The Crack

The Injustices of Mass Incarceration of African Americans Since 1980, the United States has seen an unprecedented rise in incarceration rates. The United States is only 5% of the world population, yet it has 25% of the world’s prisoners. Currently, the US is the world’s leader in incarceration with 2.3 million people currently in jail and prisons. That is a 500 percent increase over the last forty years. These incarceration rates, mostly which runs independent of crime rates, are suggested…

The Effect of Drugs on the Economy The drug trade has allowed for kingpins to make billions of dollars through illegal activities. This large amount of money being made illegally can have an obvious effect on local and national economies. Despite this, there may be ways to flip this loss of money to illegal activities and turn it into a beneficial industry for our economy. A question that must be addressed about drugs is “how have drugs impacted the economy in the past 50 years?” Drugs have…

Referral/Presenting Problem Melvin has self-referred for what he describes as obsessive behaviors. He finds himself falling into habitual and socially abnormal routines that at times are obsessive. Examples include avoidance stepping on lines and cracks, using utensils at a restaurant, and sitting in the same place in particular locations. He notes that these problems have been on going for several years. He states that he would like some freedom from his routine as the need…

Crack cocaine and heroin was a epidemic, it increased street crime, child abuse, and spousal abuse. One of the biggest reason why these two drugs basically infested street crime was because the street level of crime is committed by drug gangs or by dependent drug users. They do certain things in order to support their habits. Street crimes relating to drugs can occur in any part of the U.S’ wealthy or poor. The book mentioned that “Cities with high unemployment, especially youth unemployment,…

the obvious racial bias which arose from the disparities between sentencing for cocaine and crack. This legislation created a five-year mandatory minimum for possession of five grams of crack cocaine, yet to receive that same five-year mandatory sentence, the law required five hundred grams of cocaine (Vagins & McCurdy, 2006). With traditional cocaine use typically associated with upper class whites and crack cocaine use associated…

Canada saw him as a great politician. Besides all of Rob Ford’s political ideals and racial comments, how Rob Ford really made a name for himself in the world as a canadian, was his drug scandal. Rob Ford had the extremely unhealthy habit of smoking crack cocaine and was an alcoholic. He was frequently viewed intoxicated in public settings. Such as at Ball games and a st. Patrick 's day parade. Rob Ford was constantly humiliating himself in his “drunken stupors”. Often saying racial and…

While watching Law and Order or NCIS, it is common to hear about the policy known as the Mandatory Minimal Sentencing. When someone goes to court they are told how long they need to serve for their crime, the lowest and highest. The lowest is set by the Mandatory Minimal Sentencing policy. The policy impacted prisons across the country. There has been an enormous rise in the prison population, along with the guidelines causing discrimination with in the justice system. When the policy was…

prisoners in our country. Even during 1982 when President Reagan officially called for a war on drugs, drug crime was on the decline. Many people think that the decision was based upon the introduction of crack cocaine and its extensive popularity in inner cities, although in reality the crack epidemic came after Reagans announcement of the “war.” Early on in the ordeal, there was a minimum sentencing placed on people who possessed drugs, punishing not a crime but a disease: addiction. Even…

Critical Evaluation The so called “War on Drugs”, catalyzed by the emergence of crack cocaine, resulted in the mass incarceration of nearly one million individuals in the years between 1980 to 1996. In the decades following Ronald Reagan’s actions on substance abuse, communities around the United States experienced a dramatic increase in illegal drug persecution. However, the effects of the drug war were not felt evenly, as communities of ethnic and racial minorities suffered the worst of the…

have to do to get your respect?” “If you're really as hard as you say, come with us and rape an innocent bystander,then we'll know your hard.” After that he took a couple of minutes to contemplate if he should go back to his old life of sell weed and crack but his dream of cars and diamonds made him say,”i'll meet you at a quarter to three!” The next day they drove around there hood slowly while it was pouring,Smokin' blunts, drinking' and joking' for entertainment, until they saw a woman…