believe that he should have made a statement of support for these women and maybe mentioned what happened to them after the traffickers were arrested (rehabilitation hopefully but really anything would be better than "well... we didn't arrest them"), especially considering his words in a later chapter about victims being disregarded by members of law enforcement.