Definitions Flashcards
Discrimination
Treating someone differently especially because of feelings or prejudices about their sex, race, religion, disability etc.
Disability
A person will be disabled if they have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and longterm adverse effect on their ability to carry out normal day to day activities, which would include things like using a telephone or going on public transport.
Ethnocentrism
The making of judgements about the behaviour and culture of others based upon your own culture as the norm - viewing others through the eyes of your own culture.
Gender reassignment.
A person is deemed to have the protected characteristics of gender reassignment if they are proposing to undergo, is undergoing, or has undergone a process (or part process) for the purpose of reassigning the persons sex by changing physiological or other attributes of sex.
Passive discrimination
Where a person witnesses discrimination taking place and disagrees with the discrimination but does not challenge it.
Pro-behaviour
Where a member of a minority group accepts discrimination without challenge or ‘turns a blind eye’ to it or laughs at a discriminatory joke.
Racial group
Is defined to reference to race, colour, nationality, ethnic origins and national origins.
Racist incident
Any incident that is perceived to be racist by the victim or any other person.
Sexual harassment.
Unwanted conduct of a sexual nature or other conduct based on sex affecting the dignity of woman and men at work.
Victimisation.
Where a person is treated less favourably because they have made a complaint based on the belief that they have been subjected to discriminatory practice or when another person supporting someone exercising their rights receives less favourable treatment as a result.
Credible witness
Is one whos evidence is held by the court to be trustworthy no matter how bad the character of the witness may be.
Evidence
Includes all legal names (exclusive or mere argument) which tends to prove or disprove the truth of the subject before the court.
Hearsay evidence
Is evidence at second hand given by a person who is merely repeating something said by another person.
Production
Includes all liquids, animal, document, article or other thing which is alleged to have some connection with a crime, offence or incident under review.
Warrant
An authority in writing issued by a Magistrate (JP or Sheriff) or other competent person, directing police officers to take a course of action which might not otherwise be lawful.
Abettor
Any person who incites, instigates, encourages or counsels another to commit a crime.
Accessory
Anyone who aides the perpetrator with advice or assistance before or at the time of the crime or who acts in concert by watching whilst the crime is committed.
Assault
A crime at common law and is every attack directed to take effect physically on the person of another whether or not actual injury is inflicted.
Attempt to pervert the course of justice.
A crime at common law which can be described as any overt and intentional action calculated, to interfere with either the normal investigation of a crime or the bringing of an offender to justice.
Breach of the peace
Is a crime at common law, and is constituted by one or more persons conducting himself or themselves in a riotous or disorderly manner, where such conduct is severe enough to cause alarm to ordinary people and threaten serious disturbance to the community.
Contempt of court.
An intentional disrespect or an action against the courts authority.
Culpable and reckless fire raising.
Is committed when property is set on fire as a result of a reckless act by the accused.
Culpable homocide
Is a crime at common law and it is committed by any person who unlawfully kills another person, where death is caused by improper conduct, but the guilt is less than murder.
Forgery and uttering.
A crime at common law and consists in the making and publishing of writing feloniously intended to represent and pass for the genuine writing of another person.
Fraud
Falsehood
Fraud
Wilful imposition.
Hate crime
A crime motivated by malice or ill will towards a social group.
Homicide
When a human being kills another human being. The victim must be self-existent, not an unborn child. But if the child has begun to breathe, it is immaterial that the death took place before complete delivery.
House.
Includes any dwelling house or other roofed building, finished or unfinished, or any part of a building used as a separate dweling, which is secured against intrusion by unauthorised persons.
Lockfast place.
Includes rooms, cupboards, drawers, safes, desks, cash-boxes, show cases and any other receptacle the contents of which are protected by lock and key.
malicious mischief
A crime at common law constituted by wilful, wanton, and malicious destruction of, or damage to the property of another.
Murder.
A crime at common law and is committed when a person kills another without necessary cause and where there is either an intention to kill or a wilful act so reckless as to show utter disregard for the consequences.
Offensive weapon
Includes any article made or adapted for the use of causing injury to the person or intended by the person having it with them for such use by either themselves or by some other person
Perjury
A crime at common law committed by any person who wilfully makes a false statement under oath or affirmation equivalent to oath.
Principal
Is the person who actually commits the crime.
Reset
Is a crime at common law committed by any person with intent to deprive the owner, to receive and keep property, knowing that it had been appropriated by theft, robbery, embezzlement or fraud.
Robbery
A crime at common law committed by any person who feloniously appropriates property, by means of violence or threats of violence.
Subornation of perjury
A crime at common law committed by any person who counsels or induces by any means, a person to give a false testimony in judicial proceedings.
Theft
A crime at common law and is the taking and appropriating of property without consent of the rightful owner or other lawful authority.
Vandalism (s52 criminal consolidation scotland act 1995)
Creates an offence for any person to wilfully or recklessly destroy or damage the property of another without reasonable excuse.
Wasting police time.
Is a crime at common law committed by any person who maliciously makes a false statement to the police with the intention and effect of causing unnecessary police investigation.
Wilful fireraising.
Committed when a person intentionally sets fire to any form of property.
Alcohol
Spirits, wine, beer, cider, or any other fermented, distilled or spiritous liquor but does not include alcohol which is of a strength of 0.5% or less, at the time of its sale.
Ammunition
Any ammunition for any firearm and includes grenades, bombs and other like missiles, whether capable of use with a firearm or not.
Controlled container
A container of any description which is or was capable of holding any liquid and is made from a material which, if the container were to be thrown or propelled at a person, could cause injury to that person.
Domestic abuse
Any form of physical, sexual or mental and emotional abuse which might amount to criminal conduct and which takes place within the context of a relationship. The relationship will be between partners (married, cohabiting, civil partnership or otherwise) or ex-partners. The abuse can be committed in the home or elsewhere.
Firearm
A lethal barrelled weapon of any description from which any shot, bullet or other missile can be discharged and includes any ‘prohibited weapon’ whether lethal barrelled or not, any ‘component part’ of such a lethal or prohibited weapon or any ‘accessory’ to such weapons which are designed or adapted to diminish the sound or flash caused by firing the weapon.
Missing person
Anyone who’s whereabouts are unknown, whatever the circumstances oft heir disappearance. They will be considered missing until located or their wellbeing or otherwise established.
Mobbing and rioting.
A mob is a group of person acting together for a common illegal purpose to the alarm of the lieges and in breach of the peace. It is a crime at common law to form part of a mob.
Occupancy rights
The right, if in occupation, to continue to occupy the matrimonial home. If not in occupation, a right to enter into and occupy the matrimonial home, and in either case the right to do so together with any child or family.
Period of a designated sporting event
A period which commences 2 hours before the start, or advertised start and is concluded one hour after the event.
Reckless discharge
A crime at common law for any person to recklessly discharge a firearm, whether or not actual injury is caused.
Relevant area (of a sports ground)
Any part of the ground to which spectators are granted access on payment or from which the event can be viewed directly.
Driving
A person is held to be driving when they have control of the speed and the direction of the vehicle.
Motor vehicle
Means a mechanically propelled vehicle, intended or adapted, for use on the roads.
Public road (as per vehicle excise & registration act 1994)
A road which a roads authority have a duty to maintain.
Road (as per Rta 1988 & 1991)
Any way (other than a waterway) over which there is a public right of passage (by whatever means) and whether subject to a toll or not and includes the roads verges and any bridges (whether permanent or temporary) over which, or tunnel through which, the road passes and any reference to a road includes the parts thereof.
