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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Main Author:	Bogazianos, Dimitri A.
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	Electronic eBook
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. Electronic books.
Online Access:	An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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