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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Bibliographic Details
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.
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Table of Contents:
  • Welcome to the "toughest beat"
  • The birth of the "correctional officer" and his union
  • A politically realistic Union 76
  • Power by proxy : the strategic alliance between prison officers and crime victims
  • Three strikes and the anchor of punitive segregation
  • Monopolizing the beat : the fight against prison privatization
  • Who rules the beat? The battle over managerial rights
  • Changing of the guard : a new direction for the CCPOA and California.

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