This book is a masterpiece of investigative reporting and heart rending storytelling.

At a time when we are actually considering doing away with juvenile justice and sending children to adult court and making them vulnerable to capital punishment, every voting citizen in what is left of America must read this book.

Careers are made on the backs of children who are abused more thoroughly in institutions taxpayers support for their "care" than had ever been abused at home. Most of these children were homeless to begin with, neglected and abandoned. Juvenile justice is supposed to be a safe harbor in a storm while lives are sorted out and treatment applied, but nothing could be further from the truth.

Kenneth Wooden includes a chapter on Charles Manson which this book is best known for, but there is much, much more rich territory to explore in the pages of this masterpiece, including jobs, kickbacks, and million dollar contracts.

This book just recently was reprinted as a second edition. It was out of print for awhile. I have seen it referred to in so many other books that I've read that I can't tell you how valuable the research is between its pages.

Get your copy now while you can. It is one of the most important books you will read all year.

...geminiwalker

Great one-stop-shopping source for balanced information on parricide. Not as useful for the doomsday "something is wrong with the youth of today" readers.