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by José Pina-Sánchez

jpinasanchez.bsky.social
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
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by José Pina-Sánchez

jpinasanchez.bsky.social
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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by José Pina-Sánchez

jpinasanchez.bsky.social
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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by José Pina-Sánchez — Reposted by: Ben Bradford

jpinasanchez.bsky.social
"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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Reposted by: José Pina-Sánchez

samuelmoore.org
"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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by José Pina-Sánchez

jpinasanchez.bsky.social
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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Reposted by: José Pina-Sánchez

davidbuil.bsky.social
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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Reposted by: José Pina-Sánchez

annabarker.bsky.social
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.

🧵 (1/6)
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Reposted by: José Pina-Sánchez, Kim L. Scheppele, Richard S.J. Tol , and 13 more

defenddemocracy.bsky.social
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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Reposted by: José Pina-Sánchez

opencriminology.bsky.social
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
esc-enoc.github.io
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Reposted by: José Pina-Sánchez

mattashby.com
@opencriminology.bsky.social 👋
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by José Pina-Sánchez

jpinasanchez.bsky.social
Most quantitative research that is not preregistered is actually inductive/exploratory. We just keep lying to ourselves.
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by José Pina-Sánchez

jpinasanchez.bsky.social
I genuinely thought that having a Uni of Leeds graduate as PM would be great news for us.
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by José Pina-Sánchez

jpinasanchez.bsky.social
The defining characteristics of the previous 14 years of Tory rule, now served on a red tray.
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by José Pina-Sánchez

jpinasanchez.bsky.social
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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by Margot C. Finn — Reposted by: José Pina-Sánchez

eicathomefinn.bsky.social
'He added: "But also close down half of universities and turn them into vocational colleges just to open the conversation."'
k2mey.bsky.social
Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.bsky.social · 7d
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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by José Pina-Sánchez

jpinasanchez.bsky.social
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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Reposted by: José Pina-Sánchez, Simon L. Lewis, Steve Peers , and 3 more

zoejardiniere.bsky.social
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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Reposted by: José Pina-Sánchez, Andrew Scott

bearlypolitics.co.uk
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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Reposted by: José Pina-Sánchez, Daniela Gabor, Steve Peers , and 6 more

adambienkov.bsky.social
Keir Starmer’s spokesperson asked for the PM's response to Nigel Farage’s plan to deport hundreds of thousands of people living and working completely legally in the UK, replies that he thinks it is “unworkable” and “unfunded”.

So his objection is that they’ve got their sums wrong
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by José Pina-Sánchez

jpinasanchez.bsky.social
Lohrs book on sampling is a true gem.
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Reposted by: José Pina-Sánchez

annabarker.bsky.social
We're excited to launch a major #SaferParks: #StandUpAgainstStreetHarassment campaign in partnership with @suzylamplughtrust.bsky.social @keepbritaintidy.bsky.social #GreenFlagAward to build a community of active bystanders and make our parks safer, more inclusive spaces for all
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by Prem Sikka — Reposted by: José Pina-Sánchez, Prem Sikka

premnsikka.bsky.social
UK could raise £2bn by taxing SUVs in line with European countries.

Why do so many people want giant SUVs? They damage roads, create more pollution, cause more serious injuries and take up bigger parking spaces.

UK buyers pay 20 times less tax than in other European countries.

Tax them.
UK could raise nearly £2bn by taxing SUVs in line with European countries, study shows
Thinktank says an ‘SUV loophole’ means UK buyers pay up to 20 times less tax on biggest models than in neighbouring nations
www.theguardian.com
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Reposted by: José Pina-Sánchez

davidbuil.bsky.social
New short piece on the European Network for Open Criminology site with Torbjørn Skardhamar:
Reduce the Costs and Increase the Benefits of Open Science
esc-enoc.github.io/how-to/cost-...
Reduce the Costs and Increase the Benefits of Open Science – European Network for Open Criminology
Find out how shifting incentives can make open science the norm.
esc-enoc.github.io
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by José Pina-Sánchez

jpinasanchez.bsky.social
This is really good (only got up to the introduction, but will definitely finish it later).
Perhaps the author should consider submitting it to the BJC.
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Reposted by: José Pina-Sánchez

mattashby.com
A masterclass in how to test a theory, using the example of 'ghost criminology' (a reasonable idea hiding behind a silly name and a huge amount of waffle). The end result being the theory isn't supported by experimental evidence.

doi.org/10.21428/cb6...
"And I would have got away with it, too, if it weren’t for you meddling kids": Experimentally falsifying Ghost Criminology
Ghost criminology contends that places scarred by crime and atrocity emit a “spectral residue” that affects visitors to that site. To test whether unease stems from physical settings or from the…
doi.org
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by Jerry H. Ratcliffe — Reposted by: José Pina-Sánchez

jerryratcliffe.net
To contextualize this week’s political commentary, of the 2,647 identified extremist violent offenders in the US since 2000, far-right extremists were more than 7 times more represented in the data than far-left extremists.

* No, this isn’t to negate the abhorrent shooting this week.
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by José Pina-Sánchez

jpinasanchez.bsky.social
It is no exaggeration to say that at this point it is either social media or democracy.
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by José Pina-Sánchez

jpinasanchez.bsky.social
It’s hard work, invites criticism, does not draw citations (especially if the time invested is instead dedicated to writing more papers). While senior academics, who ought to lead the way, for the most part neither care nor engage.
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Reposted by: José Pina-Sánchez, Ingo Rohlfing

asiermoneva.com
Researchers often perceive 'barriers' to practicing #OpenScience, whether it’s publishing open access, sharing data, or pre-registering studies.

Last week at @esc-eurocrim.bsky.social, I presented our work at NSCR identifying 36 such distinct barriers.

Do you recognize them in your own work?
Tile chart showing 36 barriers to practicing open science, grouped by barrier type and by open science practice. The five barrier categories, based on National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2018), are: costs and infrastructure (3 barriers); structure of scholarly communications (8); lack of supportive culture, incentives, and training (15); privacy, security, and proprietary barriers to sharing (8); and (intra)disciplinary differences (2). Barriers are also grouped by nine open science practices: publishing open access (4 barriers), publishing preprints (5), sharing open code (4), sharing open data (6), sharing open materials (2), conducting open peer review (4), using open source software (4), pre-registering research (3), and disclosing contribution roles (4).
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