Youth and Adult Correctional Intervention
20 A professional program training students in an interdisciplinary curriculum of study in law, psychology, social work and criminology. terms
Words or terms related to young and adult correctional intervention
- accomplice
- Noun
- an associate in wrongdoing, especially one who aids or abets another in a criminal act
- Example: she's an accomplice
- en: complice
- authority
- Noun
- a person or an organization having power or control in a particular, typically political or administrative, sphere
- Example: the autorities didn't allow us to enter
- en: autorités
- Cell
- Noun
- A small room in which a prisoner is locked up
- Example: He is in a cell
- en: cellule
- Criminality
- Noun
- A criminal act or practice
- Example: Rates of criminality have increased these past years.
- en: Criminalité
- Delinquency
- noun
- failure to do what law or duty requires
- Example: Teenagers often tend to use delinquency to obtain something they want.
- en: Délinquance
- Drug
- Noun
- Any substance taken for its narcotic or stimulant effects.
- Example: They take drugs
- en: Drogue
- Halfway house
- Noun
- A place to allow convicted criminals to begin the process of reintegration with society
- Example: he went to a halfway house
- en: maison de transitions
- Jail
- Noun
- A place for the confinement of people accused or convicted of a crime
- Example: He went to jail.
- en: Prison
- Law
- Noun
- The system of rules that a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce bye the imposition of penalties
- Example: follow the law
- en: droit
- Mental health
- Noun
- the psychological state of someone who is functioning at a satisfactory level of emotional and behavioral adjustment
- Example: im taking care of my mental health
- en: santé mentale
- murder
- Noun
- the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another
- Example: its was classified as a murder
- en: meurtre
- Prisoner
- Noun
- A person legally held in prison as a punishment for crimes they have committed or while awaiting trial.
- Example: The prisoners are on their lunch break
- en: prisonier
- rehabilitation center
- Noun
- A facility providing therapy and training for rehabilitation.
- Example: He is going to a rehabilitation center
- en: Centre de rehabilitation
- sexual abuse
- Noun
- Forcing undesired sexual behavior by one person upon another
- Example: treating survivors of child SEXUAL ABUSE
- en: abus sexuel
- Social work
- Noun
- organized work directed towards the betterment of social conditions in the community.
- Example: Social workers help people solve and cope with problems in their everyday lives.
- en: Travail social
- Sue
- Noun
- To get a court of law to force a person, company, or organization that has treated you unfairly or hurt you in some way to give you something or to do something.
- Example: She sued you.
- en: poursuivre en justice
- therapy
- Noun
- the treatment of disease or disorders
- Example: I need to go to therapy.
- en: therapie
- Victim
- Noun
- Person who has experienced a personal injury.
- Example: She's a victim
- en: Victime
- Violence
- Noun
- Rough or injurious physical force, action or treatment
- Example: You don't obtain what you want with violence.
- en: violence
- young
- Noun
- Being in first or early stage of life or growth; younth; not old
- Example: The young kids are playing
- en: Jeune