Differences in sentencing in similar cases? This Long TEXT was the second non-peer review of the (now defunct) Dutch website ‘Emperors & Clothes’ (Keizers & Kleren). I discussed the article Differences in sentencing in similar cases that appeared in episode 2012-11 of the Dutch Legal Journal (‘Nederlands Juristenblad’ (NJB)). In publishing this English translation, I… Continue reading Lies, damned lies, statistics and criminology
Old Dutch Painter’s Blog
Surrealism
It is the roof of a train at the station with a cut out of the city office. In itself the office is huge and ugly.
Really nice anti-BLM street art
I appreciate this street art like I appreciate the Blues. On bricks!
Validating victimhood & propagating prostitutes with penises
Video + TEXT on transgenderism
How science got canceled: “Don’t you hurt my peer”
Why exactly no placebo punishments?
In 2009, the Journal of Criminology [A Dutch journal, ‘Tijdschrift voor Criminologie, hence: ‘TVC’ further on] published the article “Recidivism after community service and after prison sentences”. The authors claimed to have demonstrated that offenders reoffend less after community service than after a prison sentence. At the beginning of 2011, the study was the subject… Continue reading Why exactly no placebo punishments?