title: Drug legalization and the minority poor.
abstract: Since the end of the nineteenth century a pattern of ghetto containment of vice has occurred. As a consequence, markets for illegal drugs have tended to become concentrated in low-income minority communities. Many minority communities, especially in the large cities, have thus been continuously burdened by high rates of addiction and drug-related crime. Ahistorical theories of the ghetto underclass offer necessary, but not sufficient, explanations for the concentration of drug sales and addiction in impoverished minority communities.
authors.affiliation: City University of New York.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Kornblum
mesh_terms: D003416:Criminal Law / Q000266:history; D004335:Drug and Narcotic Control / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008913:Minority Groups / Q000266:history; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009294:Narcotics / Q000266:history; D011203:Poverty / Q000266:history; D011640:Public Policy; D012961:Sociology; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000266:history; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D009294:Narcotics