Treatment versus Punishment: Undersdanding Racial Inequalities in Drug Policy.
Context: Many observers believe that the policy response to the opioid crisis is less punitive than the crack scare and that the reason is that victims are (stereotypically) white. Meth od s: To assess this conjecture, we compile new longitudinal data on district-level drugrelated deaths and (co)spo...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Health Politics, Policy & Law Vol. 45; no. 2; pp. 177 - 210 |
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Duke University Press
Apr2020
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