Plural Policing and Access to Justice in Pacific Small Island Developing States: A Tuvaluan Case Study
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Abstract
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) present unique challenges and opportunities for law enforcement. Characteristics such as strong communal ties, social and cultural norms, limited state visibility, and strained resources impact the interpretation and application of state laws. At the same time, local legitimacy is often found in community-oriented approaches to policing and tailored law enforcement responses through parallel policing systems. While most research on plural policing in the Pacific SIDS has considered the larger Pacific Island countries in Melanesia, this paper focuses on how plural systems of law-and-order maintenance impact policing in Tuvalu, a microstate in Polynesia. Key stakeholders ( N = 23) including religious leaders, police officers and leaders, and community leaders from Tuvalu participated in semi-structured interviews. The findings highlight the significance of informal networks in influencing policing decisions. This influence has implications for action on the access to justice agenda, particularly concerning the use of police authority, equitable law enforcement practices, accountability, and fairness. The findings contribute to more inclusive discussions of plural policing and its nuanced impacts on access to justice in the Pacific SIDS.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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 it