Law in Contemporary Society

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CarinaWallance-FirstPaper 8 - 05 Mar 2008 - Main.IanSullivan
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 Ending the discriminatory effect of the mandatory minimums forms the distant backdrop of the development of crack-cocaine sentencing reform – one on which the proponents of reform can conveniently draw to advance their more immediate concerns. While recent changes do represent progress (although minimal), this progress is driven predominantly by social and political forces and not by a central concern for the discriminatory and disparate effects of the law. While understanding and utilizing the forces at play is important for enacting change, the social reformer also has a duty to insert genuine outrage at the unjust effects of the law into the process. Otherwise, the direction of legal reform remains at the whims of the social and political forces that currently guide it.
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