Conceptualizing police perceptions of the parents of youth in conflict with the law
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Abstract
Broadly defined as a member of society given certain rights and tasked with certain obligations from the state, it is clear throughout social sciences literature that the consideration of citizenship is tied to the age of majority. Within scholarship exploring what citizenship means for those under the age of majority, there has been little attention paid to the position of police in young people’s journeys toward citizenship. Drawing from qualitative data collected through one-on-one interviews and focus groups with rural Atlantic police officers, I build on youth citizenship literature by examining police officers’ interpretations of policing youth and their experiences interacting with the parents of youth. In the results, I document police officers’ perceptions of their authority and their perceptions of the authority of parents in addressing concerns with young people. A total of 128 police officer participants took part in the study; 76 participants engaged in one-on-one interviews and 52 participants took part in focus groups. Police in this sample discuss how they feel parents use police as a parenting tool, how they believe parents can contribute to youth accountability, and how they suggest parents can influence youth attitudes towards policing legislation. Drawing on theories of governance, I argue that police officers’ perceptions of the policing and parental management of youth behaviour reflect a view of young people as less than ideal citizens. Youth are considered unable to work toward the responsibilities required of an ideal citizen without the guidance and mentorship from authority figures such as parents and police working simultaneously in both the private and public arenas of young people’s lives. This suggests that better policing policy and practice should include engagement and communication between police and parents regarding the expected roles and responsibilities of each authority figure in young people’s lives.
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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 | 0.005 | 0.013 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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