Mooiman, Audrey (2025) What is the Relationship of Historical Structural Injustice Experienced by African Americans, in Education and Incarceration Rates? Bachelor thesis, Global Responsibility & Leadership (GRL).
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Abstract
This dissertation examines the relationship of historical structural injustice experienced by African Americans in education and incarceration rates. It focuses on how unequal access to quality education contributes to high incarceration rates for people of colour. More specifically how HSI contributes to the school to prison pipeline, and the school to prison pipeline’s responsibility for high incarceration rates. I propose various recommendations for how education can serve as a preventative measure against high incarceration rates of African Americans. These include addressing funding inequity in schools, ensuring high quality academic instruction regardless of neighborhood or school funding structures, establishing clear school discipline policies with accountability, training school staff to reduce the effects of implicit bias, and implementation of both Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) and Restorative Justice into schools. If applied, it can reduce arrests and incarceration rates, lower crime rates, decrease recidivism rates, increase numbers of educated people in the US, and save taxpayer money.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Name supervisor: | McKeown, M.C. |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Jun 2025 09:28 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Jun 2025 09:28 |
| URI: | https://campus-fryslan.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/608 |
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