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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺

@jpinasanchez.bsky.social

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Professor of Quantitative Criminology and co-director of the Social Research Methods centre at the University of Leeds. Interested in #Data #Bias #Measurement #CriminalJustice #Sentencing #Disparities. jmpinasanchez.github.io/ .. more

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Social Research Methods at Leeds @srmleeds.bsky.social · 5h

First up, @clanfear.bsky.social on 6 November, with an introduction to "the Potential Outcomes Framework" (socialresearchmethods.leeds.ac.uk/events/intro...).
This is a hybrid event (and will be recorded, watch ater here: socialresearchmethods.leeds.ac.uk/methods-clips/), so all are welcome!

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Social Research Methods at Leeds @srmleeds.bsky.social · 5h

Researchers, methods enthusiasts, check out our programme of events on #ResearchMethods for this academic year!
Find more here: socialresearchmethods.leeds.ac.uk/events/

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Social Research Methods at Leeds @srmleeds.bsky.social · 9h

In our latest clip, we have the privilege of featuring Prof. Ray Pawson @sspatleeds.bsky.social presenting “The Rise and Fall and Rise of Evaluation Research.”
A must-watch for anyone interested in #RealistMethods and #PolicyEvaluation more broadly.
socialresearchmethods.leeds.ac.uk/methods-clips/

Methods Clips | Social Research Methods Centre

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Juanjo Medina 🍉 @jjmedina.bsky.social · 22h

Nueva entrada en el blog, pensarlaseguridad.es/posts/sereno...

Image of a PCSO or community support officer to illustrate the entry in the blog

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 1d

Not strictly sociology but close enough: spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1530...

SPSSI Journals

Click on the title to browse this journal

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 1d

Hollow laughter

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 2d

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Webinar: Quins factors influeixen en les decisions judicials? Les sentències penals com a objecte de recerca criminològica.

Podràs seguir el webinar des d'aquest enllaç (estarà operatiu quan comenci l'activitat). Es necessita inscripció prèvia. Les sentències judicials són una font d'informació valuosa per a la investigac...

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 2d

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First Sentrix Workshop | Sentrix

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 2d

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Exploring the effect of motor traffic on street crime

Join this event to hear Professor Jose Pina-Sánchez discuss the relationship between heavy motor traffic and increased street-level crime.

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 2d

www.prf.cuni.cz/en/departmen...

VSPEE - Research seminars in law, economics, and empirics | Právnická fakulta UK

Research seminars in law, economics, and empirics (VSPEE) take place on Tuesdays at 2 p.m. in room 225. A complete list of speakers can be found below. This seminar series is supported by the Center f...

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 2d

Over the next six weeks, I’ll be touring Europe talking about sentencing disparities, cars and crime. If you're into any of those topics, maybe I’ll see you in Prague, London, Bled, or Barcelona. See below for details of the events, some of them are hybrid and open to everyone.

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 3d

Also, the Sentencing Council's guidelines have improved between court consistency, sentencingcouncil.org.uk/media/5hwpk2... which was already pretty high, and there is indirect evidence they have contributed to reduce ethnic disparities in sentencing: www.northumbriajournals.co.uk/index.php/jl...

Ethnic Disparities in Sentencing in England and Wales: Review of Recent Findings | Journal of Legal Research Methodology

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 3d

A much bigger failure in my view was their inability to keep sentence inflation in check for the 14 years they were in power.

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, but suspended sentences are not used to calculate the increase in custodial sentence length, which for indictable sentences has been huge
www.sentencingacademy.org.uk/wp-content/u...
On early releases emergency decisions like the 'Standard Determinate Sentence 40%' have been adopted recently.

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 3d

"The public are sick of voting for tougher sentences and getting the opposite."
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/oct...
To put it mildly, Robert Jenrick is a complete imbecile who does not know what he is talking about:
www.sentencingacademy.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 3d

"For too long, we have outsourced how we define prestige to the indexers and specifically the impact factor. This has created a system in which the need to get published in prestigious journals creates bad incentives for authors to inflate their findings to tell a good story."

Putting knowledge before prestige | Laboratory News

Our reliance upon the impact factor is destroying public trust in science, argues Damian Pattinson.

www.labnews.co.uk

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 4d

To hell with impact factors and citation counts, if you want to figure out how good is a journal or a researcher just read them.

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David Buil-Gil @davidbuil.bsky.social · 4d

Short note with Fernando Miró Llinares published on @crimrxiv.com: 'Yet another problem for scholarly communication in criminology: The case of a Spanish journal turned into a paper mill'
doi.org/10.21428/cb6...

Yet another problem for scholarly communication in criminology: The case of a Spanish journal turned into a paper mill

Founded in 1999, RECPC became one of the most influential Spanish-language journals in criminal law and criminology. After a 2024 change of management, articles of dubious authorship and quality linke...

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Anna Barker @annabarker.bsky.social · 4d

What would you do if you saw harassment in your local park? 🌳

Harassment in parks and public spaces is a key safety concern for women and girls — and park staff are often the first to witness or respond.

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Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 6d

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

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European Network for Open Criminology @opencriminology.bsky.social · 8d

Hello! ENOC is on BlueSky now. We are a working group of the @esc-eurocrim.bsky.social dedicated to the promotion, training, application and rewarding of open research in criminology. Check out our website for more: esc-enoc.github.io

European Network for Open Criminology

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Matt Ashby @mattashby.com · 8d

@opencriminology.bsky.social 👋

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 8d

Most quantitative research that is not preregistered is actually inductive/exploratory. We just keep lying to ourselves.

Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 10d

I genuinely thought that having a Uni of Leeds graduate as PM would be great news for us.

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 10d

The defining characteristics of the previous 14 years of Tory rule, now served on a red tray.

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 10d

Why this hate towards less prestigious universities though?
It is incredibly irrational.
Is it due to a inferiority complex (they never made it to uni)? Or perhaps the opposite, pure classism from Oxbridge graduates?

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 10d

'He added: "But also close down half of universities and turn them into vocational colleges just to open the conversation."'

Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.bsky.social · 10d

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Labour peer calls for Treasury to be abolished

Maurice Glasman, founder of Blue Labour, calls for more

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 11d

As a methods man you should know that running the necessary focus groups to figure out his appropriate response takes time.

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 14d

Ok. They’ve pissed me off.

I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:

1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 15d

I’ve heard it say that Nigel Farage has no less than seventeen nipples spread over his chest and back.

I’m, of course, not saying it’s true, but we have no evidence saying otherwise.

It could be true, we just don’t know.

That’s how this works, right?

The @elegraph
Farage claims migrants are eating swans in Royal Parks
Reform UK leader's accusations immediately rebuffed by Royal Parks charity
IBC

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