Rehabilitation programs in Canadian prisons and films: Reality and representation
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis examines whether selected films showing rehabilitation of prisoners depict the rehabilitation process realistically. The thesis analyzes four American films that have rehabilitation as a predominant theme and compares the representation of reform in prison to the actual practice of rehabilitation in the Canadian prison system. Media analysis is concerned with decoding the often hidden messages in films that may reflect the dominant or hegemonic ideology. While media effects are controversial in cultural studies, it is important to analyze the messages before you can ask whether they have any effects. The thesis provides a detailed look at the storyline, themes and representation of rehabilitation in the four films. Rehabilitation in Canada is a complex process that includes the accreditation of specific programs and risk/need assessment, which matches inmate needs to specific program opportunities. Using interpretative analysis, I have found that there are more differences than similarities between the Canadian system and rehabilitation shown in films. The Canadian system puts an emphasis on group sessions and education whereas the fictional stories of the films put an emphasis on personal relationships. Films show a glamorized version of rehabilitation that emphasizes the ideology of individual responsibility for personal change.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.000 | 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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, 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".