[Mobile ebook] The Toughest Beat: Politics, Punishment, and the Prison Officers Union in California (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)
·•●- Joshua Page ·•●-
| #237514 in Books | Oxford University Press | 2013-02-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 6.30 x1.00 x9.40l,1.10 | File Name: 0199985073 | 312 pages |
||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| A behind the scenes look at the creation of a political machine|By butteirish|While the subject matter is the California Correctional Peace Officers' Union, this book is really about how one union was able to create and wield the tools of influence and build one of the most feared political machines in California. The Toughest Beat gave me a unique behind the scenes look at h|||"Page is even-handed in his analysis...The Toughest Beat makes for fascinating reading." --Sacramento News and ||"By linking the penal field to politics, The Toughest Beat joins an emerging literature on the politics of punishing...Page ad
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 strid...
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