In the United States, a person convicted of a felony drug charge is eligible to receive federal financial aid to attend college. Because of this law, ex-convicts who are released from prison have limited access to higher education and high-paying jobs. Many return to a life of crime. This is an example of the of the law.

Latent Dysfunction

Explanation:

Latent dysfunction can be described or explained as a situation whereby actions bring or have unintended or unanticipated distruptions to the existing order or law. In this case, it always result to negative consequences.

In this sense,the situation mentioned in the question is a typical example of  the latent dysfunction of the law, this is because, the action that prevented the ex-convicts from adequately accessing the higher education and high-paying job will definitely have negative consequence , which is their return to the lifestyles that initially got them convicted.

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