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Drug laws, racial attitudes and jurisprudence

By Douglas A. Berman

Alex Coolman, the lawyer who authors the always interesting Drug Law Blog, has a terrific new post providing the particulars interview with Prof. Doris Marie Provine, author of the book Unequal Under Law: Race in the War on Drugs.  Here are snippets of an interview that should be read in full:Q: I?m thinking ? and this is maybe a counter-example ? of the moment you note in your book when Rep. Barney Frank was talking about the crack-powder sentencing disparity. He was being very explicit and saying it was ?overwhelmingly, objectively racist,? and he inspired all these outraged responses from other representatives who just thought that was ludicrous and that it couldn?t possibly be. A: You can?t go that route and create policy change. I think Marc Mauer [the director of the Sentencing Project] is brilliant in the way that he is approaching change...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 31, 2008 (boomark / email).