Class Outweighs Ethnicity in Dutch Sentencing Gaps: Study - DutchNews.nl
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Class justice: Structurally punishing suspects with fewer ‘ticks’ compared to suspects with a more favorable background can…
Suspects who are less well-off receive, on average, harsher sentences than people who are better off socioeconomically. The Research and Data Centre (WODC) reports this based on its own studies into criminal law.
Suspects who are low-educated, unemployed, or have an unstable housing situation receive harsher sentences on average. Researchers observe that small differences in decisions by the police, the Public Prosecution Service, and judges can accumulate into larger differences in the final sentence. This is evident from two new studies by the Netherlands Institute for Criminality and Law Enforcement (WODC) into inequality in the handling of criminal c…
On average, those who have a job, are studying, or own a home emerge from the criminal justice system much more favorably than someone without work, education, or a stable housing situation. This is evident from a major study by the Research and Data Centre (WODC), which examined over 2.5 million criminal cases.
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