Does crack Cocaine cause more violence than powder cocaine which leads to sentencing disparities?

In 1995, The U.S. Sentencing Commission found that violence associated with crack use was due to the drug trade rather than the effects of the drug (see first citation). Sentencing disparities between cocaine and crack are generally attributed to the socioeconomic status of the population that chooses/can afford each drug. It is believed that violent behavior pre-exists drug use and is complimented by the drug of choice as well (see second citation).

Violence associated with crack use is apparently reducing as its use "matures.

It is my understanding that most crack and, in general, drug related violence is due to the drug trade itself. Most of the crack related deaths and violence were dealer on dealer. So the violence was not directly related to the drug use itself, but the selling of the illegal drugs.

During the peak of the crack cocaine related violence and deaths the laws to counteract and punish this rise in violence were, unfortunately, focused on the type of drug rather than the violence of the crime itself. Now that the supply and demand dynamic has changed, there is no longer the same amount of violence associated with the crack cocaine trade. So the sentencing disparities between the two types of drugs are now more explicit, falling along socioeconomic divides.

See the article below in the NY Times by the 'Freakanomics' team. nytimes.com/2005/08/07/magazine/WLN10370....

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