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 e...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bogazianos, Dimitri A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
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.
Lutte antidrogue > États-Unis.
Crack (Drogue) > États-Unis.
Sentences (Procédure pénale) > États-Unis.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Crack (Drug)
Drug control.
Narcotic laws.
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
United States.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Crack, rap, and the punitive turn
  • The invisible hand holds a gun: law and policy in the lethal regulation of crack
  • Rap puts crack to work
  • Things done changed: the rise of new school violence
  • Training and humiliation
  • Facing the corporation.

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