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Community Justice Glossary - Judicial terms Category: Legal > Judicial acronyms Date & country: 25/04/2012, UK Words: 394

AA
Alcoholics Anonymous

AAS
Alcohol Advisory Service

ABC
Acceptable Behaviour Contract

ABPO
Association of Black Probation Officers

ACAS
Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service

ACC
Association of County Councils

ACCT
Assessment, Care in Custody and Teamwork

ACEVO
Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations

ACMD
Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs

ACPCs
Area Child Protection Committees

ACPO
Association of Chief Police Officers

ACR
Automatic Conditional Release

ACU
Active Communities Unit

AD
Absolute Discharge

ADECS
Association of Directors of Education and Children's Services

ADSS
Association of Directors of Social Services

AIA
Asylum and Immigration Act 1996

AMA
Association of Metropolitan Authorities

ANPR
Automatic Number Plate Recognition

AOABH
Assault Occasioning Actual Bodily Harm

APA
Association of Police Authorities

APACS
Assessment of Policing and Community Safety

APHBR
Approved Probation Hostel and Home and Bail Hostel Rules 1976

APT&C
Administrative, Professional, Technical and Clerical Staff

ARV
Armed Response Vehicle

ASBA
Anti Social Behaviour Act 2003

ASBO
Anti Social Behaviour Order

ASPBH
Association of Staff of Probation and Bail Hostels

ASPIRE
Assessment-Sentence Plan-Intervention-Review-Evaluate

ASRO
Addressing Substance Related Offending Programme

ASW
Approved Social Worker

ATB
Attitudes, Thinking & Behaviour

AUR
Automatic Unconditional Release

BA
Bail Act 1976

BAPA
Black and Asian Police Association

BASW
British Association of Social Workers

BAWP
British Association for Women in Policing

BCS
British Crime Survey

BCU
Basic Command Unit

BIA
Borders and Immigration Agency (was IND)

BIO
Bail Information Officer

BIS
Bail Information Scheme

BME
Black and Minority Ethnic

BTP
British Transport Police

BVPI
Best Value Performance Indicator

BVR
Best Value Review

CAB
Citizens' Advice Bureau

CACD
Court of Appeal Criminal Division

CAFCASS
Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service

CAFS
Child Adolescent and Family Service

CAMHS
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service

CARATS
Counselling Assessment Referral Advice Throughcare Service

CAT
International Convention Against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

CBT
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

CCJS
Centre for Criminal Justice Studies

CCTV
Closed Circuit Television

CDA
Crime and Disorder Act 1988

CDRP
Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership

CEDAW
International Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women

CEP
Conf

CERD
International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination

CFMHT
Community Forensic Mental Health Team

CHC
Community Health Council

CICA
Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority

CIO
Chief Information Officer

CIU
Community Integration Unit (Home Office)

CJ&CSA
Criminal Justice and Court Services Act

CJA
Criminal Justice Act

CJIP
Criminal Justice Interventions Programme (now DIP)

CJIT
Criminal Justice Information Technology

CJPO
Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994

CJS
Criminal Justice System

CMHT
Community Mental Health Team

CNPA
Civil Nuclear Police Authority

CP(I)A
Criminal Procedure (Insanity) Act

CP(IUP)A
Criminal Procedure (Insanity and Unfitness to Plead) Act

CPC
Central Probation Council

CPIA
Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996

CPN
Community Psychiatric Nurse

CPO
Chief Probation Officer (now CO)

CPO
Crime Prevention Officer

CPS
Crown Prosecution Service

CQSW
Certificate of Qualification on Social Work

CRAMS
Case Record Administration and Management System

CRB
Criminal Records Bureau

CRC
International Convention on the Rights of the Child

CRE
Commission for Racial Equality

CSA
Child Support Agency

CSAP
Correctional Services Accreditation Panel

CSI
Crime Scene Investigator

CSP
Community Safety Partnership

CSR
Correctional Services Review

CSV
Community Service Volunteers

CTSA
Counter Terrorism Security Advisor

CTU
Counter Terrorism Unit

CVS
Council for Voluntary Service

CYPA
Children and Young Person Act

DAAT
Drug and Alcohol Action Team

DAT
Drug Action Team

DCA
Department for Constitutional Affairs