| A | B |
|---|
| Law | A rule that must be followed |
| Criminal Laws | laws that focus on the behavior known as crime, examples: not having a license or theft. |
| Civil Laws | Laws that focus on legal relationships between people and personal rights. |
| malpractice | bad practice or professional negligence |
| negligence | failure to give care or injury caused by improper care |
| assault | threat or attempt to injure |
| battery | unlawful touching of another person |
| informed consent | permission granted voluntarily by a person. |
| invasion of privacy | revealing private information about a person without consent |
| false imprisonment | restrainign an individual or restricting their freedom |
| abuse | physical harm, pain, or mental anguish |
| defamation | false statements either causing a person to be ridiculed or damaging a persons reputation |
| slander | spoken defamation |
| libel | written defamation |
| Domestic abuse | occurs when an intimate partner uses threating, manipulative, aggressive or violent behavior to maintain power or control over another person |
| sexual abuse | unwanted sexual touching or act, or suggestions of sexual behavior |
| psychological abuse | threatening harm, denying rights, belittling, intimidating, ridiculing a person or threatening to reveal information about a person |
| verbal abuse | speaking harshly, swearing, shouting, etc. |
| physical abuse | hitting, restraining movement, depriving a person of water or food, etc. |
| tort | wrongful act that does not involve a contract. includes malpractice, negligence, assault and battery and abuse. |
