Protection and Wellbeing in Our Communities Definitions Flashcards
Mental Disorder
Any mental illness; personality disorder; or learning disability, however caused or manifested
Public Place
A place to which the public, or any section of the public has, or is permitted to have, access (whether on payment or otherwise); and includes the common parts of a building containing two or more separate dwelling
Place of Safety
A hospital, premises which are used to provide a care home service or any other suitable place (other than a Police station) where the occupier is willing to temporarily receive a person with mental disorder
Disablity
A physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on a person’s ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities
Discrimination
Treating someone differently, especially because of feeling or prejudices about their sex, race, religion, disability etc
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 characteristic of gender reassignment if they are proposing to undergo, is undergoing or has undergone a process (or part of a process) for the purpose of reassigning the person’s sex by changing physiological or other attributes of sex
Passive Descrimination
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 by reference to race, colour, nationality, ethnic origins or national origins
Sexual Harassment
Unwanted conduct of a sexual nature, or other conduct based on sex, affecting the dignity of women and men at work
Victimisation
A person is treated less favourably because they have made a complaint based on belief that they have been subjected to a discriminatory practice; or where another person supporting someone exercising their rights receives less favourable treatment as a result
Hate Crime
Any crime which is perceived by the victim or any other person, as being motivated (wholly or partly) by malice and ill-will towards a social group
Missing Person
Anyone whose whereabouts is unknown and;
- Where the circumstances are out of character; or
- the context suggests the person may be subject to crime
- the person is at risk of harm to themselves or another
Concern for Person
A person whose whereabouts are known or believed to be known and there are concerns of risk or harm to the individual
Homicide
Being committed 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
Murder
A common law crime 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
Honour Based Abuse
The terms ‘honour crime’, ‘honour-based abuse’ and ‘honour-based violence’ embrace a variety of incidents or crimes of violence (mainly but not exclusively against women), including physical abuse, sexual violence, abduction, forced marriage, imprisonment and murder where the person is being punished by their family or community. They are punished for actually, or allegedly, ‘undermining’ what the family or community believes to be the correct code of behaviour. In transgressing this, the person shows that they have not been properly controlled to conform by their family and this is to the ‘shame’ of the family. ‘Honour crime’ may be considered by the perpetrator as justified to protect or restore the ‘honour of the family’
Female Genital Mutilation
A person who performs an action in relation to the whole or any part of the labia majora, labia minora, prepuce of the clitoris, clitoris or vagina of another person is guilty of an offence
- Those actions are: excising it; infibulating it; or otherwise mutilating it
Forced Marriage
A Forced Marriage is a marriage in which one or both parties do not (or, in the case of some adults with learning or physical disabilities, cannot) consent to the marriage and duress is involved. Duress includes both physical and emotional pressure. It is very different from arranged marriage, where both parties give their full and free consent to the marriage
Force
Force includes
- Coerce by physcial, verbal or psychological means, threatening conduct, harassment or other means,
- Knowingly take advantage of a person’s incapacity to consent to marriage or to understand the nature of the marriage
Abuse
Any form of physical, verbal, sexual, psychological or financial 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 take place in the home or elsewhere including online.
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 of the family
Child
- Any person who has not attained the age of 16 years
- Any person who has attained 16 years but not 18 years and there is a supervision requirement in force
