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Child protectionA shorthand reference to the intervention into the lives of children who are deemed to be at risk of harm. Intervention can come from a number of agencies including social services, police, doctors and nurses. | |
Criminal justiceThe upholding of social control and deterrence of crime. Criminal justice covers three main processes: the creation of law, its adjudication and any correction that is deemed necessary by society. | |
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DevolutionDevolution is the transfer or delegation of power to a lower level, especially by central government to local or regional administration. In the United Kingdom devolution transferred power from the Westminster Parliament to the devolved law-making bodies in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. | |
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SectionedA term used having been committed compulsorily to a psychiatric hospital in accordance with a section of a mental health act. | |
Social constructionA general term that sometimes is applied to theories that identify the socially created nature of social life. Specifically it refers to the notion that society is actively produced by human beings which show the world as made or invented. | |