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Re:Who’s to Blame for Mass Incarceration? by Lawtonfogle on Friday October 23, 2015 @10:22AM (#10438710)
>Are "racist" drugs laws the cause of "mass incarceration" of blacks in the United States?

Are sexist laws the cause of mass incarceration of men in the US (and in other countries)?

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Re:Who’s to Blame for Mass Incarceration? by debacle on Friday October 23, 2015 @10:45AM (#10438869)
No, but the legal system does have a sexist slant to it.
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Re:Who’s to Blame for Mass Incarceration? by Lawtonfogle on Friday October 23, 2015 @10:53AM (#10438922)
Why not both (or all 4)?

There are laws with racist and sexist underlying reasoning and disparate impacts and the legal system does have a racist and sexist slant to it. There are also decently fair laws that are broken at unequal rates due to sexual and racial differences in society (those differences themselves often caused by social racism and sexism).

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