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Record W2186986998

The Canadian 'Get Tough' Discourse Needs a Hard Look Too

2014· article· en· W2186986998 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Heather Sanguins

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCriminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPrisonPoliticsCriminologyValuation (finance)Work (physics)Representation (politics)Political scienceSociologyLawEconomics
DOInot available

Abstract

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This paper considers the discrepancy between 'get tough' approaches to crime, primarily in the U.S. and Canada, and the reality of who is being incarcerated. Reports from multiple jurisdictions indicate that rates of violent crime are declining generally for men and increasing for women, but there is no consensus that the 'get tough' approach is responsible for the decline or increase, and there is little political recognition of the need to address the imbalance in incarceration. The paper focuses on how 'get tough' discourses are perpetuated through selective valuation of 'evidence.' It is found that all evidence is not weighed or weighted equally in policies and practices, especially evidence of the over-representation of certain groups in prison populations. It is recommended that future studies address the larger socio-economic and political contexts and purposes of, and expectations for, incarceration through transdisciplinary work that expands the discussion.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.011
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.027
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.135
Threshold uncertainty score0.982

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0110.027
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0040.005
Science and technology studies0.0420.035
Scholarly communication0.0240.008
Open science0.0040.006
Research integrity0.0080.013
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0090.001

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 head0.018
GPT teacher head0.300
Teacher spread0.282 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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Published2014
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