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Unequal Under Law: Race in the War on Drugs.
UNEQUAL UNDER LAW: RACE IN THE WAR ON DRUGS
By Doris Marie Provine
The University of Chicago Press, 216 pages
THIS SLIM VOLUME of six, tightly-organized chapters is packed with insights about America's race dilemma. Specifically, the book sets out to trace the racialized social and political underpinnings of drug policy and, in particular, the origins of mandatory sentencing minimums targeting crack cocaine--a "race drug" if there ever was one.
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Crack became the focus of a package of legislation passed in the 1980s resulting in drastic penalties (sentences more severe than most violent offenses and 100 times more severe than possession of powder cocaine), along with an overwhelming impact on Blacks--who comprise 85 percent of those sentenced in federal courts for crack offenses. The majority of crack users--about 65 percent--were ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Unequal Under Law: Race in the War on Drugs.