This glossary will help people to understand better the program of Youth and Adult Correctional Intervention
addiction center
noun
Addiction is a complex disease, often chronic in nature, which affects the functioning of the brain and body.
Example: An addiction heavily impacts the way a person thinks, feels and acts. Many individuals with addictive disorders are aware of their problem, but have difficulty stopping on their own.
fr: Centre de toxicomanie
Addiction center
noun
Addiction is a complex disease, often chronic in nature, which affects the functioning of the brain and body. It also causes serious damage to families, relationships, schools, workplaces and neighborhoods.
Example: A drug and alcohol treatment guide, created in partnership with the Canadian Centre
fr: Centre de toxicomanie
behavioral problems
noun
symptomatic expression of emotional or interpersonal maladjustment especially in children (as by nail-biting, enuresis, negativism, or by overt hostile or antisocial acts)
Example: In contrast, full-term infants reported little relationship to behavioral problems
fr: Problèmes de comportements
correctional officer
noun
A corrections officer is an officer responsible for the custody, safety, security, and supervision of inmates in a prison or any other correctional facility.
Example: Corrections officer is the term for a uniformed official,
fr: Agent correctionnel
Criminology
the scientific study of crime and criminals.
Example: As Crick (1976: 123) has argued, "criminology (like anthropology), is largely concerned with systems of classification".
fr: Criminologie
delinquent peers
adjective
Peer Delinquent Behavior items are a subset of those used by the Rochester Youth Study (Thornberry et al., 1994) to assess the degree of antisocial activity among the adolescent's peers
Example: Peer pressure leads toward juvenile delinquency. Peers lead individuals to indulge in criminal activities.
fr: pairs délinquants
group home for teenagers
noun
Group homes provide therapy, 24-hour supervision and support to troubled teens in a home-like setting.
Example: Group homes are considered less restrictive than juvenile detention centers but more restrictive than family foster care placements.
fr: Foyer de groupe pour adolescents
halfway house
noun
a center for helping former drug addicts, prisoners, psychiatric patients, or others to adjust to life in general society.
Example: In assuming the '"adequate" or "appropriate" operational definitions' (Silverman 1972: 177), staff of the "halfway house" avoided facing up to the existential question of where this appropriateness was derived from.
fr: maison de transition
intervention
noun
the act of interfering with the outcome or course especially of a condition or process (as preventing harm or improve functioning)
Example: In a non-Western context, it normally reflects a direct intervention of Western powers through colonization.
fr: intervention
Jail
noun
a place for the confinement of people accused or convicted of a crime.
Example: This samba's going to end in jail' PatrÃcia Galvão, 'Where They about Rosa Luxemburg', in The Brazil Reader, p. 166.
fr: prison
law
noun
he system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties.
Example: He then went to Nottingham Trent Polytechnic to read English, History and law but dropped out after a year as he got "writer's block" in the exam.
fr: lois
mental health
noun
a person’s condition with regard to their psychological and emotional well-being.
Example: By providing residents' choice of visually preferred environment in the outdoors can influence their emotions, which in turn may have an effect on their physical and mental health.
fr: santé mental
penitentiary
noun
prison for people convicted of serious crimes.
Example: As Merton (1957: 141) sees some corporate misbehaviour, "it is not easy to say whether it is an instance of praiseworthy salesmanship or a penitentiary offence".
fr: pénitencier
psychology
noun
the scientific study of the human mind and its functions, especially those affecting behavior in a given context.
Example: Jung's psychology of Individuation.
fr: psychologie
public security
noun
Public security is the function of governments which ensures the protection of citizens, persons in their territory, organizations, and institutions against threats to their well-being –
Example: Two years later, he was appointed public security minister and sixth deputy premier.
fr: Sécurité publique
Self defense
defense of one's person or interests, especially through the use of physical force, which is permitted in certain cases as an answer to a charge of violent crime.
Example: The Old Guard also disapproved of CORE and SNCC new resolutions on self defense, as the Old Guard had always remained convicted to a policy of nonviolence.
fr: Auto-défense
shelter for women victims of violence
noun
A women's shelter, also known as a women's refuge and battered women's shelter, is a place of temporary protection and support for women escaping domestic violence and intimate partner violence of all forms.
Example: Women's shelters help individuals escape these instances of domestic violence
fr: centre d'hébergement pour femmes victimes de violence
sociology
noun
the study of the development, structure, and functioning of human society.
Example: Chapter II reviews relevant sociological concepts and articulates a dramatistic political-sociology of death, concepts mainly derived from Emile Durkheim, Robert Hertz, and Arnold van Gennep on death and the sacred, Max Weber on violence and politics, and Burke, Duncan, and Edelman's view of politics as symbolic action.
fr: sociologie
violent behavior
noun
Violent behaviour is any behaviour by an individual that threatens or actually harms or injures the individual or others or destroys property.
Example: Longitudinal Relations Between Children's Exposure to TV Violence and Their Aggressive and violent behavior in Young Adulthood: 1977-1992.
fr: comportements violent
Youth center
noun
school, detention and youth centers and those classified as "other" institutions.
Example: Kids who are under 18 and committed a crime
