Chapter Seven. Old structures, new faces: The presence of Wicca and Neopaganism in canadian prison Chaplaincies
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Abstract
This chapter offers a glimpse of the relationships between Wiccan chaplaincy workers and the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC). Pagan volunteers and employees, mostly Wiccans, form part of the chaplaincy teams. Isolation, work and contemplation were judged as the most efficient way to reform a delinquent. The increasing numbers of prison inmates with a religious identity other than Christian brought about a modification in chaplaincy services. Chaplaincy work takes time and energy. Chaplains believe that it can have a beneficial effect on the inmates and will help in social readaptation and the society in general. Their work has an immediate and local impact, as well as far-reaching consequences. Relationships between inmates, chaplains and administration are positive as the shifting and diverse religious needs of prisoners are addressed. Though the traditional Christian faiths are still present, new faces are appearing within chaplaincy teams, reflecting a Canadian society which is religiously diverse.Keywords: Correctional Service of Canada (CSC); non-Christian groups; pagan; prison system; Wiccan chaplaincy workers
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.001 |
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".