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Christian Nicolai Bjørke @cbjoerke.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

So happy that our project «Inequality for the law» is on the shortlist. 🏆 Lucky to have been collaborating with the talented people at @lighthousereports.com. @elenadebre.bsky.social @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social @jusbraun.bsky.social

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Elena DeBre @elenadebre.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

This investigation is the result of collaboration and tireless work by the @lhreports.bsky.social and NRK team: @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social, @jusbraun.bsky.social, Tahmeed Shafiq, @cbjoerke.bsky.social, Per Øyvind Fange, and Henrik Bøe

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Elena DeBre @elenadebre.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

In a series of two stories, we spotlight a slew of systematic inequalities in sentencing–given the gender of the defendant, the age of the judge. Speaking with experts, we try to understand the cracks of justice we expose in the world’s leading legal system bsky.app/profile/lhre...

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Elena DeBre @elenadebre.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

This disparity in wealth translates to a disparity in freedom. Frank is sent to prison, Jakob is not.

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Elena DeBre @elenadebre.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

We look at the almost identical cases of Jakob and Frank. They were both convicted for intoxicated driving, under similar circumstances. But their financial circumstances are worlds apart– Jakob is sitting on millions of assets while Frank is sitting on a pile of debt.

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Elena DeBre @elenadebre.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Our first story focuses on class disparity: those who earn the least face harsher sentences than those who earn the most. www.nrk.no/norge/xl/de-...

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Frank måtte i fengsel – en rikere mann slapp

NRK avslører et ukjent klasseskille i norske domstoler.

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Elena DeBre @elenadebre.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

In the world’s model justice system, we discovered striking patterns of discrimination. Who you are–and who you’re judged by–can determine how you are sentenced. www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...

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Inequality Before the Law

Investigating bias in the world’s most vaunted criminal justice system.

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Elena DeBre @elenadebre.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Accessing verdicts and data for rigorous investigative reporting is hard to do in Europe. But in a new @lhreports.bsky.social investigation w/ NRK we built a database with 1000s of verdicts & conducted a rigorous analysis, providing a rare look inside www.lighthousereports.com/methodology/...

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How we investigated sentencing bias in Norway’s criminal justice system

Norway’s criminal justice system is regularly hailed as a model — but is it truly impartial?

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Elena DeBre @elenadebre.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Norway’s criminal justice system has often received high praise for its equity and fairness; it has rarely been under scrutiny in data-driven criminal justice journalism.

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Gabriel Geiger @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Over the past few months, we have been trying to understand whether who you are plays a role in how you are sentenced in the world’s most vaunted criminal justice system: Norway bsky.app/profile/lhre...

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Justin Braun @jusbraun.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The crimes you’re convicted of should determine your punishment, not who you are. But even in Norway – one of the “fairest” criminal justice systems – @lhreports.bsky.social & NRK reveal that there are disparities in sentence length by income and gender www.lighthousereports.com/methodology/...

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How we investigated sentencing bias in Norway’s criminal justice system

Norway’s criminal justice system is regularly hailed as a model — but is it truly impartial?

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