Introduction: Critical Prison Studies, Carceral Ethnography, and Human Rights: From Lived Experience to Global Action
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This collection of essays grew out of the workshop Critical Prison Studies, Carceral Ethnography, and Human Rights: From Lived Experience to Global Action held at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law (Oñati, Spain) in June 2016. The papers explore some of the challenges and possibilities of critical prison research, ranging from issues arising in university research ethics reviews to the limitations of penal reform efforts to end the practice of solitary confinement. Each essay is embedded in a different penal context: Australia, Italy, Russia, Canada, and the United States; and each contributes to broader discussions of critical prison research, utilizing new and old methods and sources, including the ‘netnography’ of prisoner websites and the archives of anti-carceral feminist campaigners. Collectively, the essays bring new insights and methods into scholarly and activist conversations aimed at understanding and responding to the harms of incarceration. Esta colección de ensayos se originó del seminario Critical Prison Studies, Carceral Ethnography, and Human Rights: from Lived Experience to Global Action, celebrado en el Instituto Internacional de Sociología Jurídica (Oñati, España), en junio de 2016. Los artículos analizan algunos de los desafíos y de las posibilidades de la investigación crítica penitenciaria, desde problemas relativos a la revisión ética de la investigación en universidades a las limitaciones de las reformas penales para acabar con el confinamiento aislado. Cada artículo tiene un contexto penal diferente – Australia, Italia, Rusia, Canadá y los Estados Unidos – y cada uno realiza una aportación al debate sobre la investigación crítica penitenciaria, utilizando métodos y fuentes que incluyen la netnografía de sitios web de prisioneros y los archivos de feministas anticarcelarias. Se aportan nuevos métodos y visiones a la conversación académica y activista encaminada a responder a los perjuicios del encarcelamiento. Available from: https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-0934
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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 | 0.003 | 0.009 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.016 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 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".