The Scotia Project: roles of alcohol in intimate partner violence (IPV)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Objectives: The Scotia Project aims to investigate victim and perpetrator experiences around alcohol and IPV, and how alcohol may impact on coercive control within IPV relationships. The project seeks to establish the extent to which existent policies and programmes are working for victims and perpetrators of IPV, and how we might incorporate problematic alcohol use into these.<br/>Design: Mixed-methods design, incorporating statistical analysis of Strathclyde Police’s databases (2004-2012); existent questionnaires (AUDIT; CTS2: ARAQ); and semi-structured interviews. Police database analysis and questionnaires will provide quantification of problematic alcohol use, severity of experiences around IPV, and levels of links between alcohol and IPV. Interviews will explore social constructions of alcohol use and domestic abuse, and subjective personal experiences of the co-morbidity of alcohol and IPV.<br/>Method: Recruitment of n=120 participants is being conducted across three nominal categories: ‘Convicted’ (critical experiences of IPV, recruited via prisons and victims’ services), ‘Conflicted’ (pre-critical experiences of IPV, recruited via couples’ counselling services), and ‘Content’ (non-critical experiences of IPV, recruited through general population). Forty participants are being recruited to each category to complete questionnaires, with n=10 from each category being retained for qualitative interview.<br/>Results: Statistical trends from police IPV data will be discussed, alongside practical and ethical issues in researching such problematic populations.<br/>Conclusions: Current service provision may underestimate the extent to which victims of IPV utilise alcohol for coping purposes. Intervention programmes tend to be focused on either alcohol or IPV. Multi-agency working provides the greatest assistance to victims and families involved in IPV.<br/>
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 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".