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Sexual Predator Laws and Their History

2020· book-chapter· en· W4210503914 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Daniel J. Brodsky

Bibliographic record

VenueOxford University Press eBooks · 2020
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicPsychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCriminologySex offenderSupreme courtLawPredatorPsychologySexual assaultCriminal lawPolitical sciencePoison controlHuman factors and ergonomicsPredation

Abstract

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This chapter describes sexual predator laws, comparing and contrasting the historical and contemporary attempts in the United States and Canada to address the risk created by individuals who engage in behaviors broadly characterized as sexually deviant. It considers the rationale for sentencing and the earliest attempts to bring “treatment” into the criminal dispositional formula for sex offenders. The chapter also looks at the impact that the choice of societal response has on risk assessment and evaluation in the two systems, including the assessment and commitment of juvenile offenders. It then discusses the current US practice of civil commitment for a person deemed to be a sexually violent predator, beginning with the US Supreme Court decision in Kansas v. Hendricks. The chapter compares and contrasts this practice with the Canadian approach of designating an offender as a dangerous offender or a long-term offender under the criminal law.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.170
Threshold uncertainty score0.338

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0050.010
Scholarly communication0.0040.003
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0020.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0150.002

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.

Opus teacher head0.045
GPT teacher head0.226
Teacher spread0.180 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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".

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