Collateral Consequences: The Effects of Decriminalizing Prostitution on Women's Equality in Business
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Prostitution may be decriminalized in Canada in the next few years. In British Columbia, the Downtown Eastside Sex Workers United Against Violence Society (SWUAV) and Sheryl Kiselbach are using the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (“Charter”)1 to challenge the constitutionality of Canada’s adult prostitution offences.2 SWUAV and Ms. Kiselbach were granted public interest standing to take their case forward by the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) in September 2012.3 In March 2012, the Ontario Court of Appeal in Canada (Attorney General) v Bedford (“Bedford”)4 found the sections of the Criminal Code5 related to keeping a common bawdy-house6 and living off the avails of prostitution7 inconsistent with section 7 of the Charter.8 Communicating for the purposes of prostitution9 remains illegal, although this too was struck down at the trial level.10 Leave to appeal and cross-appeal the Bedford decision was granted by the SCC in October of 2012.11
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.016 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.015 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".