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Record W2744220562 · doi:10.1093/ehr/cex095

Violence: A Modern Obsession, by Richard Bessel

2017· article· en· W2744220562 on OpenAlex
Gregory Hanlon

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Bibliographic record

VenueThe English Historical Review · 2017
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicViolence, Religion, and Philosophy
Canadian institutionsDalhousie University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHistorySpectacleCriminologyPoliticsEnlightenmentIntimidationModern warfarePsychologySociologyAestheticsLawPolitical scienceSocial psychologyArt

Abstract

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Richard Bessel discusses perceptions of violence in the modern western world and the modern perception that our own times are more violent than centuries past. The multitude of modern studies reflects the conviction that violence is inherently undesirable, a profound social evil that can be checked. He places the shift in attitudes to the Enlightenment era of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, but it was not until after the Second World War that the focus moved from group bloodletting to violence against the individual. It is never clear whether Bessel shares the attitudes he writes about or is merely content to reflect upon them. This is most problematic in his definition of violence, which slips rapidly from war, murder, assault, rape and physical attack to verbal aggression, intimidation, threats and belittlement felt subjectively. Violence can also include neglect, or acts of omission, on top of those of commission; profanation and irreverence are also cast onto the heap. Any situation of disharmony between two people might be categorised as violence. The underlying confusion of X=Y makes it difficult for the reader to seize the nettle of the problem. He deploys his reflections under eight headings, Spectacle, Religion, Revolution, Politics, War, Women and Children, Control and Memory. There is not much attempt at demonstration or even sustained analysis: these are reflections based on historical literature.

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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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.400
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
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 head0.039
GPT teacher head0.259
Teacher spread0.220 · 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