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Language and Gendered Violence in the Legal System

2025· other· en· W4416917807 on OpenAlex
Susan Ehrlich

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Bibliographic record

VenueThe Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics · 2025
Typeother
Languageen
Field
Topic
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsStatutory lawDomestic violenceIdeologySexual violenceCommon lawLaw reformPoison control

Abstract

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Abstract In spite of widespread statutory reform to rape and sexual assault laws within Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, and other legal systems derived from the British common law system, many feminist scholars and practitioners have lamented the failure of sexual assault and rape cases to live up to their statutory ideals. A similar situation exists with respect to domestic violence law reform: while domestic violence has been criminalized in many common law countries over the last number of decades, there are serious misunderstandings among police officers, lawyers, and judges about the complexities of relationships involving domestic violence. In this entry, then, my focus is not so much on feminist‐inspired statutory reform to gendered violence statutes, but rather on the linguistic and discursive dimensions of legal practices and processes that have contributed to the “nullifying” of that reform. Indeed, as this entry shows, there is much research to suggest that when women recount their experiences of sexual and/or domestic violence to paralegals, in police interviews or in courtrooms and/or when these recountings are transplanted into other sites within the legal system, such representations are (re)shaped by legal structures and categories and by problematic cultural ideologies of gender and sexuality.

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.765
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.007
GPT teacher head0.242
Teacher spread0.235 · 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

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