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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
Category: criminology
Back in 2006, Tim Blair declared I'd lean towards the official police figures myself (although jerked-around crime counting methods make comparisons problematic), mainly because they're, you know, official police figures. The British Crime Survey is just a survey. Alas,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:53 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: criminology
Via GrrlScientist I find the latest story claiming: What gets little notice, however, is a series of academic studies over the last half-dozen years that claim to settle a once hotly debated argument--whether the death penalty acts as a deterrent...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 2:04 PM • 6 Comments •
Category: criminology
Tim Blair has added a slew of updates to try to bolster his case against the accuracy of the British Crime survey. The most interesting things about these updates is the way he introduces his sources: Ex-Labour councillor and...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:55 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: criminology
A while ago I Wrote about the Bulletin and Tim Blair's ignorance of basic statistics. Blair could not comprehend how random sampling could give more accurate crime statistics than police reports, while the Bulletin reported numbers from an Internet...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 3:12 PM • 10 Comments •
Category: criminology
Because if you don't you might end up like Tim Blair: Big call from Tim Lambert: "Crime and violent crime in Britain peaked in the early 90s and [have] since plummeted." His source? The British Crime Survey, an annual...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:58 PM • 39 Comments •
Category: criminology
When I wrote about David Frum's voodoo criminology in support of the death penalty, I didn't mention any of the recent research that purports to find a deterrent effect for the death penalty because Frum didn't cite it. That research...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:33 PM • 15 Comments •
Category: criminology
Tim Blair links to some interesting articles in this week's Bulletin. First up is a page on John Howard with the intriguing title "The hosue of Howard". It's a fearless, hard hitting complete suck up to Howard. Apparently, after a...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 1:25 PM • 15 Comments •
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