Does Mandatory Diversion to Drug Treatment Eliminate Racial Disparities in the Incarceration of Drug Offenders? An Examination of California’s Proposition 36
Objective This paper addresses previous shortcomings in the literature on racial disparities in incarceration for drug offenders by taking advantage of a change in sentencing policy in California and a rich administrative dataset that is able to create a sample of comparable White and Black offender...
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| Language: | English |
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2017
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Journal of quantitative criminology
Year: 2017, Volume: 33, Issue: 1, Pages: 179-205 |
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