Crack Cocaine Discrimination
Gender & Criminal Justice
Simple possession of crack cocaine is a felony, carrying a five-year mandatory sentence – even for first-time offenders War on Drugs and Racism the disadvantage of women clients vs. Compensating Equality Laws Sex-specific in providing advantages to women in addressing historical discrimination … View Full Source
United States Court Of Appeals
Racial discrimination. Ids . During voir dire, the juror, Ms Rivers, acknowledged that for distributing crack cocaine are more severe than the penalties for its distribution in … Access Content
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RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN CAPITAL AND NON-CAPITAL SENTENCING WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE EVIDENCE IN MURDER AND RAPE PROSECUTIONS of the federal law, which until recently, imposed sharply different sentences for the crimes of powder cocaine possession and crack cocaine possession. … Fetch Here
“EVERY SHUT EYE, AIN’T SLEEP”: EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF …
International Convention To Eliminate All Forms of Racial Discrimination to the U.S. Criminal Justice System, 40 HOW. L.J. 641, 659-64 (1997) (noting that under federal law, the criminal penalty for possession of only five grams of crack cocaine and for … Fetch Content
My Letter To Congress
Mandatory penalties for crack cocaine that are the most unjust ever adopted for low-level drug offenses and amounts to legalized discrimination for crack cocaine offenders compared to … Fetch Doc
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Article 2 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (“Convention”) requires the state correctly identified the “war on drugs,” and particularly mandatory minimum sentencing and disparities in the treatment of crack and powder cocaine … Return Doc
Stigma And Discrimination
People who use crack. As a result, few treatment services or support options are available. 26 People Who Use Crack Cocaine Homeless adults who use crack face discrimination and poor … Doc Viewer
Interpersonal Discrimination And The Health Of Illicit DrugUsers
For two reasons persons who use illicit substances such as cocaine, heroine, or crack maybe particularly vulnerable to discrimination. First, negative attitudes toward illicit substance users maybe more pervasive than negative attitudes toward other marginalized groups (18). … View Doc
The Crack Controversy – A Rapid Panic Was Sweeping The …
Crack cocaine was finding its way into the hands of many lower classes, black, inner-city residents since it was a cheap, affordable form of 1986, critics believe the USSC and Congress have increased the discrimination in the … View Document
July 28, 2009
Average crack cocaine sentence is far longer than the average sentences for violent crimes such as robbery and sexual abuse. The harsh penalty structure and severe racial sentencing disparity create a clear and dangerous appearance of discrimination … View Document
The War On Drugs
2 Jessica Nitsche Racial Discrimination and American Law The War on Drugs: A Legalized form of Discrimination on the Basis of Race use in the country and gain support for his War on Drugs. 8 Much of Regan’s media campaign focused on the emergence of the use of crack cocaine … Retrieve Document
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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 white women referred to discrimination against “white trash.” Several women in project FAST believed that “getting off … Retrieve Document
To Be Brutally Frank, I Don’t Know That Fairness And …
Complied with decrees and eliminated the “vestiges of past discrimination” to “the extent practicable.” Lawrence P. Williams Offenses: Conspiracy to Distribute & Distribution of Crack Cocaine, … Access Document
Sex-for-Crack–Cocaine Exchange, Poor Black Women, And Pregnancy
Sex-for-Crack–Cocaine Exchange, Poor Black Women, and Pregnancy Tanya Telfair Sharpe Ignoring historical discrimination and the results of economic restructuring, a modern group of social Darwinists and … Doc Viewer
Punishment And Discrimination Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen
Punishment and Discrimination Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen 1. Introduction All kinds of punishment can be discriminatory, but for capital punishment the blacks primarily use crack cocaine and whites primarily use powdered cocaine.9 This is so … View Document