The Toughest Beat: Politics, Punishment, and the Prison Officers Union in California (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)
"Page is even-handed in his analysis...The Toughest Beatmakes for fascinating reading." --Sacramento News and Review"By linking the penal field to politics,The Toughest Beatjoins an emerging literature on the politics of punishing...Page advances this literature by developing a mechanism to trace the interaction of effects of key relationships on penal outcomes. It will certainly influence the direction of future research as scholars try to apply this concept to other times and spaces." --The American Journal of Sociology"It is refreshing to read an account of prison life and policy that so effectively combines political analysis with sociological research.The Toughest Beatis original, influential and makes a significant contribution to penology, political economy/sociology, criminology and social science more broadly." --Contemporary Sociology