dc.contributor.author	Johnson, Gilbert
dc.coverage.spatial	United States	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2022-01-18T16:54:58Z
dc.date.available	2022-01-18T16:54:58Z
dc.date.issued	2021-06
dc.identifier.other	A2A895C9-8235-C985-463D-06FBB3201B3D	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10428/5191
dc.description.abstract	Education is known to be valuable, which in turn can be a critical component to the rehabilitation process. Reasoning behind the apparent disparity in sentencing decisions is extrinsic and complicated, although research has provided multiple avenues of explanation. The empirical literature on education and crime has focused almost exclusively on the effects of educational attainment on post-school criminal activity; however, a few studies have attempted to estimate the ‘effects’ of educational attainment on contemporaneous crime. This study will evaluate the level of education that has been attained by federal inmates and see if inmates with some education background have lesser sentences than inmates with no educational background. In order to get the full scope of the independent variable effect on sentence length this study will use crosstabulation. This study plan on using cross-tabulations to describe the relationship between educational attainment and sentence length, while controlling for serious crimes and maximum sentence length. Variable coding will support the analysis. The results from this study showed educational attainment plays a role in sentencing and criminal offenses. The discussion of the findings is important because it will show that educational attainment plays a role in the criminal sentencing process. This study hopes to find educational attainment a key factor in how people are sentenced. Results from this study showed educational attainment play a role in sentencing but it does not do a good job in helping predict sentence length.	en_US
dc.description.tableofcontents	FAIR USE 4 -- DUPLICATION 4 -- ABSTRACT i -- LIST OF TABLES iii -- DEDICATION v -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vi -- CHAPTER 1 1 -- INTRODUCTION 1 -- REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE 7 -- History of Sentencing 7 -- Norval Morris Theory of Punishment 8 -- Focal Concerns Theory and Development Life-Course Criminology 10 -- Inmates Level of Education 14 -- Sentence Length 15 -- Current Study 17 -- CHAPTER 3 19 -- METHODOLOGY 19 -- Data and Sample 19 -- Analytic Strategy 20 -- Variables and Measurement 20 -- CHAPTER 4 22 -- Analysis and Results 22 -- Table 1. Crosstabulations Education and Maximum Sentence 22 -- Table 2. Chi-Square Test 25 -- Table 3. Symmetric Measures Kendall’s tau-b 25 -- Table 4. Crosstabulation Education and Time Served 26 -- Table 5. Chi-Square Test 28 -- Table 6. Symmetric Measures 28 -- Controlling For Offense Level 29 -- Table 7. Crosstabulation Education and most serious Offenses 29 -- Table 8. Crosstabulation Education, Maximum Sentence, Serious offense 36 -- CHAPTER 5 45 -- Culture/Social Capital behind Bars 48 -- Limitations of study 50 -- APPENDIX 58	en_US
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dc.rights	This dissertation is protected by the Copyright Laws of the United States (Public Law 94-553, revised in 1976). Consistent with fair use as defined in the Copyright Laws, brief quotations from this material are allowed with proper acknowledgement. Use of the materials for financial gain with the author's expressed written permissions is not allowed.	en_US
dc.subject	Academic theses	en_US
dc.subject	Criminal justice, Administration of	en_US
dc.subject	Educational Attainment	en_US
dc.subject	Sentences (Criminal procedure)	en_US
dc.subject	Prison sentences	en_US
dc.title	The Effects of Educational Attainment on Incarceration Sentence Length	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Department of Criminal Justice In the College of Humanities and Social Sciences	en_US
dc.description.advisor	Wilfred, Shani P.
dc.description.committee	Knowles, Fred E.
dc.description.committee	Robinson, Deborah M.
dc.description.degree	M.S.	en_US
dc.description.major	Criminal Justice	en_US