Educating the Jury: Mental Illness and Criminal Responsibility in the Canadian Courtroom
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study explored juror stigma towards defendants with mental illness (MI), and examined the impact of education on juror decision-making in Not Criminally Responsible on account of Mental Disorder (NCRMD) cases in Canada. Four-hundred and eighty-six participants received two forms of education (MI or diabetes, and NCRMD or duress), read an NCRMD trial transcript in which the defendant's MI was manipulated, and provided a verdict (NCRMD or guilty), defendant perceptions, MI attitudes, and NCRMD attitudes. Continuous analyses revealed that MI and NCRMD education did not have a combined effect on defendant perceptions, MI stigma, or decision-making in NCRMD cases. Path analysis revealed that MI type was directly and indirectly related to guilt certainty via MI attitudes and defendant perceptions. However, NCRMD attitudes did not have an effect on verdicts. Results imply that MI attitudes are deeply ingrained in social and cultural norms and are not amenable to change despite education.
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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 | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 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)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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