by Doris Marie Provine (Author)
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.
Format: Illustrated
Pages: 216
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 12 Oct 2007
ISBN 10: 0226684628
ISBN 13: 9780226684628