The toughest beat : politics, punishment, and the Prison Officers' Union in California

The toughest beat : politics, punishment, and the Prison Officers' Union in California / Joshua Page.

To understand California's deep and durable penal crisis, we must examine the California Correctional Peace Officers Association, the labor union. Drawing on years of intensive research, Page uses the lessons of the CCPOA to explore how actors create, shape, and protect their preferred status q...

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Main Author: Page, Joshua
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Series:Studies in crime and public policy.
Subjects:
California Correctional Peace Officers Association.
California Correctional Officers Association.
California Correctional Peace Officers Association
Criminal justice, Administration of > California.
Prisons > California.
Corrections > United States.
Prison administration > California.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Corrections
Criminal justice, Administration of
Prison administration
Prisons
Gevangenissen.
Penitentiair inrichtingswerkers.
Vakverenigingen.
California
United States
Californië.
Online Access:Click for online access
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Summary:To understand California's deep and durable penal crisis, we must examine the California Correctional Peace Officers Association, the labor union. Drawing on years of intensive research, Page uses the lessons of the CCPOA to explore how actors create, shape, and protect their preferred status quo.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 293 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199830756
0199830754
9780199893560
019989356X
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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