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Rebel and a Cause: Caryl Chessman and the Politics of the Death Penalty in Postwar California, 1948-1974
Theodore Hamm
Rebel and a Cause: Caryl Chessman and the Politics of the Death Penalty in Postwar California, 1948-1974
Theodore Hamm
Caryl Chessman is used to examining how political debates about criminal justice ignited postwar California. This text places the case in a cultural and historical context, relating it to histories of prison reform, the anti-death penalty movement and, the popularization of psychology.
220 pages, 1 b/w photograph
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | November 20, 2001 |
ISBN13 | 9780520224285 |
Publishers | University of California Press |
Pages | 220 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 15 mm · 318 g |