5 grams : crack cocaine, rap music, and the War on Drugs /

"In 2010, President Barack Obama signed a law repealing one of the most controversial policies in American criminal justice history: the one hundred to one sentencing disparity between crack cocaine and powder whereby someone convicted of "simply" possessing five grams of crack--the e...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Bogazianos, Dimitri A.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : New York University Press, [2012]
Series:	Alternative criminology series.
Subjects:	Drug control > United States. Crack (Drug) > United States. Sentences (Criminal procedure) > United States. Narcotic laws > United States.
Online Access:	Cover image