Yesterday's monsters : the Manson family cases and the illusion of parole /
"In 1969, the world was shocked by several murders committed by Charles Manson and his 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. So far, all of th...
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| Médium: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press
[2020]
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| On-line přístup: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvwcjj05 |
| Shrnutí: | "In 1969, the world was shocked by several murders committed by Charles Manson and his 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. So far, all of the living defendants remain behind bars. Relying on nearly fifty years' worth of parole hearing transcripts, as well as interviews and archival materials, Yesterday's Monsters invites readers into the opaque world of the California parole process-a realm of almost unfettered administrative discretion, prison programming inadequacies, and political pressures-and offers a fresh longitudinal perspective on extreme punishment"-- |
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| Fyzický popis: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliografie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520965287 0520965280 9780520291546 9780520291553 0520291549 0520291557 |