The Toughest Beat: Politics, Punishment, and the Prison Officers Union in California

by Joshua Page

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0199985073

ISBN13:9780199985074

Release Date:February 2013

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:312 Pages

Weight:1.05 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"

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Law Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences

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