The toughest beat [electronic resource] : politics, punishment, and the Prison Officers' Union in California / Joshua Page. Page, Joshua. California Crime Prevention Officers Association. Criminal justice, Administration of California. Prisons California. Corrections United States. Prison administration California. HV9475.C2 331.88113659794 22 Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 11, 2011). 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. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011. 2011. 2011 Text 1 online resource. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195384055.001.0001 eng California. California. United States. California.