Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article analyzes the role played by crime victims in social control in the postindustrial United States in the last three decades of the 20th century. Through a synthesis between Zygmunt Bauman’s work on late modernity and Pierre Dardot’s and Christian Laval’s conceptualization of neoliberalism, the article reviews the increasing centrality of the crime victim in penal discourse, particularly in light of the ‘aesthetic turn’ proposed by Bauman and others as representing a deep transition in the way social problems and political actions are understood. More precisely, a society governed by aesthetics is concerned with superficial manifestations of social harms. As such, under this aesthetic turn, public attitudes and criminal justice policies in the United States since the 1970s have related to ideal victims who are devoid of social context. Victims play a symbolic role in amplifying punitive emotions but are denied meaningful services. The article concludes with a call to rethink the ethos of the victim with an eye toward reducing the structural pathologies, such as inequality, poverty, or racial discrimination, that inflict so much harm on so many.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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 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".