A principal reason for why education-based discrimination is disregarded is because it is overshadowed by the more commonly expected and discussed forms discrimination. Considering it is often co-occurring or acting as proxy to the other forms (Tannock 2008). This is particularly exhibited in a court sentencing. Albonetti’s (1997) analysis, one of the few to include education-level, examined and revealed how the defendant’s characteristics (extralegal variables) influence sentencing and its severity, such as imprisonment length. The analysis concluded that in terms of education-level, a male of minority class and of lower education would receive a more sever sentence than one of higher class and education (Albonetti 1997). Furthermore, having …show more content…
Education is considered to be an independent variable which significantly influences recidivism rates (Haulard 2001). In 2001 Haulard determined that the education prior and during an individual’s time in the correctional system affected their rate of recidivism as education permits a discriminated individual to re-enter society in an appropriate manner (Haulard 2001). They are deemed as more acceptable beings. Studies have established that the average education level prior to incarceration by inmates is much lower to the level of education attained by a ‘free’ man (Stevens and Ward 1997). Consequently leading to the assumption that a lack of education determines the individual as less intelligence and/or has less ability to make ‘wise’ decisions. …show more content…
It is unfair and unmoral to discriminate those who do not have the wanted elite levels of education (Tannock 2008). Society would not be able to function as it requires diversity. It needs those to do the tasks which are deemed to be lesser. And when it comes to a court setting, education-based discrimination is magnified for the court actors are evaluating every capacity of the defendant, no matter if it is regulated as irrelevant. Education is a factor which is greatly stressed for it is used to put one ahead of