Crack Cocaine, Rap Music, and the War on Drugs
by
Dimitri A. Bogazianos
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
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 equivalent...