An Indigenous court in S'ólh Téméxw: a transferability assessment
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Abstract
There have been several Indigenous initiatives established in response to the overrepresentation of Indigenous people in the justice system and to deliver culturally appropriate services (Government of Canada, 2016, para. 7). Although there are two Indigenous initiatives in Chilliwack, including the Native Courtworker and Counselling Association of BC and Qwí:qwelstóm Wellness, there are still gaps in connecting Indigenous people involved in the court system to community-based justice and wellness services. In 2018, Qwí:qwelstóm Wellness hosted a meeting and invited former Chief Judge Thomas Crabtree to present on the purpose of an Indigenous court and the feasibility of establishing a court in Chilliwack. When the proposed initiative was presented to the Stó:lō political leadership, they requested additional information, including the potential risks of having an Indigenous court in Chilliwack and assessing the transferability of existing models and practices to the proposed court in Chilliwack. A transferability assessment was undertaken to determine the extent to which practices from Indigenous court models found in British Columbia could be transferred to a proposed Indigenous court in Chilliwack. Qualitative research for this Major Paper was completed through interviews with the participants who have roles within Stó:lō Nation and some existing Indigenous courts. There are six common aspects of Indigenous courts that are believed to be essential to their success, including the inclusion of local Indigenous culture, the Elders’ role, the victim’s role, the strengthening of relationships between the court and the Indigenous community, the clients’ greater and easier access to community resources, and the consideration of Gladue principles. This major paper presents a transferability analysis and offers suggestions for consideration during the establishment of an Indigenous court in S’ólh Téméxw.
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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 | 0.086 | 0.147 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.007 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.020 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.012 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.018 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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.
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".