The Socially Constructed Identity of Victims in the Past and Present
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Abstract
Victims have always been a part of the criminalization process. In recent times the introduction of victimology and the victim’s rights movement has influenced the importance and awareness of victim’s roles and treatment within legislation and society. The identity of a victim, however, is not natural. It is socially constructed. In this paper I employ a critical victimological lens to examine how victims of crime have been seen and treated historically. The historical analysis focuses on the late 19th and 20th century when the views of victims began to dramatically shift. By analyzing this historical social construction one can see more clearly how this identity is always changing. We can see how this applied label affects not only how victims see themselves but how the perception of other individuals and current legislation affects them as well. I argue that this historical understanding is necessary to make sense of contemporary policies and treatment. In this essay I will answer how the identity of victim constructed and continuously being constructed. Discipline: Sociology Honours Faculty Mentor: Dr. Amanda Nelund
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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 | 0.005 | 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 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 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