5 grams crack cocaine, rap music, and the war on drugs

"In 2010, President Barack Obama signed a law repealing one of the most controversial policies in American criminal justice history: the one hundred to one sentencing disparity between crack cocaine and powder whereby someone convicted of "simply" possessing five grams of crack--the e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bogazianos, Dimitri A. (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press 2012.
New York, NY : [2011]
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Alternative criminology series.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009809030706719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Crack, rap, and the punitive turn
  • The invisible hand holds a gun: law and policy in the lethal regulation of crack
  • Rap puts crack to work
  • Things done changed: the rise of new school violence
  • Training and humiliation
  • Facing the corporation.