5 Grams: Crack Cocaine, Rap Music, and the War on Drugs

by Dimitri A. Bogazianos

Book Overview

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 of a few sugar packets--had been required by law to serve no less than five years in prison. In this highly original work, Dimitri A. Bogazianos draws on...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814787002
• ISBN13: 9780814787007
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"