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The Toughest Beat Joshua Page (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota)

The Toughest Beat By Joshua Page (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota)

The Toughest Beat by Joshua Page (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota)

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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.

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The Toughest Beat: Politics, Punishment, and the Prison Officers Union in California by Joshua Page (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota)

In America today, one in every hundred adults is behind bars. As our prison population has exploded, 'law and order' interest groups have also grown - in numbers and political clout. In The Toughest Beat, Joshua Page argues in crisp, vivid prose that the Golden State's prison boom fueled the rise of one of the most politically potent and feared interest groups in the nation: the California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA). As it made great strides for its members, the prison officers' union also fundamentally altered the composition and orientation of the penal field. The Toughest Beat is essential reading for anyone concerned with contemporary crime and punishment, interest group politics, and public sector labor unions.

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Page is even-handed in his analysis...The Toughest Beat makes for fascinating reading. * Sacramento News and Review *
By linking the penal field to politics, The Toughest Beat joins an emerging literature on the politics of punishing...Page advances this literature by developing a mechanism to trace the interaction of effects of key relationships on penal outcomes. It will certainly influence the direction of future research as scholars try to apply this concept to other times and spaces. * The American Journal of Sociology *
It is refreshing to read an account of prison life and policy that so effectively combines political analysis with sociological research. The Toughest Beat is original, influential and makes a significant contribution to penology, political economy/sociology, criminology and social science more broadly. * Contemporary Sociology *

About Joshua Page (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota)

Joshua Page was born and raised in Southern California. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of California-Santa Barbara and master's and doctorate degrees from the University of California-Berkeley. Page is currently a professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife Letta Wren and two dogs.

Table of Contents

Preface ; Abbreviations ; Key Dates ; 1. Welcome to the Toughest Beat ; 2. The Birth of the Correctional Officer and His Union ; 3. A Politically Realistic Union ; 4. Power by Proxy: The Strategic Alliance Between Prison Officers and Crime Victims ; 5. Three Strikes and the Anchor of Punitive Segregation ; 6. Monopolizing the Beat: The Fight against Prison Privatization ; 7. Who Rules the Beat? The Battle over Managerial Rights ; 8. Changing of the Guard: A New Direction for the CCPOA and California? ; Methodological Appendix ; Selected Bibliography

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NLS9780199985074
9780199985074
0199985073
The Toughest Beat: Politics, Punishment, and the Prison Officers Union in California by Joshua Page (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota)
Joshua Page (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota)
Studies in Crime and Public Policy
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Paperback
Oxford University Press Inc
2013-02-01
312
Winner of Winner of the Law and Society Association's 2012 Herbert Jacob Book Prize Honorable Mention, 2013 ASA Sociology of Law Section Distinguished Book Award.
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