Acta Economica et Turistica (Dec 2017)
Racial Discrepancies in the Participation Between Alcohol Prohibition and the Drug War
Abstract
Why is it that young Italian-American men were shooting each other over turf during the prohibition of alcohol in the 20th century, and young African-American men are shooting each other over turf in the 21st? Was this just a historical accident? Could it easily have been the other way around? That is the question with which the present paper attempts to wrestle.
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