Facing the Dark Side of Society: Identifying Sexual Offenders’ Reasoning in the West Bank of Palestine
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study aimed to develop a profile of male sex offenders in Palestinian society, by using a qualitative research approach. A sample of 37 sex offenders institutionalized in different Palestinian rehabilitation centers, including the Dar Al-Amal Juvenile Rehabilitation Center in Ramallah, were interviewed. Data was collected using interviews, observations, and the examination of each offender’s case files, which included sociodemographic data, physical and mental health, inmate risk assessment, and a psychopathy checklist. Findings showed that the offenders belong to a relatively homogeneous group in terms of demographic and criminal data. The majority are married, aged 18-27 years and 50 years or older at the time of committing the crime, have low levels of education, and the most common crime committed is rape. Most of them have no relationship with the victim, come from broken families, and have suffered abuse and torture by their families and Israeli Occupation forces at an early age. They have a history of anti-social behaviour. The results also showed clear cognitive distortions and imbalances as well as some individuals suffering from psychiatric disorders and disturbances.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.005 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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 teacher head, 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".