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Informationen zum Autor Theodore Hamm has written about criminal justice for The Los Angeles Times! The Nation! American Quarterly! and Souls. He currently teaches in the Metropolitan Studies Program at New York University. Klappentext "Fast paced and elegantly crafted, Theodore Hamm's Rebel and a Cause demands our attention. This deft historical analysis of the famous Chessman case and of the entire spectrum of political and cultural struggle surrounding capital punishment should be read by lay people and experts alike. Rigorously researched, superbly argued, this book -unfortunately - becomes all the more relevant with each new execution."—Christian Parenti, author of Lockdown America: Police and Prison in the Age of Crisis "Historians of the American 1960s have begun to attend to the previously-neglected topic of "crime in the streets." In the long run, the demand from the Right for "Law and Order!" may have done more to shape the history of subsequent decades than the better-known demands from the Left for "Freedom Now!" and "Peace in Vietnam!" In his crisply-written and subtly nuanced study Rebel and a Cause, Theodore Hamm shows how California death row inmate Caryl Chessman became the unlikely flashpoint for a series of passionate confrontations between advocates and opponents of the death penalty, as well as between the New Right, the New Left, and the liberal establishment."—Maurice Isserman, author of America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s "This book is a must read for anyone interested in the current death penalty debate."—George T. Davis, former counsel to Caryl Chessman Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Antithesis of Reform 2. The Sex Crimes of the Red Light Bandit (1948-1954) 3. The Rehabilitation of a Criminal "Genius" (1954-1960) 4. A Tale of Two Protests (1950-1960) 5. Chessman's Ghost (1960-1974) Conclusion: 1974 and Beyond Notes Index ...
