If you would like to help kids avoid jail and escape their destructive, antisocial behaviours, you might like to become a street worker, social worker, or even a corrections officer. Similarly, if you want to help convicts integrate into society, you’ll be interested in the same list of jobs. You can learn many of the skills needed for these jobs at Ahuntsic College in Montreal in the Youth and Adult Correctional Intervention program.
Glossary
- accomplice
- An associate in wrongdoing, especially one who aids or abets another in a criminal act, either as a principal or an accessory.
- addiction
- The state of being enslaved to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming, such as narcotics.
- agent
- A person or thing that acts or has the power to act.
- anger
- A strong feeling of displeasure and belligerence aroused by a wrong.
- apparent crime
- The number of offenses reported.
- authenticity
- The quality or condition of being authentic, trustworthy, or genuine.
- authority
- A person or organization having power or control in a particular, typically political or administrative, sphere.
- blended family
- A family that includes children from a previous marriage of the wife, husband, or both parents.
- bullying
- The use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively impose domination over others.
- burglary
- Illegal entry into a building for the purposes of committing an offence, such as theft.
- cell
- A small room in which a prisoner is locked up.
- citizenship
- The status of a citizen with rights and duties.
- communication
- Imparting or interchange of thoughts, opinions, or information by speech, writing, or signs.
- community center
- Public locations where members of a community tend to gather for group activities, social support, public information, and other purposes.
- community organization
- Non-profits that operate within a single local community, running on a voluntary basis and self-funded.
- cell
- A small room in which a prisoner is locked up
- consequence
- Something that logically or naturally follows from an action or condition.
- control tower
- An elevated structure for the visual observation and control of the surrounding area.
- correction
- Punishment intended to reform, improve, or rehabilitate.
- correctional officer
- An officer responsible for the custody, safety, security, and supervision of inmates in a prison or any other correctional facility.
- correctional plan
- An analysis of a prisoner’s social and psychological shortcomings – the things driving his anti-social behaviour – and a list of the ‘intervention’ programs that the prisoner must participate in, in order to be eligible for release.
- counseling
- The provision of assistance and guidance in resolving personal, social, or psychological problems and difficulties, especially by a professional.
- courtesy
- Showing of politeness in one’s attitude and behavior toward others.
- criminal code
- A law that codifies most criminal offences and procedures in Canada.
- criminal offence
- An act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act; “a long record of crimes”
- criminality
- A criminal act or practice.
- criminogenic factors
- Factors, innate or acquired, which can encourage criminality.
- crisis
- A dramatic emotional or circumstantial upheaval in a person’s life.
- debt
- An amount of money borrowed by one party from another
- delinquency
- Failure to do what law or duty requires.
- detention
- The act of detaining or state of being detained.
- detox treatments
- Treatment designed to rid the body of poisonous substances, especially alcohol and drugs.
- disappointment
- The condition or feeling of being disappointed
- drug
- Any substance taken for its narcotic or stimulant effects.
- drug trafficking
- The sale and distribution of illegal drugs.
- educator
- A person or thing that educates, especially a teacher, principal, or other person involved in planning or directing education.
- empathy
- Identification with and understanding of another’s situation, feelings, and motives.
- employability
- The qualification of a person to be ready to work.
- equality
- The state of being equal. In status, rights, and opportunities.
- escape
- To slip or get away, as from confinement or restraint; gain or regain liberty: to escape from jail
- fingerprint
- Such an impression made with ink for purposes of identification
- formal interview
- Have a scheduled interview with a client in order to get specific information.
- frame
- To make a person appear as the perpetrator of a crime that he/she did not commit.
- habit
- An acquired behavior pattern regularly followed until it has become almost involuntary.
- halfway house
- A place to allow convicted criminals to begin the process of reintegration with society.
- handcuff
- a ring-shaped metal device that can be locked around a person’s wrist, usually one of a pair connected by a short chain or linked bar; shackle
- harm reduction
- Programmes and practices that aim to reduce the harms associated with the use of drugs
- homeless
- The condition of people without a regular residence.
- impartial
- Not biased; fair.
- imprisonment
- The state of being imprisoned; captivity
- informal interview
- A spontaneous interview with a client to get specific information.
