The Abolition of the Burning of Women in England Reconsidered1
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article argues that, while it is undoubtedly the case that self-consciously enlightened attitudes towards punishment, as well as increasingly idealized conceptions of womanhood, established the context for the abolition of the burning of women in England, these socio-cultural developments were decisively abetted by practical circumstances and principally advocated by a group of men -the sheriffs of London and Middlesex -whose appearance in the vanguard of reform may come as a surprise. The first part of this paper reviews the evidence that may be invoked to argue for the role of changing social and cultural imperatives, suggesting some of the difficulties (and even contradictions) that emerge from a closer reading of the evidence. The second section argues the centrality of hitherto neglected features of the story: the particular objections of the sheriffs charged with enforcing the criminal law;
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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 | 0.001 | 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 | 0.001 |
| 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 it