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Record W2160063269

Truth Before Punishment: A Defence of Public Inquiries

2003· article· en· W2160063269 on OpenAlex
Gus Van Harten

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenueLSE Research Online · 2003
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCriminal Law and Evidence
Canadian institutionsYork University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCriticismPoliticsWitnessPunishment (psychology)Independence (probability theory)LawPolitical sciencePower (physics)Face (sociological concept)SociologyPsychologySocial psychologySocial science
DOInot available

Abstract

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Although the contributions made by public inquiries to the Canadian political process have been widely recognized, they have also received substantial criticism. In this paper, the author and, second, that they risk infringing the rights of inquiry witness who subsequently face criminal charges. Both of these criticisms relate to the exercise of coercive power by inquiries. The first criticism asserts that the elaborate procedures that accompany the exercise of coercive powers by an inquiry have become so extensive and ‘court-like’ as to make inquiries unwieldy. In response to the first criticism, the author argues that public inquiries have a continuing role to play in the Canadian political process. This is because an inquiry can deliver a level of thoroughness and independence that other public investigative processes cannot. The exercise of coercive powers, in particular, is an integral part of an inquiry’s capacity for credible fact-finding and forceful recommendations. This does not mean that an inquiry should be established whenever there is a political controversy. On the contrary, inquiries should be reserved for matters of grave public concern about an event that has had tragic or scandalous consequences.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.008
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.902
Threshold uncertainty score0.946

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.008
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.397
GPT teacher head0.519
Teacher spread0.122 · 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