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The Toughest Beat: Politics, Punishment, and the Prison Officers Union in California - Studies in Crime and Public Policy Reprint edition
Page, Joshua (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota)
The Toughest Beat: Politics, Punishment, and the Prison Officers Union in California - Studies in Crime and Public Policy Reprint edition
Page, Joshua (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota)
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.
312 pages, 13 photographs, 11 charts and graphs
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | February 1, 2013 |
ISBN13 | 9780199985074 |
Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
Pages | 312 |
Dimensions | 155 × 231 × 23 mm · 498 g |
Language | English |