Excerpt from The U. S. Sentencing Commission and Cocaine Sentencing Policy: Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session As the Sentencing Commission itself concluded, crack dealers generally tend to have a stronger association with systemic violence [violence associated with the marketing of a drug] and are more likely to possess wea ons than powder cocaine dealers. Special Report at 195. Moreover, crack dealers tend to use young people to distribute the drug at an increased rate. Id. Thus, the violent crack culture is being transmitted to our youth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.