Take My Breath Away: Competing Contexts between Domestic Violence, Kink and the Criminal Justice System in R. v. J.A.
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Abstract
English Abstract: In the R. v. J.A. case, a man was criminally convicted for performing sexual activities on his partner while she was rendered unconscious through erotic asphyxiation. Evaluating the legal and ethical stakes of the case is challenging because the complainant changed her testimony from non-consent to consent at trial, and the couple’s history includes both kinky sex and domestic violence. In this paper, I problematize the legal reasoning of the trial judgment (R. v .A.(J.) 2008 ONCJ 195), the Supreme Court of Canada’s majority decision ([2011] 2 S.C.R. 440), as well as the LEAF factum, and some of the feminist commentary. I argue that both the legal and the feminist discourses privilege domestic and sexual violence as the preeminent context in this case, erase or gloss over kinky eroticism and subjectivity, and advance a carceral politics that privileges the criminal justice system as an articulator of truth, and a vehicle for gender justice.Spanish Abstract: En el caso R. v. J.A., se condeno penalmente a un hombre por llevar a cabo actividades sexuales con su pareja, despues de dejarla inconsciente mediante asfixia erotica. Evaluar las implicaciones legales y eticas del caso es un reto, porque la querellante cambio en el juicio su testimonio del no consentimiento al consentimiento, y la historia de la pareja incluye tanto el fetichismo sexual como la violencia domestica. En este articulo se problematiza sobre el razonamiento juridico de la sentencia (R. v. A. (J.) 2008 ONCJ 195), la decision mayoritaria del Tribunal Supremo de Canada ([2011] 2 RCS 440), asi como el factum LEAF, y algunos de los comentarios feministas. Se sostiene que tanto los discursos juridicos como los feministas consideran la violencia domestica y sexual como el contexto preeminente en este caso, borran o disimulan el fetichismo erotico y la subjetividad, y promueven una politica penitenciaria en la que el sistema de justicia penal es articulador de la verdad y vehiculo para la justicia de genero.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.007 | 0.014 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.045 | 0.029 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.017 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.009 |
| Research integrity | 0.011 | 0.014 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
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.
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".