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The toughest beat : politics, punishment, and the Prison Officers' Union in California / Joshua Page.
LIBRA HV9475.C2 P34 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Page, Joshua
- Series:
- Studies in crime and public policy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criminal justice, Administration of--California.
- Criminal justice, Administration of.
- Prison administration.
- Corrections.
- California.
- California Crime Prevention Officers Association.
- Prisons--California.
- Prisons.
- Corrections--United States.
- Prison administration--California.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 293 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- Welcome to the "toughest beat"
- The birth of the "correctional officer" and his union
- A politically realistic Union
- Power by proxy : the strategic alliance between prison officers and crime victims
- Three strikes and the anchor of punitive segregation
- Monopolizing the beat : the fight against prison privatization
- Who rules the beat? The battle over managerial rights
- Changing of the guard : a new direction for the CCPOA and California.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780195384055
- 0195384059
- OCLC:
- 649827228
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