Child rape as a crime against humanity: challenging the United States Supreme Court reasoning in<i>Kennedy</i>v.<i>Louisiana</i>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper argues, in accord with evolving international human rights jurisprudence, that child rape is a form of torture and meets the criteria for a crime against humanity even when committed by a private individual if part of a pattern within the State. Hence, the view of the majority of the Supreme Court of the United States (USSC) in Kennedy v. Louisiana that child rape where there is no loss of life is a crime of lesser moral depravity than is homicide or certain non-homicide crimes against the State is fallacious. It is respectfully argued that the majority in Kennedy inappropriately conflated the issue of the constitutionality or lack of constitutionality of the death penalty for non-homicide crimes with the issue of the assessment of the gravity of the crime of child rape per se where there is no loss of life. It is contended further that the latter USSC faulty analysis creates a diminution of the factual reality of child rape and undermines respect for the human dignity of the child.
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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 | 0.003 | 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 | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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; a candidate call from one teacher head, 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".