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Just Cause or Just Because? Prosecution and Plea-Bargaining Resulting in Prison Sentences on Low-Level Drug Charges in California and Arizona
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Just Cause or Just Because? Prosecution and Plea-Bargaining Resulting in Prison Sentences on Low-Level Drug Charges in California and Arizona
Publication year:
2005
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: The "course by which offenders ended up in prison on low-level drug charges in California and Arizona, two states that sought through ballot initiatives to reduce the severity with which drug offenders are treated" is examined (p. 1-2). The following chapters and executive summary comprise this report: introduction; study design and methodology; drug possessions resulting in imprisonment in the pre-proposition eras; did prosecution patterns resulting in prison sentences change after ballot reform in Arizona; and lessons from California and Arizona drug sentencing reforms. While drug-related charges overall decreased in Arizona post-Proposition 200, offenders with extensive criminal histories and Latinos were given more severe charges. An appendix provides classification tables of California and Arizona drug offenses.