Pros And Cons Of Crack Cocaine

Black women have been imprisoned for having the ‘girlfriend role’. This is when a woman is dating a drug dealer and gets caught in the drug conspiracy charge due to her boyfriends or husbands drugs in one form or another (acluvideos, 2008). This does not just hurt the woman who was convicted but also here children and other dependents. Black women who live in poor neighborhoods are disadvantaged within their disadvantaged neighborhoods and are often exploited by men who hold the power.

Blacks have been stereotyped to be criminals since the slavery era. The stereotypes of blacks being criminals led to justifying keeping blacks slaves and other types of discrimination (Kennedy, 1998, pg 13). After slavery blacks were believed to have a tendency

Crack has been given federal guidelines for minimum sentencing including ten years if convicted of having fifty grams or more(Provine, 2007 pg 1).This mostly had a negative effect on young, uneducated, poor black males. When a young black male who is already poor and uneducated receives ten years in prison and turned into a felon decreases the ability of getting employment drastically as well as other factors like finding a place to live and receiving financial aid for school. These factors create even less ways to legally make a living and increases the likelihood to continue to be involved in criminal activity. Poor minority neighborhoods have been overly regulated by police resources to arrest inner city residents (Mauer, 2006, pg 165). Inner cities like east St. Louis not only have over policing and crack issues but also have high levels of joblessness, high dropout rates(over 50 percent) and many other social problems (Provine, 2007, p 3). These factors can be positively correlated with crime and victimization and among African

This is an unfair policy that treats the same active ingredient different. This policy discriminates against blacks who received 81 percent of the crack cocaine sentences (Provine, 2007, p 4).

An important predictor for crime and delinquency is family disruption and many black families are disrupted (Miller, J.,2008) Disrupted black families are majority ran by single mothers having fathers incarcerated or abandoning families. These families are are more likely than whites to be in impoverished neighborhoods filled with crime (Miller, J. (2008) with less institutional social and control like recreational centers, churches, and schools. Residential inequality created by Macrosocial patterns is an important factor of violence and crime in poor inner city neighborhoods. This leads to social isolation of poor blacks and ecological concentration of of blacks and other disadvantaged people. The structural barriers include good schools and universities,employment opportunities, protection by the police, institutions like churches, and more barriers from organized community organizations. The people of these communities have fewer legal opportunities compared to the middle class to achieve success in legal ways and can influence the involvement in crime to find success and