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STATEMENT OF JUDGE REGGIE B. WALTON UNITED STATES DISTRICT …
And cocaine base ("crack") is one of other cocaine defendants.>6 I have a concern that disparate impact of crack sentencing on African-American communities shapes social attitudes. When large segments of the African-American population believe that our criminal justice system is racist, it … Content Retrieval
Cocaine-Associated Agitated Delirium And The Neuroleptic …
These reports were deeply interwoven with elements of racist hysteria they were never taken seriously. related to the widespread popularity of crack cocaine. In the early stages of the disorder, victims are hyperther- … Fetch Here
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS …
To be arrested for crack cocaine than other racial groups. Although Congress purportedly acted to address concerns that crack cocaine was somehow more harmful than powder cocaine, it created a racist sentencing scheme where Caucasian offenders … Retrieve Doc
Assumptions In Cockburn & St. Clair
Mandatory minimum for crack cocaine found to be “undeniably racist in practice” (paragraph 14) b. Discrepancy in death penalty application based on race (paragraph 16) … Retrieve Document
Is Crack Cocaine Use Associated With Greater Violence Than …
Lence associated with crack cocaine use is not a consequence of the pharmacological actions of the drug but instead re?ects involvement in criminal acts, and that the drug laws regard-ing usage were largely class driven and racist in nature (10, … Get Doc
EINARMAN EVINE Crack In The Rearview Mirror: Deconstructing …
The crack scare of the late 1980s had political purposes and racist consequences (see Beckett, 1997). Our critique of the crack scare draws upon a tradition begun by Alfred Lin- and crack cocaine (“Justice Department Opposes Lower Jail Terms for Crack,” … Return Doc
Journal Of Contemporary Criminal Justice
The passage of strict crack cocaine laws (Austin & Irwin, 2001; Currie, 1998; Mauer, without ever bringing into awareness the racist predicates on which the statements are … Return Document
OW IS THE RIMINAL USTICE YSTEM ACIST
Sentence someone can receive for simple possession of powder cocaine is one year.32 • Stereotypes regarding who uses crack cocaine and who uses powder cocaine make mandatory minimums racist. Not only are crack and powder cocaine simply different forms of the same drug, but crack is primarily … Get Content Here
Social Justice, Spring 1999 V26 I1 P115(2)
(Human Rights, Gender Politics & Postmodern Discourses)(crack cocaine; children of drug addicts) Enid Logan. lead paint, poverty, and racism, are immaterial to fetal rights advocates because they lie outside of the implicitly patriarchal and racist … Read Content
Control Units And Torture Devices In US Prisons
A result of racist crack–cocaine laws. Jose Lopez organizes the National Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of War and Political Prisoners. … Document Viewer
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racist. I felt hurt, and I became angry as well. Suddenly, Alice's mood shifted, and she began seeking my pity. crack cocaine in combination with drugs such as marijuana or heroin. This increased knowledge of the women’s drug- … Access Content
RACIAL DISPARITIES IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
crack cocaine than powder cocaine, then it was tantamount to being racist, because you did not care about the African-American community. So Congress dutifully, not wanting to be racist, voted for these … Access Document
The Impact Of Institutional Racism On The African American
The heads of our institutions are not always racist. But they may Unjust Federal Crack Cocaine Laws The Federal mandatory minimum sentencing guidelines for crack cocaine … Retrieve Doc
Crack Cocaine Sentencing Policy: Unjustified And Unreasonable
Crack Cocaine Sentencing Policy: Unjustified and Unreasonable Overview Crack cocaine became prevalent in the mid-1980s and received massive media attention … Read More
Race And The Drug War
Reported that Bias had smoked crack cocaine the night before his death. In fact he had used and found it to be undeniably racist in practice. In 1994for example, 84 percent of those … Access Doc
Testimony Of Marc Mauer, Executive Director The Sentencing …
Sending another black man to jail in a system that they believe is racist because of the disparity regarding crack as compared to powder cocaine sentencing.” … Get Document
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One-hundred-to-one crack-powder cocaine federal sentencing disparity, precisely because it is as “taken-for-granted as the natural received shape” (Comaroff & Comaroff, 1991, p. 23) of American society. Thus, however racist the … View Full Source
The “Crack/Powder” Disparity: Can The International Race …
Caine offenses. under federal law, possession of five grams of crack cocaine carries the See Sam Meddis, Is the Drug War Racist? Disparities Suggest the Answer is Yes, uSA ToDay, July 23, 993, at A: … Get Document
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Percentage of the mentally ill, youth of color imprisoned as a result of the racist crack cocaine laws, prisoner activists and people who are and aren't members of … Get Doc