“Cruel Injustice”: Infanticide and Compassion in Upper Canada, 1791–1831
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Using two comparatively well documented cases of suspected infanticide in Upper Canada, this article considers the role of compassion. In re-examining infanticide in Upper Canada (1791–1841) to 1831 when the statutory law on infanticide changed to try newborn murders exclusively as homicide, I focus here on a small number of newborn murder cases tried as either infanticide or homicide centering on the comparatively well documented cases of Angelique Pilotte and Mary Thompson. The article builds on recent historiographical developments in understanding English infanticide law as well as new research on the history of emotions and race to suggest that compassion can be understood as a vector for power and a part of an affective domain of domination.
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Full frame distilled prediction
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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 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) | 0.002 | 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 it