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Disproportionate Incarceration of African Americans for Drug Offenses in the U.S.
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Disproportionate Incarceration of African Americans for Drug Offenses in the U.S.
Publication year:
2004
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: "[N]ational trends in arrests and incarcerations for drug offenses and . . . the unstinting growth in the country's prison population attributable mainly to increases in the number of persons sentenced to prison for drug offenses" are covered (p. 2). This bulletin discusses: the growth in the prison population; prison admissions for drug and other offenses; prison admissions and race; prison admissions, race, and drug offenses; race and prison admission rates for drug offenses in select states; concentrated drug enforcement in lower-income communities; consequences of concentrated drug enforcement; and social costs.