Glossary About Youth and Adult Correctionnal Intervention Program
This glossary can help people who are interested in my study program to understand the vocabulary related to my field of study.
- addiction
- noun
- The fact or condition of being addicted to a particular substance, thing, or activity.
- Example: Although Dorian shows no signs of alcohol addiction, his endless pursuit of beauty is nonetheless equally as consuming.
- fr: dépendance
- alcoholism
- noun
- Excessive and repetitive drinking of alcoholic beverages to the extent that the drinker repeatedly is harmed or harms others.
- Example: Anomie has been linked to suicide, crime, delinquency, mental disorders, alcoholism and drug addiction.
- fr: alcoolisme
- conflict
- noun
- A serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one.
- Example: The conflict between this wish for sexual gratification and the fear of castration is what Freud believed was causing Wolf-Man's anxiety (Freud, 1973).
- fr: conflit
- correctionnal
- adjective
- Relating to the punishment of criminals in a way intended to rectify their behavior.
- Example: This criminal lives in a correctionnal center.
- fr: correctionnel
- criminal
- noun
- A person who has committed a crime.
- Example: Belmayne finds himself slowly drawn to Marie, battling with his conscious about wanting to find the criminal and wanting to fall for her.
- fr: criminel
- delinquent
- adjective
- (typically of a young person or that person's behavior) showing or characterized by a tendency to commit crime, particularly minor crime.
- Example: A child that during adolescence exhibits delinquent behaviour may be doing so because they were not securely attached to their main caregiver.
- fr: délinquant(e)
- drug
- noun
- A medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body.
- fr: drogue
- homeless
- adjective
- (of a person) without a home, and therefore typically living on the streets.
- Example: Women, on the other hand, were poorly treated by the New Deal at first; the Hundred Days did nothing for the 140,000 homeless women and girls or the 4 million unemployed.
- fr: sans-abri
- inmate
- noun
- A person confined to an institution such as a prison or hospital.
- Example: An inmate is waiting in his cell.
- fr: prisonnier
- intervention
- noun
- The action of becoming intentionally involved in a difficult situation, in order to improve it or prevent it from getting worse.
- Example: With this in mind, further research should be undertaken to refine possible intervention measures that may improve the emotional well-being and psychological development of socially rejected children.
- fr: intervention
- law
- noun
- The 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: A reversal of the current relationship between Legislature and Executive is also commended by proposing that the Executive must be "placed under the power of a democratically renewed Parliament and all agencies of the state under the rule of law.
- fr: loi
- mental health
- noun
- A person’s condition with regard to their psychological and emotional well-being.
- Example: Not only will exercise aid weight loss, but regular physical activity throughout life is associated with better physical and mental health and well-being.
- fr: santé mentale
- prevention
- noun
- The action of stopping something from happening or arising.
- Example: The Judges while formulating the ratio decidendi focus on the uniform interpretation of Convention Rights and advantages of DNA samples as a form of evidence along with their role in facilitating the detection and prevention of criminal activities.
- fr: prévention
- prison
- noun
- A building in which people are legally held as a punishment for a crime they have committed or while awaiting trial.
- 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.
- fr: prison
- prostitution
- noun
- The practice or occupation of engaging in sexual activity with someone for payment.
- Example: There are those who take the view that "sex tourism, mail-order-brides and prostitution are variations on the theme of sexual exploitation.".
- fr: prostitution
- resource
- noun
- A source of supply, support, or aid, especially one that can be readily drawn upon when needed.
- Example: In this approach the client is seen to be the expert of their own situation and the therapist is a resource who can contribute by means of 'special knowledge, skills, and access to information or resources'.
- fr: ressource
- sentence
- noun
- The punishment assigned to a defendant found guilty by a court, or fixed by law for a particular offense.
- Example: Put the matter in another perspective; "was there ever yet a criminal who, when sentenced to death and brought out to die, would refuse the offer of a commutation of his sentence for the severest secondary punishment"?
- fr: sentence
- therapy
- noun
- The treatment of mental or psychological disorders by psychological means.
- Example: He goes in therapy to help himself with his depression.
- fr: thérapie
- violence
- noun
- Behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something.
- Example: This campaign aims to tackle violence against women in the family and in conflict post conflict situations across the globe.
- fr: violence
- youth
- noun
- The period between childhood and adult age.
- Example: In the second study, Huesman, Moise-Titus, Podolski and Aron (2003), longitudinally examined the viewing patterns of children aged six to nine, and found that fifteen years later, exposure to violence and aggression on television in youth leads to such behaviour in later life.
- fr: jeunesse
