Drugs, Crime, and Urban Trial Court Management: The Unintended Consequences of the War on Drugs
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OF THE UNITED STATES, 1989, at 176-77 (1989) [hereinafter 1989 CENSUS]. 8. BUREAU OF THE CENSUS, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, STATISTICAL ABSTRACT OF THE UNITED STATES, 1978, at 187 (1978) [hereinafter 1978 CENSUS]; 1989 CENSUS, supra note 7, at 173. 9. A Scoreboard for the Anti-Drug Campaign, Boulder Daily Camera, Aug. 29, 1989, at 3, col. 1 (quoting statistics from the FBI Uniform Crime Report). 10. For example, data collected by the National Center for State Courts [NCSC] about drug cases in large urban jurisdictions reveals the following changes in drug caseloads between 1983 and 1987: 118 Vol. 8:117, 1990
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تاریخ انتشار 2015