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defender

vr.tr.defender · SOC.PER

a person who cares for persons or property

Thing Registry Society, people and institutions

Research draft, second pass

A second pass drafted this model: the structure a model of this thing needs, and what is known about it in the world. The line under this one says how the second half was obtained - researched against sources, or recalled without web access, in which case nothing here was read anywhere and every claim is a lead to verify. Unreviewed either way.

written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify

Researched by: Claude

Purpose and description

Let an agent explain the defender or guardian as a protective role, identify its kinds and legal forms such as guardianship, distinguish the sporting, legal and military senses, and route to the right entry.

A person who cares for, guards or protects other persons or property, in roles such as guardian, protector, bodyguard, custodian or monitor, in the registry sense of protection rather than sport or law; the word also names positions in team sports, defence counsel in law, human rights defenders and military defenders, which are separate senses, and the registry aliases include admonisher and reminder in the sense of one who watches over conduct.

What it is for: Protecting persons or property.

It can be explain the protective role; identify legal and informal forms; distinguish other senses; route to the right entry.

Distinguishing features

Protective duty

Legal or informal basis

Care and guarding

Many homonymous senses

What it looks like

No defining appearance; a person in a protective role.

How it is recognised

Person who guards or cares for others or property

Guardian, protector, custodian, monitor

Football defenders, defence lawyers and human rights defenders are separate senses

Related models

is a kind of - in registry terms

person

has as a legal form - under guardianship law

legal guardian

is contrasted with - in team sports, a separate sense

defender

is contrasted with - a separate sense

human rights defender

In practice

Families and kinds

legal guardians of children and adults

protectors and bodyguards

custodians of property

monitors and admonishers of conduct

defenders in sport, law, human rights and military contexts as separate senses

Standards and regulation

Guardianship and custody law

Security industry licensing for bodyguards

Safeguarding rules for those caring for vulnerable people

Failure modes and hazards

Confusing senses

Abuse of guardianship

Agents giving personal legal advice

Analytical facets

substance
social
origin
conceptual
agency
inert
mobility
not-applicable
scale
not-applicable
affordances
observable

Also called

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Where this came from

oewn:2024 · CC BY 4.0

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Meaning What a defender is.

Definition.

Definition

Protective sense.

Definition

Definition.

  1. What does defender mean in the protective sense, and what roles does it cover? definition
  2. Which sense of defender is meant: guardian, sport, law, human rights or military? boundary

Kinds

Kinds.

Kinds

Kinds.

  1. What kinds of guardians and protectors exist? definition
  2. Which entry fits the specific role? action
Law Guardianship.

Regulation.

Guardianship

Legal guardianship.

Guardianship

Guardianship.

  1. How does legal guardianship work for children and adults, in general terms? provenance
  2. Is the user asking about a personal guardianship matter, which needs a lawyer? boundary

Safeguarding

Safeguarding.

Safeguarding

Safeguarding.

  1. What safeguards exist against abuse of protective roles? provenance
  2. Which references are standard? provenance
Practice Protective work.

Practice.

Security

Bodyguards and custodians.

Security

Security.

  1. How are bodyguards and property custodians trained and licensed? provenance
  2. Which entry fits bodyguard? action

Monitors

Monitors and admonishers.

Monitors

Monitors.

  1. What roles do monitors and admonishers play in institutions such as schools and religious communities? provenance
  2. Which sources are cited? provenance
Context Other senses.

Context.

Sport

Sport and law.

Sport

Sport.

  1. What is a defender in team sports and defence counsel in law, in outline? provenance
  2. Which entry fits the specific sense? action

Rights

Human rights defenders.

Rights

Rights.

  1. What is a human rights defender, in outline? provenance
  2. Which entry fits human rights defender? action

What the second pass must settle

  • Should legal guardian be the primary linked entry?
  • How should the sporting and legal senses be linked?
  • The registry entry has merged aliases spanning admonisher and reminder; should they be split off?