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Record W4307876848 · doi:10.29173/invoke49007

Demonized and Ungrievable Lives of Lifers and Death Row Inmates

2022· article· en· W4307876848 on OpenAlexvenueaboutno aff
Téa Lewis

Bibliographic record

VenueINvoke · 2022
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCriminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGriefDisenfranchised griefIndigenousCriminologyPoliticsPopulationSociologyPrisonVulnerability (computing)Social psychologyGender studiesPsychologyPolitical scienceLawPsychotherapist

Abstract

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This paper makes a conceptual application of grievability from the disenfranchisement, stigmatization and disposal that lifers, death row inmates and their loved one's experience. First, I examine the work of Doka who recognizes “disenfranchised grief” as the significant losses that result in grief that is not “openly acknowledged, socially validated, or publicly mourned” (Doka, 1989, p. 224). This theory is applicable to avenues in which personal experiences of grief are discordant with society's grieving rules, as an individual or their loved one is going through the carceral system in Canada or the US. Lifers, death row inmates and their loved ones, reflect typologies that determine experiences of disenfranchised grief, and are arguably classified as an ungrievable typology that forces them to be demonized. Next, I will examine Butler's claims that community, recognition and reciprocal exchanges could offer a critical lens that acknowledge the grievability, shared experiences of vulnerability, and history of victimization for those within the carceral system. However, disposal, the logic of elimination and unequal conception of “human” (Butler, 2003), prevent the rehabilitation of lifers and death row inmates, and perpetuate an ungrievable prison population. Lastly, I examine Park's piece that states that the goal of "transitional justice” must be the decolonization of Indigenous peoples in Canada. This begins with the "decolonization of the mind” by reconceptualizing Indigenous lives as grievable and mobilizing grief as a political resource (Park, 2015, p. 273). Similarly, I believe that the same reconceptualization and use of grief as a political resource, is necessary to achieve transitional justice for lifers and death row inmates in the US. The paper explains how lifers, death row inmates and their loved ones, are demonized by the lack of greivability, community and recognition that they are awarded.

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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)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.017
Threshold uncertainty score0.024

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0170.035
Scholarly communication0.0070.007
Open science0.0010.020
Research integrity0.0020.007
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.025
GPT teacher head0.291
Teacher spread0.265 · 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 designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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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