Bibliographic record
Abstract
in Criminology at the University of Essex, but she is no ordinary criminologist.As a result, these pages contain something far, far more than criminological analysis.The first thing that distinguishes her is that she was born and brought up in Calabria, the Italian region (the 'toe of the boot') which has been afflicted by its own mafia organization, the 'ndrangheta, since the 1880s and possibly even earlier.Moreover, Anna's father, Pantaleone Sergi, is one of the grandi firme, the 'great signatures' of Calabrian and Italian journalism; he is also a man who (as I can personally attest) is a mine of information and anecdotes about the 'ndrangheta, whose bloody history he has charted since the 1970s.For Anna, therefore, Europe's most powerful underworld network could never be just an object of analysis.It has been there from the earliest years her memory can reach, when it was something that surrounded her, something from which she could never be completely sheltered, something she sensed more than saw, something that has left her with questions to which she still seeks answers today.For all its deep Calabrian roots, the 'ndrangheta is the most global of criminal networks.Anna has followed it to its furthest outposts: Australia, Canada, the United States.At the same time, she has also explored its subtly varying manifestations in different parts of Calabria -that most centreless of Italian regions.The experience, as she candidly lays out in this book, could only be a test of emotion as well as of intellectual method and interpretation.Herein lies the great fascination of this highly unusual, ambitious and honest volume.It blends analytical reflection and travelogue, autobiography and exposition.Anna is never afraid to air doubts and uncertainties, to leave questions open when there is no definitive answer to be found, to think things through, to make an ally of doubt.Her writing is by turns scientific and poetic, denunciatory and meditative.Everywhere she travels, she finds distorting mirrors of her own Calabrian identity.The 'ndrangheta makes home seem strange and makes the foreign seem strangely familiar.At each stage of her journey, to be the criminologist she aspires to be, she has to
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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 | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.777 | 0.694 |
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".