Yesterday`s Monsters – The Manson Family Cases and the Illusion of Parole

"Filling an enormous vacuum in the literature, Aviram draws on fifty years of transcripts showcasing the Board of Parole Hearings' interviews of the Manson Family members. Her book lucidly conveys how the magnitude of their crimes functioned as a crucial catalyst for statutory changes that measurably harshened criminal penalties while narrowing the prospects for parole release in the ensuing decades."--Edward E. Rhine, Robina Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, University of Minnesota Law School

"Yesterday's Monsters is three remarkable books at once: a compelling work of late twentieth-century social history, a sober and scholarly analysis of the flaws in our parole system, and an enlightened program for sensible reform."--Robert Weisberg, Professor of Law, Stanford University