Unequal under law : race in the war on drugs

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Label

Unequal under law : race in the war on drugs

Title remainder

race in the war on drugs

Statement of responsibility

Doris Marie Provine

Creator

• Provine, Doris Marie

Subject

• Discrimination in criminal justice administration
• Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States
• Drogenmissbrauch
• Drogenpolitik
• Drogenpolitik
• Drug control
• Drug control -- United States
• Equality before the law
• Equality before the law -- United States
• Betäubungsmittelstrafrecht
• Race discrimination -- Law and legislation
• Race discrimination -- Law and legislation -- United States
• Race relations
• Rassendiskriminierung
• Rassendiskriminierung
• USA
• USA
• United States
• United States -- Race relations
• Minderheitenfrage

Language

eng

Summary

Race is clearly a factor in government efforts to control dangerous drugs, but the precise ways that race affects drug laws remain difficult to pinpoint. Illuminating this elusive relationship, this book lays out how decades of both manifest and latent racism helped shape a punitive U.S. drug policy whose onerous impact on racial minorities has been willfully ignored by Congress and the courts. The author's analysis traces the history of race in anti-drug efforts from the temperance movement of the early 1900s to the crack scare of the late twentieth century, showing how campaigns to criminalize drug use have always conjured images of feared minorities. Explaining how alarm over a threatening Black drug trade fueled support in the 1980s for a mandatory minimum sentencing scheme of unprecedented severity, the contention is that while our drug laws may no longer be racist by design, they remain racist in design. Moreover, their racial origins have long been ignored by every branch of government. This dangerous denial threatens our constitutional guarantee of equal protection of law and mutes a much-needed national discussion about institutionalized racism

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

345.73/0277

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

KF4755

LC item number

.P76 2007

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography