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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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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 14h

Just today I was seriously thinking about contacting you and others to start our own journal. Beyond the issue of open science, universities are bleeding money to make papers open access, money they simply don’t have. 2k to 3k £ per paper, for nothing more than a bit of formatting. It’s obscene

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 21h

"Exploring the effect of motor traffic on street crime",
slides for this other talk available here: jmpinasanchez.github.io/static/cars-...

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 23h

Latest - and hopefully last - version of this paper available here: jmpinasanchez.github.io/static/Prepr...
Together with Melissa Hamilton and @pwgtennant.bsky.social

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 23h

"Beyond Guidelines: How Judicial Interaction Promotes Consistency in Sentencing"
jmpinasanchez.github.io/static/Abstr...
This is what I will be talking about while in Slovenia.

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

Slides for this talk in here:
jmpinasanchez.github.io/static/pragu...

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

How the tables turn...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

Reposted by Edgar Morgenroth, Michelle Everson, Lyndsey Stonebridge , and 4 more Edgar Morgenroth, Michelle Everson, Lyndsey Stonebridge, Fiona Moore, David Bartram, Alan McNally, José Pina-Sánchez

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 1d

My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.

Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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

academia . edu
pure shite

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

I'm not a linguist, not even an English native speaker, but the data seems pretty clear, speaking English in the UK you can discriminate more clearly across concepts than using the same words in the US.

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

British English is more informative than American English.

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

que no te pare nada ni nadie

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Social Research Methods at Leeds @srmleeds.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 4d

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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Reposted by Lisa Tompson, José Pina-Sánchez

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

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

socialresearchmethods.leeds.ac.uk

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Juanjo Medina 🍉 @jjmedina.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 5d

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

SPSSI Journals

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Reposted by Ben H. Ansell, Will Jennings, Pauline Stafford , and 4 more Ben H. Ansell, Will Jennings, Pauline Stafford, Federica Genovese, Colm O’Cinneíde, Tim Leunig, José Pina-Sánchez

Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 5d

Hollow laughter

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 6d

symposium.uoc.edu/141173/detai...

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 · 6d

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First Sentrix Workshop | Sentrix

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 6d

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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.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 6d

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...

www.prf.cuni.cz

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 6d

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 · 8d

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

www.northumbriajournals.co.uk

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

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 · 8d

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 · 8d

"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 · 8d

"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 · 8d

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 · 8d

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...

doi.org

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Anna Barker @annabarker.bsky.social · 8d

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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