Key terms & definitions

A person who works to improve prison conditions and the treatment of prisoners.

The part of the criminal justice system that detains offenders in secure institutions.

A person's ability to keep aspects of their life private and have control over access to information about them.

A person’s ability to control access to their personal life and information.

A person's right to control access to their personal space, behaviour and information.

A person’s ability to keep their private life and personal information from unnecessary intrusion or disclosure.

A concern about who can collect, access or use information about a person, and how much control that person has over it.

A privately operated raider authorised by a government to attack specified enemy targets.

Raiding enemy shipping with permission from a government.

Investment by businesses rather than government, including smaller firms and transnational corporations.

A business owned by shareholders, with limited liability, whose shares cannot be offered for sale to the general public.

An incorporated business owned by shareholders, with limited liability, whose shares cannot be offered for sale to the general public.

A business owned by private individuals or organisations rather than by the government, usually operating to make a profit.

A proposal for a law introduced by an individual MP rather than by the government.

Male domination based primarily in the household, involving direct control of women by fathers or husbands.

A small area of land cultivated by an individual farming family for its own benefit, rather than as part of collective production.

A police organisation funded or controlled by private interests to protect particular property, businesses or facilities.

Religious worship undertaken by an individual rather than as part of a congregation, using set prayers or personal words.

A claimed revelation given to particular people. An authentic private revelation helps people live by Christ’s Revelation without adding to or correcting it.

A school outside the state-funded system that normally charges fees.

Individual or household devotion outside a public congregational service, such as personal prayer or Bible reflection.

A lack or corruption of goodness. Augustine understood evil as a privation rather than a substance created by God.

The absence or lack of goodness; Augustine understood evil in this way rather than as a separate thing created by God.

The transfer of publicly owned businesses or industries into private ownership.

The transfer of a business or industry from government ownership to private ownership.

The transfer of government-owned assets into private ownership.

The transfer of a government-owned organisation or service into private ownership.

Social relationships centred on the home, combined with an attitude that work and cooperation with workmates are mainly means of improving personal wages, conditions and living standards.

A nuclear family separated from its extended relatives, whose life centres on its own home.

A special benefit or right enjoyed by one person or group but denied to others.