steubenville
I stayed up all night screen-grabbing tweets that joked about raping and urinating on a girl they thought might be dead. Welcome to Steubenville.
prison
Ever since I was convicted of 14 crimes -- all white-collar-type financial offenses -- I've been living at the maximum-security York Correctional Institution.
amanda knox
If I ever made crass or asinine comments about Amanda Knox's attractiveness, or propensity for murder, or very bad ideas, on Twitter, I shamefully retract them.
murder
I was in my apartment when I heard screaming and gunshots coming from somewhere in my building.
Amanda Lauren in

Jan 31, 2013 at 1:00pm | 115 comments

friendship
Gigi knew all my secrets. And I thought I knew all of hers.
sexual assault
If you're wondering why survivors of sexual assault don't want to report it, this is why.
death penalty
My case involved Jim Fayed, a wealthy gold trader who was accused of the particularly brutal murder-for-hire of his estranged wife Pam in a Los Angeles parking garage.
crime
This, right here, is what we talk about when we talk about “rape culture,” that a group of men should be struck senseless in the face of rape, rather than being moved to step in or get to safety and call the police.
ihtm raw
The next day, they arrested Paul. They didn’t really care about what happened to me, but they needed Paul’s fingerprints and they couldn’t get a court order for them. His fingerprint ended up matching a bloody fingerprint that was at the scene.
murder
In the newspaper clippings I would eventually dig up from the library, the reporter refers to his home address: my home address.
robbery
I'm jumpy around passing cars and men on the street. I fall asleep with a low voice telling me not to scream ringing in my ears.
groping
The assault against me was the first in a series of 14 unique attacks against women in and around my neighborhood over the last three months. Police have released a sketch of the man’s face, but no arrests have been made.
crime
Apparently the secret to surviving a hijacking is not knowing it’s happening until it’s all over.