The toughest beat
Subtitle: politics, punishment, and the Prison Officers' Union in California
By: Joshua Page
Series: Studies in crime and public policy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780195384055
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Welcome to the "toughest beat"; title: The birth of the "correctional officer" and his union; title: A politically realistic Union 76; title: Power by proxy : the strategic alliance between prison officers and crime victims; title: Three strikes and the anchor of punitive segregation; title: Monopolizing the beat : the fight against prison privatization; title: Who rules the beat? The battle over managerial rights; title: Changing of the guard : a new direction for the CCPOA and California.