SOSC 2350 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Racialization, Precedent
15 Jan 2015
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Calavita chapter 6, the talk versus the walk of law pp 94-115. For a contemporary example, consider the sharing of copyrighted files on the internet. 1997 law in the united states makes peer-to-peer (p2p) swapping of any copyrighted. Internet files, not just music, a federal felony punishable with fines of up to and a three-year prison term: there is a reason why you may not have heard of this law that was signed by. President clinton over a decade ago: there have been almost no p2p prosecutions. The ability to enforce the law against some people and not others is the logic behind the enactment of some laws. Certainly, the vagrancy laws were useful to those who wished to reinstate slavery after the civil war. African americans, while they make up only 27% of those prosecuted for dealing powder cocaine.
