Mandatory crack-cocaine sentencing drove Black prison growth in the 1980s
Evidence
Surveilling black bodies results in their hyperincarceration, highlighting how surveillance is racialized and targets specific characteristics like skin tone (Wacquant 2014), so the racialized surveillance of black bodies is reflected in their rates of incarceration in comparison to whites, particularly when it comes to drug use, despite the fact that both populations commit crimes at roughly the same rate (Alexander 2012). — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 95 (
#contradicts, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Racialized surveillance drives black hyperincarceration despite equal crime rates — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 95; Drug trafficking’s trust deficit drove hundreds to early death in the 1980s
Related
- Racialized surveillance drives black hyperincarceration despite equal crime rates (similarity 0.88)
- Mandatory crack sentencing drove explosive growth in the Black prison population (similarity 0.86)
- Mandatory crack sentencing exploded the Black prison population by the 1980s. (similarity 0.84)
- Fear of black lawlessness drove the US prison-state expansion (similarity 0.81)
- Mass incarceration stemmed from policy changes, not crime or racial drug differences (similarity 0.80)
- Fed crack sentencing statistics show racial targeting rather than differential drug use (similarity 0.79)
- Post-2000s drug incarceration racial disparities contracted as Black arrests fell (similarity 0.79)
- Crack-cocaine sentencing laws deliberately criminalized black drug behavior more than white (similarity 0.78)
- The War on Drugs amplified but did not create drug imprisonment disparities. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Racialized surveillance drives black hyperincarceration despite equal crime rates
#contradicts(0.35) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 95