Crack Cocaine Era
International Journal Of Offender
Keywords: crack cocaine; Black's theory of law; drug policy; racial discrepancies T he shocking death of basketball player Len Bias brought crack cocaine to One setting, era, society, or neighborhood may have more or less law, or social control, than another. … Read Content
Social Justice, Spring 1999 V26 I1 P115(2)
(Human Rights, Gender Politics & Postmodern Discourses)(crack cocaine; children of drug addicts) Enid Logan. Many whites in this period believed that "refer mad Mexican bandits" were largely to blame for the era's skyrocketing rates of unemployment and … Read Here
He Future Of Children
Of treatment effectiveness highlights some of the findings from this recent, comprehensive compilation of current research knowledge. 5 In the preface to its findings, the IOM Committee acknowledged the limitation "imposed by the scarcity of research data since the onset of the crack-cocaine era … Get Doc
Street Baptism, Machismo And Inner-City Street Culture
Angeles— which have flourished in the era of deindustrialization and crack cocaine— draw upon a variety of rituals to reinforce these systems of classification, making the … Return Doc
The Youth Gangs,
crack cocaine epidemic. The public linked these two developments, often with implications of cause and effect. Some gangs of that era used—or at least tolerated—marijuana. Heroin-using cliques were common in East Los … Retrieve Full Source
Crack: It's The Real Thing
Apartheid-era officials have testified that the government stockpiled tons of Mandrax and Ecstasy in the late 1980s for the purposes of Ross, M and L. Hwang, L. Leonard, M. Teng, L. Duncan (1998) Crack Cocaine as a Major … Fetch This Document
Hospitalized Patients Living With HIV In The Era Of HAART …
5/20/2010 1 Hospitalized Patients Living with HIV in the Era of HAART: The impact of drug abuse in HIV infection in Florida Allan E Rodriguez MD are many patients who cycle in and out of the hospital -"Frequent Fliers" •The reasons why these patients fail to enter care are many but crack cocaine is … Read Full Source
Psychomotor Stimulants Historical Perspective, Cont.
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Cocaine As Andean History Links In A Chain
And crack cocaine boom of the 1980s, and cocaine remains its driving foreign nemesis. Third, the period after 1945, which the book treats as the era of the invention and spread of illicit cocaine, presents daunting challenges with … Get Content Here
Historical Overview Of Gangs Drug Use And Trafficking
Some gangs of that era used—or atleast tolerated—marijuana. Heroin-usingcliques were common in East Los Angeles gangs by the middle of the 1950 The Current Image of Youth Gangs Because the growth in youth gang violence coincided with the crack cocaine epidemic, the two developments were generally … Access Full Source
Chapter Four: Racial, Ethnic, And Gender Disparities In …
The sentencing of crack cocaine defendants (over eighty percent of whom are Black) who are given between male and female offenders has widened in the guidelines era, as shown in Figure 4.9. … Read More
Cocaine-Associated Chest Pain And Acute Myocardial Infarction
Pulmonary condition known as “crack lung” which involves hypoxemia, hemoptysis, respiratory failure, if the patient is likely to continue using cocaine or not. This recommendation seems particularly prudent in the era of aggressive revascularization for … Retrieve Document
Understanding Why Crime Fell In The 1990s: Four Factors That …
Market for crack cocaine, the aging of the population, tougher gun control laws, of the pre-crack era. In stark contrast, the homicide rates of older black males … Read Here
Superpredatorsand OtherMythsAbout JuvenileDelinquency
1990s, and he tied these three findings together around the “crack cocaine epidemic” of that era (Campbell & Reeves, 1994; Hartman & Golub, 1999). … Read Here
Fifteen Years Of Guidelines Sentencing – November 2004
This is particularly true for the 100-to-1 drug quantity ratio between powder and crack cocaine. The Commission's study of past sentencing practices revealed that in the preguidelines era, sentences for fraud, embezzlement, and tax evasion … Document Retrieval