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“The burden of [Marijuana in Public View] arrest has been falling disproportionately on blacks and Hispanics and that members of these minority groups, on average, have been receiving harsher treatment within the criminal justice system."

The Race/Ethnicity Disparity in Misdemeanor Marijuana Arrests in New York City

Criminology & Public Policy

Golub, Andrew / Johnson, Bruce D. / Dunlap, Eloise

Vol. 6 Issue 1, pp. 131–164, 2007

10.1111/j.1745-9133.2007.00426.x

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