Hadar Aviram is Thomas Miller Professor of Law at the University of California Hastings College of the Law. She is the author of Cheap on Crime: Recession-Era Politics and the Transformation of American Punishment and a coeditor of The Legal Process and the Promise of Justice. She is a frequent media commentator and runs the California Correctional Crisis blog.

"As California rethinks the roles of imprisonment and parole in this COVID-19, post-Three Strikes era, Yesterday’s Monsters has some lessons for today."

• List of IllustrationsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 • The California Parole Process2 • The Manson Family Cases and the Birth of the“Extreme-Punishment Trifecta”3 • The Triumph of Helter Skelter: How the Manson FamilyCases Came to Represent the Sui Generis Ultimate Evil4 • Revisiting the Past: From Facts to Emotion inUnderstanding the Crime of Commitment5 • Reinventing the Present: Crafting and Interpretingthe Inmate’s Prison Experience6 • Reimagining the Future: The Past Casts Its Shadow onthe Inmate’s Postrelease Plans7 • In BardoNotesIndex

Hadar Aviram is Thomas Miller Professor of Law at the University of California Hastings College of the Law. She is the author of Cheap on Crime: Recession-Era Politics and the Transformation of American Punishment and a coeditor of The Legal Process and the Promise of Justice. She is a frequent media commentator and runs the California Correctional Crisis blog.

"As California rethinks the roles of imprisonment and parole in this COVID-19, post-Three Strikes era, Yesterday’s Monsters has some lessons for today."

• List of IllustrationsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 • The California Parole Process2 • The Manson Family Cases and the Birth of the“Extreme-Punishment Trifecta”3 • The Triumph of Helter Skelter: How the Manson FamilyCases Came to Represent the Sui Generis Ultimate Evil4 • Revisiting the Past: From Facts to Emotion inUnderstanding the Crime of Commitment5 • Reinventing the Present: Crafting and Interpretingthe Inmate’s Prison Experience6 • Reimagining the Future: The Past Casts Its Shadow onthe Inmate’s Postrelease Plans7 • In BardoNotesIndex

Hadar Aviram is Thomas Miller Professor of Law at the University of California Hastings College of the Law. She is the author of Cheap on Crime: Recession-Era Politics and the Transformation of American Punishment and a coeditor of The Legal Process and the Promise of Justice. She is a frequent media commentator and runs the California Correctional Crisis blog.

"As California rethinks the roles of imprisonment and parole in this COVID-19, post-Three Strikes era, Yesterday’s Monsters has some lessons for today."

• List of IllustrationsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 • The California Parole Process2 • The Manson Family Cases and the Birth of the“Extreme-Punishment Trifecta”3 • The Triumph of Helter Skelter: How the Manson FamilyCases Came to Represent the Sui Generis Ultimate Evil4 • Revisiting the Past: From Facts to Emotion inUnderstanding the Crime of Commitment5 • Reinventing the Present: Crafting and Interpretingthe Inmate’s Prison Experience6 • Reimagining the Future: The Past Casts Its Shadow onthe Inmate’s Postrelease Plans7 • In BardoNotesIndex