The Toughest Beat

Politics, Punishment, and the Prison Officers Union in California

Joshua Page (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

312 Seiten

2013
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-998507-4 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

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.

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.

Joshua Page was born and raised in Southern California. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of California-Santa Barbara and master's and doctorate degrees from the University of California-Berkeley. Page is currently a professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife Letta Wren and two dogs.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.2.2013
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Crime and Public Policy
Zusatzinfo	13 photographs, 11 charts and graphs
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 231 mm
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-19-998507-3 / 0199985073
ISBN-13	978-0-19-998507-4 / 9780199985074
Zustand	Neuware