Unequal under law: race in the war on drugs
Auteur :
Provine, Doris Marie
Éditeur :
The University of Chicago Press
ISBN :
9780226684628
Date de publication :
1 oct. 2007
Dimensions :
2,3 x 1,6 x 0,1 cm
Poids :
340 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.