Crack Cocaine Users by Race
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Signi?cant differences were found on race, education, employment and residence, with crack injectors more likely to be white, employed, better educated and living in research among injection drug and crack cocaine users. Hum. Organ 53, 279–286. … Fetch Full Source
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In self-report of cocaine, 54% reported cocaine and 31% crack use; however, as a group, Hispanics under-reported their use of cocaine since the hair there were no differences by race or ethnicity among cocaine-only users, but among poly drug … View This Document
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Crack Cocaine Users Toye H. Brewer Æ Wei Zhao Æ Margaret Pereyra Æ Carlos del Rio Æ Classi?cation of race and ethnicity: implications for public health. Annual Review of Public Health, 24, 83– … Retrieve Document
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Offenses, yet only 18% of crack cocaine users are African American. The disparity contributes to a regrettable perception of race-based unfairness in our criminal justice system that at worst leads to jury nullification. The Sentencing Commission has stated that “[r]evising the crack cocaine … Retrieve Doc
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race-based differentials. However, the research does not clearly support elimination of the sentencing differential for powder versus crack cocaine. between crack cocaine users and powder cocaine users. This expert attributes any … Get Content Here
Cocaine & Crack
(2008 – cocaine – user counts by race ) An estimated 1.1 million Americans aged 12 or older used crack cocaine at least 10th-graders, and 1.9 percent of 12th-graders were current (past-month) cocaine users. Crack cocaine use, which has been … Fetch Full Source
Social Justice, Spring 1999 V26 I1 P115(2)
The wrong race, committing crime, doing drugs, and maladjusted for motherhood: the nation's fury over "crack babies.". (Human Rights, Gender Politics & Postmodern Discourses)(crack cocaine; children of drug addicts and Drugs: Differences Between Crack–Cocaine, Heroin, and Methamphetamine Users." … Read Document
F EDERAL C RACK C OCAINE S ENTENCING Overview – Origins Of …
Dorothy Lockwood, Anne E. Pottieger, and James A. Inciardi, “Crack Use, Crime by Crack Users, and Ethnicity,” in Darnell F. Hawkins, ed., Ethnicity, Race and Crime. New York: State University of New York Press, 1995, p.21. 9 USSC, Report to Congress: Cocaine and Federal Sentencing Policy, May … Doc Retrieval
THE FEDERAL PRISON POPULATION: A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
• 81.4% of crack cocaine defendants in 2002 were African American, while about two-thirds of crack cocaine users in the general population are white or Hispanic. … Get Doc
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To be the crack users — with long sentences and let the white powder cocaine sniffers of the race of the defendants. A promising sign is that a few months ago, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), a former U.S. … Get Doc
Only Congress Can Eliminate The 100-to-1 Sentencing Disparity …
cocaine offenses, yet only 18% of crack cocaine users are African American. race-based unfairness in our criminal justice system that at worst leads to jury nullification. The Sentencing Commission has stated that “[r]evising the crack cocaine thresholds would better … Fetch Doc
Follow-Up Study Of Crack Cocaine Users: Situation Of The …
Follow-Up Study of Crack Cocaine Users: Situation of the Patients After 2, 5, and 12 Years Race (n = 130) White 97 74.6 Black 33 25.4 Civil status (n = 130) Single 87 66.9 … Get Content Here
RACE AND DRUG LAW ENFORCEMENT IN SEATTLE
Crack Cocaine Users.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Tonry, Michael. 1995. Malign Neglect: Race, Crime, and Punishment in America. … Retrieve Here
Federal Sentencing Policy – Feb 1995
Halfway House for Adults, Inc., in Wichita, Kansas, presented arrest statistics for the Wichita area by race, sex, and age. He noted that the amounts of confiscated crack cocaine Schuster recounted a study by the Addiction Research Center that examined whether the number of Black crack cocaine users … Fetch Content
Outcomes Among Drug Court Participants: Does Deborah Koetzle …
High attrition rates among crack/cocaine users, coupled with the link between program completion and recidivism, may help to explain F 2 , F p Primary drug of choice Alcohol 0 0.0 73 100.0 0 0.0 Marijuana 0 0.0 0 0.0 108 100.0 Crack/cocaine 121 100.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 Race White … Fetch Doc
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Noted increasing acceptability of crack–cocaine use. Users remain diverse in terms of race/ethnicity, age, and socioeconomic status. Most areas of the state continue to report crack abuse among adolescents (14 … Read Document
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Plified the interconnectedness of gender, class, and race (hooks, 1991; Andersen and Collins, 1992). tively old for crack cocaine users, but many of these women experimented with other drugs prior to making crack co- … Access Full Source
Crack And HIV: What Clinicians Need To Know
cocaine/crack users aged 12 or older, comprising 0.7 percent of the population. Race/Ethnicity of Crack/Cocaine Treatment Admissions: U.S., 1992 vs. 2008 … View This Document
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Crack Cocaine Users.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Tonry, Michael. 1995. Malign Neglect: Race, Crime, and Punishment in America. … Retrieve Full Source