The Global and the Local: Precautionary Behaviours in the Realms of Crime, Heath and Home Safety
Bibliographic record
Abstract
We draw on Hollway and Jefferson’s (1997) idea that global anxieties may find an outlet for individual expression in the realm of crime: we argue that anxieties may also find expression in the realms of ill-health and home safety. To accomplish this, we examine preventative and protective behaviours that individuals undertake in each of these realms as outlets for the expression of anxiety. We consider how personal characteristics, such as age, as well as past experiences, present coping styles, and anxieties about future events contribute to protective behaviours within each realm, running separate models for men and women. Our findings suggest that different factors drive these precautionary behaviours for men and women, and across the different realms. Present coping styles (for men) and anxieties about future events (both men and women) seem to be most important in the realm of crime. In terms of health promotion, certain aspects of socio-demographic context are important, along with biographical factors such as past experience for men, and coping styles and anxieties for women. Meanwhile, socio-demographic context is most clearly at play in the realm of home safety, again with particular past experiences, present coping styles (men only) and anxieties also figuring in the mix. Our study of these realms sheds further light on Holloway and Jefferson’s conclusions regarding anxiety in the ‘risk society’, as well as enhances our understandings of risk management as gendered.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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