20 Youth and Adult Correctional Intervention terms
This glossary contains words that people who work in intervention will use daily.
abuse
verb
Treat (a person or an animal) with cruelty or violence, especially regularly or repeatedly.
Example: Mrs Joe has a strikingly violent nature, Pip mentions that he was, 'brought up by hand' and by this, the reader acknowledges that this refers to some kind of physical ABUSE, confirmed when, 'Tickler' is revealed to be a stick with which he is beaten.
en: abuser de
addiction
noun
The fact or condition of being addicted to a particular substance, thing, or activity.
Example: It is thought that these congeners that are also partly responsible for hangovers, and there have also been investigations into their relationship with alcohol ADDICTION (Clark & Krika 1979).
en: dépendance
child protection
phrase
The safeguarding of children from violence, exploitation, abuse, and neglect.
Example: He is currently on the CHILD PROTECTION Register after being physically abused by his father. 's father is now in prison for unrelated assault charges, and Miss has a strained relationship with him.
en: protection de l'enfance
community centre
phrase
A place where people from a particular community can meet for social, educational, or recreational activities.
Example: The project opened a social cultural COMMUNITY CENTRE and provided support to workers that were fleeing abusive brothel owners or pimps.
en: centre communautaire
correction
noun
Punishment, especially that of criminals in prison intended to rectify their behavior.
Example: If ye be without CORRECTION, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards and not sons.
en: correction
crime
noun
An action or omission that constitutes an offense that may be prosecuted by the state and is punishable by law.
Example: Here is Euripides himself pointing out that even the barbarians, these savage outsiders, would not commit such a CRIME against their own blood.
en: crime
delinquency
noun
Minor crime, especially that committed by young people.
Example: 'Eating badly' has been linked to anti-social behaviour and even juvenile DELINQUENCY (Lupton, 1996, p.77).
en: délinquance
drug
noun
A medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body.
Example: Anomie has been linked to suicide, crime, delinquency, mental disorders, alcoholism and DRUG addiction.
en: drogue
educator
noun
A person who provides instruction or education; a teacher.
Example: The word midwife means 'with women' and this is one of the main roles that has always been provided by the midwife (Sweet, 2003), but modern day midwifery is changing again from that of a physical carer back to role of an EDUCATOR, counsellor and supporter of women and their families in a time of changing relationships (Pride,1995).
en: éducateur, éducatrice
empathy
noun
The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
Example: The child continued to play on the floor with the nurse and made a comment which I thought showed EMPATHY and sensitivity; when she changed position he asked "are your legs tired?".
en: empathie
homeless
noun
(Of a person) without a home, and therefore typically living on the streets.
Example: Many US states had laws for the sterilisation of the "feebleminded", for example, including epileptics, manic-depressives, prostitutes, alcoholics, the HOMELESS and criminals, and the 1924 Immigration Restriction Act prevented people of certain ethnic backgrounds entering the country.
en: sans-abri
intervention
noun
The act or fact of taking action about something in order to have an effect on its outcome.
Example: Government INTERVENTION is evident by taxes, subsidies and other regulations such as tariff and non-tariff barriers.
en: intervention
mental health
phrase
A person’s condition with regard to their psychological and emotional well-being.
Example: The National Service Framework for MENTAL HEALTH (DoH 1999) also states that there is a need for psychosocial interventions in the treatment of Schizophrenia.
en: santé mentale
penitentiary
noun
A prison for people convicted of serious crimes.
Example: The fact that by 1840 this had been terminated as a form of punishment indicated that there was no longer a belief in its validity as a form of punishment and rehabilitation and instead a more Enlightenment-influenced PENITENTIARY system was introduced.
en: pénitencier
prison
noun
A building in which people are legally held as a punishment for a crime they have committed or while awaiting trial.
Example: In Canada, there is not a significant history of women with disabilities in PRISON.
en: prison
probation
noun
The release of an offender from detention, subject to a period of good behavior under supervision.
Example: In Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland between 40-50% of the black male population between the ages of 18 and 15 is at any given moment either in prison, on PROBATION, parole or there is a warrant out for their arrest .
en: probation
psychiatric
adjective
Relating to mental illness or its treatment.
Example: The control group received routine PSYCHIATRIC care, while the experimental group received an integrated programme of motivational interviewing, cognitive behavioural therapy and family caregiver intervention in addition to routine PSYCHIATRIC care.
en: psychiatrique
rehabilitate
verb
Restore (someone) to health or normal life by training and therapy after imprisonment, addiction, or illness.
Example: This argument perhaps hints that institutions achieve exactly what they are intended to remedy, that is, they completely remove the potential for the patient to REHABILITATE their sense of 'self'.
en: réhabiliter
victim
noun
A person harmed, injured, or killed as a result of a crime, accident, or other event or action.
Example: Whilst outwardly polite and respectful to his VICTIM; 'calling him by name in a hearty tone, and inquiring how he had passed the night,' the narrator remains consumed by revulsion and loathing.
en: victime
youth centre
phrase
A place or organization providing leisure activities for young people.
