Yesterday's Monsters

The Manson Family Cases and the Illusion of Parole

AvHadar Aviram

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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In 1969, the world was shocked by a series of murders committed by Charles Manson and his “family” of followers. Although the defendants were sentenced to death in 1971, their sentences were commuted to life with parole in 1972; since 1978, they have been regularly attending parole hearings. Today all of the living defendants remain behind bars. Relying on nearly fifty years of parole hearing transcripts, as well as interviews and archival materials, Hadar Aviram invites readers into the opaque world of the California parole process—a realm of almost unfettered administrative discretion, prison programming inadequacies, high-pitched emotions, and political pressures. Yesterday’s Monsters offers a fresh longitudinal perspective on extreme punishment.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-02-18
Mått:152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt:408 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:University of California Press
Antal sidor:296
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520291553

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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.

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"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."

Innehållsförteckning

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