Protection and Wellbeing in Our Communities Definitions

Question 1

Mental Disorder

Answer 1

Any mental illness; personality disorder; or learning disability, however caused or manifested

Question 2

Public Place

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Place of Safety

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Disablity

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Discrimination

Answer 5

Treating someone differently, especially because of feeling or prejudices about their sex, race, religion, disability etc

Question 6

Ethnocentrism

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Gender Reassignment

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Passive Descrimination

Answer 8

Where a person witnesses discrimination taking place and disagrees with the discrimination but does not challenge it

Question 9

Pro-Behaviour

Answer 9

Where a member of a minority group accepts discrimination without challenge or ‘turns a blind eye’ to it or laughs at a discriminatory joke

Question 10

Racial Group

Answer 10

Is defined by reference to race, colour, nationality, ethnic origins or national origins

Question 11

Sexual Harassment

Answer 11

Unwanted conduct of a sexual nature, or other conduct based on sex, affecting the dignity of women and men at work

Question 12

Victimisation

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Hate Crime

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Missing Person

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Concern for Person

Answer 15

A person whose whereabouts are known or believed to be known and there are concerns of risk or harm to the individual

Question 16

Homicide

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Murder

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Honour Based Abuse

Answer 18

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’

Question 19

Female Genital Mutilation

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Forced Marriage

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Force

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Abuse

Answer 22

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.

Question 23

Occupancy Rights

Answer 23

• 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

Question 24

Child

Answer 24

• 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

Question 25

Penetration

Answer 25

A continuing act from entry of the penis until its withdrwal

Question 26

Penis

Answer 26

Includes a surgically constructed penis having been created in the course of surgical treatment

Question 27

Vagina

Answer 27

Includes the vulva, and a surgically constructed vagina (together with any surgically constructed vuvla) having been created in the course of such treatment

Question 28

Young Child

Answer 28

A person who has not attained the age of 13 years )0-12 years)

Question 29

Older Child

Answer 29

A person who has attained the age of 13 yeas but not attained the age of 16 years (13, 14 or 15)

Question 30

Public Indecency

Answer 30

That indecent conduct could be criminal in two sets of circumstance, namely:

• Where it constituted lewd, indecent and libidinous practices and behaviour to an individual; and
• Where it caused public offence

Question 31

Lewd

Answer 31

Conduct or practices which are crude or offensive in a sexual way

Question 32

Indecent

Answer 32

Conduct or practices which fall below generally accepted standards

Question 33

Libidinous

Answer 33

Conduct or practices which express sexual desires or lust

Question 34

Vulnerability

Answer 34

A person is vulnerable if, as a result of their situation or circumstance, they are unable to protect themselves

Question 35

Adversity

Answer 35

A difficult or unfortunate event or circumstance

Question 36

Probe

Answer 36

Any verbal or nonverbal message designed to motivate the interviewee to amplify or clarify the material under review

Question 37

Trauma

Answer 37

• An event posing a serious threat to one’s life or physical integrity
• An event which presents the possibility of serious threat or harm to one’s loved ones
• Sudden destruction of one’s environment
• Seeing another person injured or killed as the result of an accident or physical violence

Question 38

Adult at Risk

Answer 38

• Are unable to safeguard their own wellbeing, their property, rights or other interests;
• Are at risk of harm; and
• Because they are affected by disability, Mental Disorder, illness or physical or mental infirmity, are more vulnerable to being harmed than others who are not so affected

Question 39

Mentally Disordered

Answer 39

Any mental illness; personality disorder; or learning disability, however caused or manifested

Question 40

Protected Adult

Answer 40

An individual aged 16 years or over who is provided with (and thus receives) a type of Care Suppport or Welfare Service. These can be described as:

• Registered Care Services
• Support Services
• Adult Placement Services
• A Care Home Service
• Health Services
• Community Care Services
• Welfare Services