Theorising desistance-promotion in circle processes: the role of community in identity transformation
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Abstract
In the desistance research thus far, a relatively consistent finding is that those who desist from crime have gone through a transformation in identity. One means of aiding in this process that has been under-researched is the restorative circle process. The current article provides a theoretical framework for how circle processes may enable prisoners to undergo identity transformations. The redemption narrative is discussed in terms of how prisoners' participation in circle processes may help to fulfil primary goods by uncovering their true selves, regaining agency over their lives and providing avenues for generativity. Crucial to the relationship between circle processes and the redemption narrative is that interpersonal relationships and participation in community may catalyse identity transformation. As such, this article argues that both personal and social identity are relevant to this process; becoming part of a community during a circle process can help enculturate prisoners to prosocial values and reciprocity.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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