One rule for the privileged posh and another for the plebs (Oxford student who stabbed boyfriend)

[VladmirsPoutine]

I went to Oxbridge but this story still rankles me. A med student at Oxford gets out of sentencing (for now) because she has a promising career ahead of her. What she did to her ex constitutes as a crime. But lo and behold the judge found at least for now in her favour.

Had this been some of the girls and boys I grew up with no shadow of a doubt they'd now be in custody.

www.itv.com/news/2017-05-17/oxford-student-who-stabbed-boyfriend-could-avoid-jail/

Enough with the witch-hunt. Some of us might say 'oxbridge' on here to avoid identifying which particular one of the two we went to. There's enough identifying stuff in most people's search history without giving away more specifics than you need to. And if it comes up in conversation with someone who didn't go to Oxbridge, I do tend to say I did an MA when in reality it was an MPhil, because MA is the level of the qualification as generally understood - an MPhil in most other unis is a 2-year course. Also, as shown on this thread, the raft of assumptions that get made about you when you say you went to Oxbridge is such that in real life I never mention it unless asked specifically.

Yes-scaryclown suggested that women receive shorter sentences for the same crime. I would love to see some evidence for that.

bertrand

To be honest i did think that usually women were imprisoned for lesser crimes

So theft and card fraud for example

BertrandRussell mumsnet has an educated user base. And multiple degrees are not that unusual. Living in a university town, I know literally hundreds of people with multiple degrees. I also suspect a fair number of academics are likely to post on mumsnet, for a number of reasons. Also, saying you have multiple degrees on here mostly makes people think you are an overprivileged twat, so it's hardly a badge of honour. Why you think everyone is making it up is a bit mystifying.

Bertrand it's in ONS statistics. Its easy to look up.

The reason the percentage of women imprisoned for first offences is quite high is that fewer individual women are repeat offenders. That statistic sounds like 'oobill loads of women are imprisoned first time' but is more a reflection of the lower number in the other stat iyswim

Ok. Suggest a crime. I'll look it up.

The reason I said 'Oxbridge' is because I have an extensive posting history so i'd be outed very quickly had I declared the uni and college.
Is that a crime? Next time I'll just post about some odd MIL that wants to give my dc a hug... that would be more suiting to this place.

Yes vladmirs that was what I had imagined. God forbid people try to protect their privacy.

I tend to say Oxbridge too for the same reason - but I did actually go to both: one for my undergraduate degree and the other for my PhD.

zoe You're not invisible. Thanks - I've sort of just given up on the thread tbh. I didn't know it had already been discussed at length.
Equally, I never go about IRL saying I went to Oxbridge - it never comes up and it would sound very odd, I agree.

Sorry I was just having an oversensitive sort of day😁 I don't blame you for giving up on the thread - I don't know how people get off accusing strangers of lying about something so random, and really not that unusual among professionals. There must be 10s if not 100s of 1000s of Oxbridge graduates out there.