Despite the substantial and prolonged sociological interest in health disparities, much remains unknown about the processes that initiate them. To investigate this topic, we focus on the case …

Crack epidemic, the significant increase in the use of crack cocaine, or crack, in the United States during the early 1980s. Crack cocaine was popularized because of its affordability, its …

The crack epidemic was a surge of crack cocaine use in major cities across the United States throughout the entirety of the 1980s and the early 1990s. [1][2] This resulted in several social …

At this time, powder cocaine was available on the street at an average of 55 percent purity for $100 per gram, and crack was sold at average purity levels of 80-plus percent for the same price.

Crack cocaine, a freebase form of cocaine that became prevalent in the 1980s, is a powerful stimulant known for producing an intense high and is significantly cheaper than powdered …

While other substances and drugs were also being used at this time, the rising popularity of powder and crack cocaine in the 1980s made it a primary target in the War on Drugs.

Using two different sources of information to date the emergence of crack in 27 metropolitan areas across the U.S., our analysis shows that the arrival of crack cocaine led crime to rise …

Jun 28, 2005 · We find that our measure of crack can explain much of the rise in Black youth homicides, as well as more moderate increases in a wide range of adverse birth outcomes for …

Findings are comparable to previous research that has failed to find a significant relationship between race and preferences for crack cocaine over powdered cocaine. The findings also …

Nov 29, 2022 · These disparities persist. The federal crack-to-powder cocaine sentencing disparity, now 18-1, remains egregious. In 2016, Black people were still getting arrested at …