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The Toughest Beat: Politics, Punishment, and the Prison Officers Union in California (Studies in Crime and Public Policy) by Joshua Page Hardcover, 312 Pages, Published 2011 ISBN-10: 0-19-538405-9 / 0195384059 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-538405-5 / 9780195384055 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. Committed to punitive justice, these organizations perpetuate America's imprisonment binge. The Toughest Beat forcefull |