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5 Grams: Crack Cocaine, Rap Music, and the War on Drugs (Alternative Criminology, 15) 5 Grams: Crack Cocaine, Rap Music, and the War on Drugs by Dimitri A. Bogazianos
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“Crack had a social logic to it, a specific kind of reasoning that drew from a vast well of common experience for its symbolic resonance. Crack stood for pain and power, chaos and order, the truth behind the lie. Crack was a sociolegal logic grounded in blood.”
― Dimitri A. Bogazianos, 5 Grams: Crack Cocaine, Rap Music, and the War on Drugs
tags: crime-and-punishment, drug-policy, drugs, law, social-issues, social-justice
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