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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814787010
• ISBN13: 9780814787014
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"