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The father ofher second child began experimenting with crack cocaine. She described her crack cocaine use as more addictive and expensive plified the interconnectedness of gender, class, and race (hooks, 1991; Andersen and Collins, 1992). … Fetch This Document
Racial Impact Statements As A Means Of Reducing Unwarranted …
In the case of crack cocaine laws, the impact of a policy change on racial disparities would have been very substantial. A recent assessment of potential policy change examined the race and incarceration impacts of eliminating the … Read Full Source
Professor LaJuana Davis Scholarship And Recent Presentations
Rock, Powder, Sentencing—Making Disparate Impact Evidence Relevant in Crack Cocaine Sentencing, 14 J. Gender Race & Just. 376 (2011) … Read Document
Cracks In The System
JUSTICE 6-7 (Craig Reinarman & Harry G. Levine eds., 1997) [hereinafter Crack in Context]. There was no evidence that African Americans used as much cocaine as whites, yet white politicians used race to stir up public sentiment against cocaine … Fetch Document
A TASTE FOR PUNISHMENT
Implications for discourse on race and crime are also discussed. Keywords: Death Penalty, Cocaine, Crack, Public Opinion, Crime, Prejudice INTRODUCTION … Return Doc
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES MEASURING THE IMPACT OF CRACK …
Separately by race. Some of the variables are available at the state-level only. Section III: Identifying Crack 16 For instance, a newspaper story that reported a cocaine addict, while in the process of committing a crime, got … Fetch Doc
Is Crack Cocaine Use Associated With Greater Violence Than …
Gender, low income, low levels of education, race (African-American), and bipolar disorder were signi?cant in ?nal regres-sion models. Overall, the likelihood of violence associated with crack cocaine users was greater compared to powdered cocaine … Fetch This Document
UCLA Law Review
The story could be told in a variety of ways, but McCleskey could not fail to grasp its essential narrative line: there was a significant chance that race would play a prominent role in determining if he lived or died. n91 b. Case 2: Crack Cocaine Sharon Shepherd is being prosecuted in federal … Read Content
RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN SENTENCING Lieutenant Lewis Bray …
This disparity is due to war on drugs, racial profiling, and race based sentencing. Another reason the disparity is the prevalence use of crack cocaine among black males versus powered cocaine use among … View Doc
Demographic, HIV Risk Behavior, And Health Status …
race, education and social privilege. Although crack cocaine injection was found to be associated with elevated rates of high risk behaviors, the crack injectors in this sample may … View Doc
Take Another crack At That cocaine Law
Take another crack at that cocaine law By Eric E. Sterling ERIC E. STERLING, president of the nonprofit Criminal Justice Policy Foundation in the race of the defendants. A promising sign is that a few months ago, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), a former U.S. … Access This Document
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL DEFICITS AND CEREBRAL …
Approximately 413,000 of these individuals used crack cocaine. An estimated and education) were examined in relationship to the number of years of cocaine and alcohol use. Race was controlled by entering this variable into the first … Get Content Here
Talking Points Support S 1789 The Fairness In Cocaine …
Differences are due, in large part, to the crack cocaine mandatory minimum penalty. It is no surprise that such disparity contributes to a regrettable perception of race-based unfairness in our criminal justice … Read Document
Illegal Drug Use And race
Both powder and crack cocaine is up over the last 15 years and stable over the last eight. SOURCES: Human Rights Watch: “Targeting Blacks, Drug Law Enforcement and Race … Access Document
Race, Sex, And Pretrial Detention In Federal Court: Indirect …
Race, Sex, and Pretrial Detention in Federal Court: Indirect Effects and Cumulative Substantial Assistance Departures in Federal Crack–Cocaine and Powder-Cocaine Cases, 24 JUST. … Content Retrieval
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Confined to Black offenders convicted of drug offenses involving crack cocaine. The results provide further evidence that the focal concerns guiding judicial decision making may vary depending on the offender’s race or ethnicity. … Retrieve Doc
Tier 2 Approaches When Engaging Black & Minority Ethnic Crack …
CRACK COCAINE “From Freebase to Evidence Base” REGENTS COLLEGE CONFERENCE CENTRE LONDON Budgeting & Future Dominant Norms & Accept Race & Class Differences … Return Document