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Record W1570094296

The Legalization of Photography of Canadian Prisoners

2008· article· en· W1570094296 on OpenAlexvenueaboutno aff
Sarah Stacy

Bibliographic record

VenueArchivaria · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Identity and History
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLegalizationHumanitiesPolitical scienceLegislationLedgerEthnologyServantArtSociologyLaw
DOInot available

Abstract

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RESUMÉ Ce texte trace les origines de l'usage de la photographie dans les pénitenciers fédéraux au Canada.En se servant principalement de la correspondance tirée du fonds du ministère de la Justice, conservé à Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, et en utilisant des exemples tirés des registres des détenus du pénitencier de Kingston (« Kingston Penitentiary Inmate History Description Ledgers »), l'expérience et la réaction sociale canadiennes sont comparées aux expériences contemporaines des États-Unis, de l'Angleterre et de la France.L 'auteure examine aussi le rôle qu'a pu jouer la législation fédérale sur les pratiques policières au niveau municipal.ABSTRACT This article documents the origins of the use of photography within federal penitentiaries in Canada.Drawing primarily on correspondence from the Department of Justice records at Library and Archives Canada, and using examples from the Kingston Penitentiary Inmate History Description Ledgers, the Canadian experience and social response is compared with contemporary developments in the United States, England, and France.Whether federal legislation may have af fected police practices at the municipal level is also discussed.Not ten years had passed since the Daguerreotype technique was publicly announced in 1839, when law of ficials in both England and France were actively taking and collecting photographs of prisoners.In fact, photographing prisoners became one of the biggest uses for the new technology .In 1841, the Paris police began to include daguerreotype portraits on file with their reports on individual criminals 1 and Bristol Gaol staf f in England claimed they had "reduced the [recorded] number of criminals from 160 to 100" when they adopted the practice of photographing their inmates in 1848. 2 In 1871, the United Kingdom passed the Prevention of Crimes Act, which required all prisons to adopt photography as a way to document their prisoners.3 The use 1 Jennifer Green, Framing the Victorians (Ithaca, 1996), p. 200.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.006
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.033
Threshold uncertainty score0.237

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0050.004
Science and technology studies0.0100.005
Scholarly communication0.0030.001
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0140.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.015
GPT teacher head0.215
Teacher spread0.199 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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