“Is She Imminently Fleeing?”: How Discursive Practices Shape Crisis Center Service Delivery and Exacerbate Existing Vulnerabilities for Survivors
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Abstract
Within the U.S., the struggle for women's safety from intimate partner violence was brought into the national discourse with the Battered Women's Movement (BWM) of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Volunteer-run “safe homes” would soon become bureaucratized with the concomitant rise of the nonprofit industrial complex (NPIC) and the repression of larger socio-political movements. These forces resulted in today's 501(c)3 crisis centers which are governed by stringent service eligibility requirements that define the parameters of their practice. Informed by eight months of ethnographic field work at a rural crisis center in New England, this article analyzes one part of the nonprofitization of the BWM – that of professional discourse. Drawing on the work of Canadian feminist sociologist Dorothy Smith, I utilize the theoretical and methodological tenets of institutional ethnography (IE) to examine one dominant discursive practice – “Is she imminently fleeing?” This discursive practice reveals how officialdom adversely impacts survivors’ lives. This study contributes to our understanding of how language concretely plays out in the daily operations within the crisis center. This work builds on the literature that exposes the fault lines of the NPIC in the U.S. context and serves to expand the work of IE as a vital investigative research lens.
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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 |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| 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.
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