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5 grams : crack cocaine, rap music, and the war on drugs /

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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.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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by Bogazianos, Dimitri A.
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