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 equival...

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Main Author:	Bogazianos, Dimitri A. (Author)
Corporate Author:	Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : NYU Press, 2011.
Series:	Alternative criminology series.
Subjects:	Drug control > United States. Crack (Drug) > United States. Sentences (Criminal procedure) > United States. Narcotic laws > United States. Lutte antidrogue > États-Unis. Crack (Drogue) > États-Unis. Sentences (Procédure pénale) > États-Unis. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology. Crack (Drug) Drug control Narcotic laws Sentences (Criminal procedure) United States Electronic books.
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