This is methodological nonsense @stephenwhittle and shows you know nothing at all about criminal statistics, their short comings, what they measure and what can be said on the basis of them. The criminal justice system is a filtering process. CSEW and police and prison…

@JoPhoenix1 @stephenwhittle Thank you Jo. I had looked at the use of statistics in the tweet, and thought they didn't make sense. Clearly ideologically driven rather than evidence driven. A poor example to students.

@DeraCalla @stephenwhittle In Whittle's defence the mistake is a common undergraduate mistake. But usual by the end of the 1st year students know that you cannot extrapolate from prison or probation statistics prevalence of extent. If you could there would be virtually no white collar criminals and the…

@JoPhoenix1 @DeraCalla Thus is effjng X formally known as twitter - not the Modern Law Jrnl. Fact is trans people are less likely to break the law than others because they know how awful the cost will be - it’s known as deterrence And yet GC’s love to extrapolate from prison figures

@stephenwhittle @DeraCalla And here I present to you the standard trope of those who are prejudiced - only one step removed from the "can't you take a joke love" defence if sexists - "this is only twitter/X, don't take it so seriously love".

@MenAtWork_MC @JoPhoenix1 @stephenwhittle @DeraCalla 😂 Turned off replies as well, which shows he really wasn’t that confident his ‘thesis’ was very robust.