Catherine Cox and Hilary Marland. <i>Disorder Contained: Mental Breakdown and the Modern Prison in England and Ireland, 1840–1900</i>.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Charles Reade’s 1856 novel It is Never too Late to Mend portrayed the English prison as a brutal, dehumanizing regime that existed beneath the slightest veneer of order and respectability. Reade vividly portrayed how the prison “crank” system and the “separate system” could drive even the most easygoing man to the brink of madness. Reade always insisted his novels were grounded in practical research and the realities of the moment. Catherine Cox and Hilary Marland’s recent work would seem to vindicate Reade’s message. These scholars have a long history of collaboration and the book’s seamless narrative voice demonstrates a fruitful partnership. The historiographies of the Irish and English nations are often distinct, even for the nineteenth century, as are the histories of the prison and asylum systems. The authors convincingly demonstrate how despite the archival challenges, breaking down these boundaries is worth the effort. Disorder Contained traces the intertwined relationship between the formation of the modern prison system and its association with the exacerbation or creation of mental breakdowns. They demonstrate the complex, intertwined relationship between carceral power and medical authority. The benefits of the transnational approach is that the reader can see how particular orders and regulations were reinterpreted and adjusted in different national, and even regional, contexts.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.002 |
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.
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".