Discrimination – (1): the act, practice, or an instance of discriminating categorically rather than individually (1): prejudiced or prejudicial outlook, action, or treatment;

Discrimination is defined as the ability to tell two things apart. This can be directly translated into the socio-psychological perspective by adding the ideas of bias to the original definition. Discrimination is the idea that people are treated differently according to a certain trait that they possess (usually skin colour, ethnic background, or gender). The general idea is to compare the treatment of two individuals; one who possesses this trait and one that does not possess the same trait. It can be applied to racial profiling or prejudice. In these two examples of discrimination, two groups of people, for example one Caucasian and one African-American, will be treated differently because statistically, African-Americans commit more crimes. The fallacy in attributing these statistics to the real world is that they ignore socio-economic boundaries and inequalities that often lead people to crime, as well as the (often) unfair structuring of the criminal justice system.

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