Crack-Powder Cocaine Disparity and Commodity Fetishism

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dc.contributor.authorAgozino, Onwubikoen
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-23T21:04:19Zen
dc.date.available2022-01-23T21:04:19Zen
dc.date.issued2021-11-01en
dc.date.updated2022-01-23T21:04:17Zen
dc.description.abstractThis is a case study of discriminatory drug policy in the US from a political economy perspective. Convictions and sentencing for drugs offenses are far higher for African Americans than white Americans even though white people use more drugs than African Americans. Two kinds of cocaine usage are bifurcated in penal policy – cocaine powder, more expensive and used more by whites and the affluent, and crack cocaine, cheaper and hence used more by the poor and by African American users (though two-thirds of those who use crack are white). The theory of commodity fetishism in the legal form will be applied to offer an original insight into this problem and the innovative abolitionist solution consistent with the theory.en
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dc.identifier.orcidAgozino, Onwubiko [0000-0003-4988-5340]en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/107878en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.titleCrack-Powder Cocaine Disparity and Commodity Fetishismen
dc.title.serialAcademic Lettersen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
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