Unequal Under Law - Race in the War on Drugs

Informationen zum Autor Doris Marie Provine is director of the School of Justice and Social Inquiry at Arizona State University. She is the author of several books! including Judging Credentials and Case Selection in the United States Supreme Court! both published by the University of Chicago Press. Klappentext Race is a factor in government efforts to control dangerous drugs! but the precise ways that race affects drug laws remain difficult to pinpoint. Illuminating this relationship! this book lays out how decades of racism helped shape a punitive US drug policy whose onerous impact on racial minorities has been ignored by Congress and the courts. Zusammenfassung Race is a factor in government efforts to control dangerous drugs! but the precise ways that race affects drug laws remain difficult to pinpoint. Illuminating this relationship! this book lays out how decades of racism helped shape a punitive US drug policy whose onerous impact on racial minorities has been ignored by Congress and the courts.

Product details

• Authors: Doris Marie Provine, Provine Doris Marie
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2007
• EAN: 9780226684628
• ISBN: 978-0-226-68462-8
• No. of pages: 193
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; USA, Ethnic Studies, LAW / Criminal Law / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Criminal law & procedure, LAW / Drugs & the Law, Social discrimination & inequality, Drugs trade / drug trafficking, United States of America, USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Criminal law: procedure and offences, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism, Social discrimination and social justice, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General