Rebel and a cause : Caryl Chessman and the politics of the death penalty in postwar California, 1948-1974 / [electronic resource]
Hamm, Theodore,1966-
Berkeley, [Calif.] ; London : University of California Press,
2001.
Theodore Hamm uses the 1960 execution of Caryl Chessman as a lens for examining how politics and debates about criminal justice became a volatile mix that ignited postwar California.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-204) and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Theodore Hamm uses the 1960 execution of Caryl Chessman as a lens for examining how politics and debates about criminal justice became a volatile mix that ignited postwar California.
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Chessman, Caryl, 1921-1960.
Capital punishment
Death row inmates
Capital punishment
Death row inmates
Social Welfare & Social Work
Social Sciences
Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency