The Toughest Beat
Politics, Punishment, and the Prison Officers Union in California
Series: Studies in Crime and Public Policy;
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Product details:
- Edition number Reprint
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 1 February 2013
- ISBN 9780199985074
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages312 pages
- Size 231x155x22 mm
- Weight 499 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 13 photographs, 11 charts and graphs 0
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Short description:
The Toughest Beat uses the rise of the California Correctional Peace Officers Association, the state's powerful prison officers' union, to explore the actors and interests that have created, shaped, and protected the Golden State's sprawling, dysfunctional penal system -- and how it might yet be transformed.
MoreLong description:
In America today, one in every hundred adults is behind bars. As our prison population has exploded, 'law and order' interest groups have also grown -- in numbers and political clout. In The Toughest Beat, Joshua Page argues in crisp, vivid prose that the Golden State's prison boom fueled the rise of one of the most politically potent and feared interest groups in the nation: the California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA). As it made great strides for its members, the prison officers' union also fundamentally altered the composition and orientation of the penal field. The Toughest Beat is essential reading for anyone concerned with contemporary crime and punishment, interest group politics, and public sector labor unions.
Page is even-handed in his analysis...The Toughest Beat makes for fascinating reading.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Abbreviations
Key Dates
1. Welcome to the "Toughest Beat"
2. The Birth of the "Correctional Officer" and His Union
3. A Politically Realistic Union
4. Power by Proxy: The Strategic Alliance Between Prison Officers and Crime Victims
5. Three Strikes and the Anchor of Punitive Segregation
6. Monopolizing the Beat: The Fight against Prison Privatization
7. Who Rules the Beat? The Battle over Managerial Rights
8. Changing of the Guard: A New Direction for the CCPOA and California?
Methodological Appendix
Selected Bibliography
