This Chapter Suggested How Race and Social Class or Socioeconomic

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Essay

This chapter suggested how race and social class or socioeconomic status (SES) can influence the likelihood of arrest. Are discrepancies in arrest for black versus white sellers and users, and lower and working class versus middle-class sellers and users, solely due to race and class bias and discrimination, or are other factors at work-for instance, use and purchase patterns and law enforcement-to-seller-and-user points of contact-that might influence these discrepancies?

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Definitions:

Spot Trade

A financial transaction for the immediate exchange of a commodity or currency at the current market price.

Absolute Purchasing Power Parity

Absolute Purchasing Power Parity is an economic theory that compares different countries' currencies through a "basket of goods" approach, suggesting that exchange rates should adjust to equalize the price of identical goods in different countries.

Exchange Rate

How one currency's value is represented using another currency's value.

Indian Rupees

The official currency of India, abbreviated as INR, used as a medium of exchange within the country.