01559nam a2200325 a 4500 EDZ0000077191 StDuBDS 20150804193922.0 m||||||||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 110510s2011 nyu fo| 001 0 eng|d 9780199893560 (ebook) : No price StDuBDS StDuBDS HV9475.C2 331.88113659794 22 Page, Joshua. The toughest beat [electronic resource] : politics, punishment, and the Prison Officers' Union in California / Joshua Page. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011. 1 online resource. 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. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 11, 2011). Includes bibliographical references and index. Criminal justice, Administration of California. California Crime Prevention Officers Association. Prisons California. Corrections United States. Prison administration California. Print version 9780195384055 Oxford scholarship online http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195384055.001.0001 36705 36705