Crack Cocaine Sentencing Racism
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Analyzing And Evaluating Evidence
Authors then return to the present to argue that sentencing differences between crack and powdered cocaine show the racism of the drug war in practice. … Doc Retrieval
The Racial Hoax As Crime: The Law As Affirmation
Held that federal sentencing guidelines which provide a harsher penalty for crack cocaine possession than for the same amount of powder cocaine are without legal justification and are the result of "unconscious racism." … Get Content Here
GGD-90-57 Death Penalty Sentencing: Research Indicates …
Tion in death penalty sentencing is both of sufficient quality and quan- tity to warrant the evaluation synthesis approach. Page 2 GAO/GGD-90-57 Racial Disparities in Sentencing … Retrieve Content
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RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN CAPITAL AND NON-CAPITAL SENTENCING WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE EVIDENCE IN than do comparable disparate treatment claims, which carry strong implications of overt racism. 9 For example, it is very unlikely that Congress would have addressed the powder/crack cocaine … Doc Retrieval
DE-COUPLING RACE, CRIME, AND PUNISHMENT – Lawrence D. Bobo, W …
If Jim Crow racism and the subsequent struggles over civil rights defined earlier eras in the American or prison terms actually be served, sentencing enhancements for various offenses, crack versus powder cocaine sentencing differentials, the federalization of many of … Access This Document
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
In poverty as a result of multiple factors articulated in other sections of this report, most notably the section on structural racism. See The Sentencing Project, Federal Crack Cocaine Sentencing, 2007. 72 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Results from the 2005 … Document Retrieval
Criminal Justice
Fairness in Cocaine Sentencing Act Federal legislation to eliminate disparity in sentencing of crack vs. powder cocaine Next step: vote by full house 2. Racial profiling Courts-issues include Special courts, e.g. drug court, mental health court Classism Racism … Doc Viewer
Power, Politics And Pedagogy: Teaching About Law As A …
Example 2: Blacks, Crack and the two Legal Tracks: Cocaine Sentencing Laws Aside from the established litigant class described by Galanter, research has indicated biases in to decrease the incidence of any form of prejudice and bigotry on campus and increase sensitivity to such issues as racism and … Document Retrieval
The Myth Of A Fair Criminal Justice System
Unfairness in the substantive criminal law is the disparate punishments for crack vs. powder cocaine found in the federal sentencing guidelines (Blumstein 2003). Race, racism & American law. New York: Aspen. Benson, Michael, & Cullen, Francis. … Get Content Here
Learning Objectives
•Largely attributable to urban crack cocaine epidemic, increased methamphetamine use and disparate federal drug sentencing guidelines. When structural racism and a racial equity lens are a part of the analysis … Read Content
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CONSTRUCTING A RACIAL EQUITY THEORY OF CHANGE
A Structural Race Analysis Structural racism is a shorthand term for the many systemic factors that produce and sustain racial criminal justice domain: increased public funding for prison construction, disparities in prison penalties for powder vs. crack cocaine possession and adult sentencing … Fetch Content
Representation And Recruitment: A Three- Part Analysis Of The …
That the disparity between sentencing in the two drugs was due to the fact that crack cocaine was believed to be more addictive, resulted in more violence, and was more harmful when ingested by pregnant women, many have argued that this provision was, in essence, a form of institutional racism. … View This Document
The Anti-Incarceration Movement: A Crisis Not Wasted
Possession of crack cocaine are far more severe than those for powder cocaine, a difference they attribute to racism. The higher incarceration rates for blacks are similarly taken as an indication of racist motives in sentencing and imprisonment. … Retrieve Content
ISMANTLING TRUCTURAL ACISM ACIAL QUITY HEORY OF HANGE
Structural racism is a very complex, dynamic system. Three elements of the structural racism disparities in prison penalties for powder vs. crack cocaine possession, and adult sentencing of … Read More