Crack Cocaine Minorities
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Toxic (amphetamines, cocaine, crack, heroin, phenylpropanolamine, lysergic acid diethylamide) risk factors, especially in developing countries and minorities in high income nations37. … View Doc
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• Current quantity-based penalties overstate the seriousness of most crack cocaine offenses and fail to provide adequate proportionality. • The severity of the current penalties mostly impacts minorities. … Read Content
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Furthermore, because more than 82% of those currently in prison for federal crack cocaine convictions are African Americans and 96% are racial or ethnic minorities, the NAACP is deeply concerned at the Attorney General’s callous characterization that many of the people in question are “violent … Fetch Doc
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Same time, crack cocaine users are usually poor, uninsured minorities with low levels of education, members of traditionally underserved groups, with … Access This Document
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Of minorities in juvenile and adult correctional institutions is due to combined societal considerably harsher penalties for crack–cocaine than powder-cocaine, and resulted in … Read Document
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crack and the black west. crime and punishment: two black generations collide. pan-africanism in portland, 1991. the multicultural american west. ethnic population distribution in washington, 2000 … Access Document
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Lengths; the laws are written so that crack offenders receive longer sentences than powder cocaine offenders and because crack offenders are more likely to be minorities, this leads to … Access Full Source
Race And Class Differences In Print Media Portrayals Of Crack …
Are, first, does the combination of race and class of crack cocaine and methamphetamine users shape the print media’s portrayal of these drugs? And, second, do such depictions shape official response? THEORETICAL BACKGROUND Minorities and Drug Use … Read Here
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• “When the Sentencing Commission voted in November to lower sentencing guidelines for crack-related crimes, and bring them closer to sentences for powder cocaine, Obama favored applying the new terms retroactively to current prisoners… Noting that the laws mostly affect minorities … Doc Retrieval
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crack cocaine laws while whites constituted only 8.8% despite the fact that more than 66% of people who use crack cocaine are white. 2 In addition, in 2005 racial minorities comprised 85% of those receiving mandatory minimum … Get Doc
Appendix D SUMMARY OF WRITTEN PUBLIC COMMENT ON COCAINE …
Because the problem lies with crack cocaine penalties. Any increase in powder cocaine penalties would send those offenders (50 percent of whom are Hispanic and 80 percent of whom are minorities) to prison longer for no discernible reason. … Access Doc
ACE AND LASS ENALTIES IN RACK OCAINE ENTENCING
Since minorities and lower income persons are most likely to inhabit these areas, they are therefore at greater risk of arrest for crack cocaine possession than are white and higher income powder offenders. … Access Full Source
SUMMARY: ISSUES SURROUNDING DRUG USE AND DRUG SERVICES …
Ethnic minorities in England This is the LDAN summary of Jane Fountain?s series of publications1 to inform drug service ? The use of crack cocaine and, especially, of heroin may have been underreported by study … Retrieve Here
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minorities and create a public perception that the criminal justice system is unfair and inconsistent. The USSC tries to amend the guidelines to equalize the amount of crack and powder cocaine that trigger particular guideline sentences. … Access Document
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minorities sent to prison and it is obvious that the sentencing procedures are racially . 1 The Sentencing Project. “Crack Cocaine Sentencing Policy: Unjustified and Unreasonable.” … Fetch Doc
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Nor was the statistical evidence showing that the crack–cocaine sentencing scheme burdened minorities more than whites. Eventually, judicial criticism petered out. … Retrieve Here
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Current Penalties’ Severity Mostly Impacts Minorities • The overwhelming majority of offenders subject to the heightened crack cocaine penalties are black, about 85 percent in 2000 (see Chapters 5 and 8). … Read Content
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The sentencing disparity created by the Anti – Drug Abuse Act of 1986 unfairly led to a disproportionate number of crack cocaine offenders who happened to be minorities sentenced to harsher and longer prison sentences than their po wder cocaine, and mostly white counterparts. … Return Doc