Charles Manson Research Paper

Charles Manson had a way of picking up on people’s weaknesses and fears, and used it against them. He preyed on vulnerability and, as Linda James said, he offered them wealth and perfect relationships (Fennel, 1993). And, although his claims were extraordinary, he was able to attract a good amount of followers.

At the age of twenty-six Charles Manson was sent to the US penitentiary. By 1959 Charles had been committed of rape, drug use, pimping, stealing, and fraud. Manson was emotionally insecure and was lacking attention.

He believed that waging a war between races was the right thing to do. Any sane person would be able to tell that waging war is wrong in this aspect. However, due to the Anti-social Personality Disorder, Charles Manson was unable to see the error in his ways. Also, those with Anti-social Personality Disorder then to exploit those around them. In the case of Manson, he manipulated his followers into committing murder for him by using religion. This trait could also be connected to the superiority complex that is often found in those with Anti-social Personality Disorder. Those with this disorder may consider themselves superior to those around them. This was evident in Manson as he claimed to be both the reincarnation of Jesus Christ and Satan. This sense of superiority over his followers allowed Manson to manipulate them as he saw fit and continuously fueled his delusions of grandeur. Manson fit other symptoms that fit this disease as well. Manson undoubtedly has Anti-social Personality Disorder.

Charles Manson became known worldwide after helping commit numerous gruesome murders near Hollywood, California. Although, Manson’s legal troubles did not start from that point, he had been in and out of institutions and prisons since the age of twelve, for many different reasons. “For, let out of prison in 1967, the year of ‘the summer of love,’ he became the most hated and vilified figure in America, a symbol of everything that had gone wrong in the ‘60s” (Smith). Even though his release from prison was short lived, he managed to do a lot of damage during his time of freedom. Manson received a life sentence in May of 1970 for the nine murders he helped execute (Baughman). Charles Manson is a well recognized name across the United States.

incarceration of Yankee prisoners. He managed to escape from that prison; however, as he was

Before arriving at Alcatraz, Capone had been a master at manipulating his environment at the Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta. Despite strict convictions from the courts, Capone was always able to persuade his keepers into procuring his every whim, and

On June 9th, 1959, a 14 year old boy named Steven Truscott was seen giving 12 year old Lynne Harper a ride on his bike, not knowing that he would be accused and found guilty of sexually assaulting and strangling her to death. For the next 50 years he would seek justice for being wrongfully imprisoned and finally get it. Steven Truscott was a popular and athletic teenage boy who lived with both his parents and his three siblings in the Ontario town of Clinton. Lynne Harper was a girl who also lived with both of her parents as well as her younger brother, whose life ended shortly.

Kelley escaped from Peak Behavioral Health Systems in New Mexico in June 2012, months after being accused of abusing his ex-wife and her child, according to documents from the El Paso Police Department obtained by CNN affiliate KVIA.

As evident by the documents provided by Navos, Marty was detained by King County Corrections on 12/12/16 for assaulting his mother (strangling her and pushing her down into a chair). While in jail, he was found to be psychotic (delusional, hallucinating and aggressive) and was transferred to Rainbow Valley Inpatient Involuntary Psychiatric Unit from 12/12/16-12/27/16. After he was found to be stable Rainbow Valley released him back to King County Corrections and then subsequently back into the community. A day later Marty went to the Rainbow Valley emergency room stating he was suicidal without a plan. Rainbow Valley sent Marty to Navos on 12/28/17 where according to the documents he presented as disorganized, confused, delusional, hyper religious, and was responding to internal stimuli. The documents stated he had poor reality disorientation and no insight into delusions. Additionally, Marty was peeing in cartons, on peer’s beds, and smearing blood on

His mother was a criminal and a prostitute whom Charles chased after for love and affection most of his childhood. Charles ran away from almost every foster home and reform school he went to during his childhood. A majority of his young adult life was spent either in prison, or committing petty crimes. At the age of twenty, Manson went to California, and, again, spent a good deal of time in prison. It was in the year 1967, Charles begin to recruit the first female members of his family using his manipulative mind, and acid.

As I’ve said previously, the life of Charles Manson revolved around interpersonal violence. From an early age Manson was the victim of child neglect – his mother (Kathleen Maddox) would leave him with neighbors, “for an hour, then disappear for days or weeks,”

To me it takes great self-assurance, audacity and credence to pull of such a tremendous trigger and Manson not only had gone beyond such measures but also managed to lure others into his winding spiral too. Manson might seem like an unresolved puzzle almost all the time, but on the other hand, people have understood how one should live in balance with planet earth through him. He founded the word ATWA, which stands for Air, Trees, Water, Animals and All The Way Alive. Manson started preaching about how humans are going against the law of nature in almost all of his parole interviews with such confidence. He even wrote a letter to the former president of the United States, Ronald Reagan to end the war between mankind and fight against pollution as Manson himself saw the

Charles Manson ended up on the streets and this led to his life of crime. By 1952, Charles had spent 17 years, which was half his life, imprisoned. He had 8 assault charges already. While in prison, Charles Manson was known as a model inmate and he even got released against his wishes because he felt he could not adjust to the world. (Rosenberg, 2009) He also fathered two children, one by his ex wife and one by another woman.

He's been the prison twice now, though one was a juvenile detention center when he was still considered a kid due to his age. The second time - that was definitely a legitimate prison. He remembers it quite clearly because for a month there, he was bunking in the same cell as Crow, a boy he had once shared a foster home with. That had been interesting, considering both were there for separate accounts of theft and breaking and entering.

Charles Manson is notoriously connected to the brutal border of Sharon Tate and other Hollywood residents. Born Charles Milles Maddox to sixteen year old Kathleen Maddox, Charles was born into mayhem. Kathleen was an alcoholic and a prostitute; she was not very accepting of her son and showed him no love. Kathleen married William Mason and quickly that marriage dissolved. Fighting for his mother’s attention Charles left his home and lived on the streets. Manson began to do petty crime to get by. Charles Manson spent about half of his life in prison; he was noted for being a model prisoner. In 1955 Charles got married to a seventeen year old and moved to California. She became pregnant and soon after Manson began his life of crime,