On average, Dutch courts impose harsher sentences on suspects who are less well-off than those in a better socioeconomic position, the Research and Data Center (WODC) found in a new study on criminal law.
On average, Dutch courts impose harsher sentences on suspects who are less well-off than those in a better socioeconomic position, the Research and Data Center (WODC) found in a new study on criminal law.
Would love to know more about what kind of crimes this is talking about, and how the less-poor can bullshit their way out of it
They can afford better lawyers, most likely.
Yeah, I would assume this pattern holds across much of the world…