- intervention
- Take part in an action to settle a problem of a person or situation, with words or gestures.
- intervention plan
- A plan made by an intervenor and his client, who will work on his issues.
- isolation
- The complete separation from others.
- jail
- A place for the confinement of people accused or convicted of a crime.
- judgment
- The ability to make considered decisions or come to sensible conclusions.
- juvenile delinquency
- The habitual committing of criminal acts or offenses by a young person, especially one below the age at which ordinary criminal prosecution is possible.
- law
- The system of rules that a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties.
- law court
- A court that hears cases and makes decisions based on statutes or the common law.
- lawyer
- A person whose profession is to represent clients in a court of law
- legal proceedings
- The institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked.
- liberty
- The condition of being free from restriction or control.
- low income
- Of or relating to individuals or households supported by an income that is below average.
- manipulation
- The act of exerting shrewd or devious influence for one’s own advantage.
- marginal
- Participating only slightly in the life of two cultural groups without feeling identified with either group.
- marginality
- The property of being marginal or on the fringes
- mental health
- The psychological state of someone who is functioning at a satisfactory level of emotional and behavioral adjustment
- misunderstood
- Incorrectly understood or interpreted
- murder
- The unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another
- observation
- An act of observing something or someone carefully or in order to gain information.
- obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Characterized by unreasonable thoughts and fears (obsessions) that lead you to do repetitive behaviors (compulsions)
- offender
- Someone who violates or transgresses a law.
- offense
- Violation of a law that is punishable by a sentence.
- order
- Give an authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
- penalty
- A punishment imposed or incurred for a violation of law or rule.
- penitentiary
- A prison for those convicted of major crimes.
- prison
- A building for the confinement of persons held while awaiting trial or after conviction.
- prisoner
- A person legally held in prison as a punishment for crimes they have committed or while awaiting trial.
- probation
- The release of an offender from detention, subject to a period of good behavior under supervision.
- probation officer
- An officer who investigates and reports on the conduct of offenders who are free on probation.
- psychiatric
- Of or relating to mental disorders or psychiatry.
- pursuit
- The act of chasing someone.
- real crime
- The combined number of reported offences and unreported offences.
- recommendation
- A suggestion or proposal as to the best course of action.
- rehabilitation
- The restoration of someone to a condition of health or useful and constructive activity.
- rehabilitate
- To restore to good health or useful life through therapy and education after imprisonment, addiction, or illness.
- rehabilitation center
- A facility providing therapy and training for rehabilitation.
- reintegration into society
- The support given to offenders during their re-entry into society following imprisonment.
- report
- An account or statement describing in detail an event, situation, or the like, usually as the result of observation or inquiry.
- reward
- Something given or received in recompense for worthy behavior or in retribution for evil acts.
- right
- A legal entitlement to have something or to act in a certain way.
- rule
- One of a set of explicit or understood regulations or principles governing conduct within a particular activity or sphere.
- security
- Limitation or absence of danger to physical, psychological and material security in a particular area.
- security officer
- A security officer is a person who is paid to protect property, assets, or people.
- sentence
- A judicial judgment and determination of the punishment to be inflicted on a convicted criminal.
- sexual abuse
- Forcing undesired sexual behavior by one person upon another.
- social rehabilitation
- The re-integration of a convicted person into society to help them stop reoffending.
- social work
- Organized work directed toward the betterment of social conditions in the community.
- stab
- To pierce or wound with or as if with a pointed weapon
- sue
- To get a court of law to force a person, company, or organization that has treated you unfairly or hurt you in some way to give you something or to do something.
- technical handling behavior
- Techniques used to stop or change a negative behavior of a client in a positive behavior.
- therapy
- The treatment of disease or disorders.
- victim
- Person who has experienced a personal injury.
- victimization
- Be regarded as being particularly sensitive to becoming a victim of an act or a given phenomenon.
- violence
- Rough or injurious physical force, action, or treatment.
- workshop
- A seminar, discussion group.
- young
- Being in the first or early stage of life or growth; youthful; not old.
- youth centre
- A place or organization providing leisure activities for young people.
