Lighthouse Reports on Norway | Investigating bias in the world’s most vaunted criminal justice system

According to Lighthouse Reports in Norway there is bias in the Norwegian criminal justice system, from the article Inequality Before the Law. Investigating bias in the world’s most vaunted criminal justice system:

Defendants with lower incomes receive significantly longer sentences than those with more money, and women receive substantially shorter sentences than men. Older judges impose longer sentences and punish defendants from migrant backgrounds with more severity than younger judges.

Previously, Lighthouse Reports wrote about another nordic country, Sweden: Sweden’s Suspicion Machine.

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