The Correction and the Community Pillar
THE CORRECTION PILLAR
Watch the introductory video for this module. This will be followed by a series of literature presentations with audio for your convenience.
Read the above literature or click the audio button below to listen:
How do we define the term correction and what are the different purposes of correction? Read the above presentation or click the audio button to listen:
Read or listen to the second purpose of correction. Just click the audio button to listen.
Click the audio button to listen or read the above literature for the third purpose of correction.
The fourth purpose of correction. read the above literature or click the audio button to listen.
The last purpose is reintegration. Read or listen to the know what it means by clicking the button of the audio below.
Let’s then now look at the different agencies under the correction pillar. You may read the slide above or click the button below to listen:
Let’s now move on to the “phases of correction”. Read or listen by clicking the audio button below.
Read or listen to our slides here; the audio here covers the slide above and below:
For adult offenders, read the slide above or click the button of audio below to listen.
What is a diversion program? Read or listen to it!
Note, this is not phases but types of correction. So let us see what is it by reading or listening to its audio below and continue with the next slide.
Then finally, the community-based correction!
THIS IS THE END OF THE FOURTH PILLAR OF THE PHILIPPINE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM.
Next is the “COMMUNITY PILLAR”.
THE COMMUNITY PILLAR
COMMUNITY is the fifth pillar of the criminal justice system. In the actual perception, the government refers to the MOBILIZED COMMUNITY, which is energized to help the authorities in effectively addressing the law and order concerns of the citizenry. This is due to the fact that CRIME PREVENTION IS EVERYBODY’S CONCERN.
The Two-fold Role of the Community Pillar
(1) It has the responsibility to participate in law enforcement activities by being partners of the peace officers in reporting the crime incident, and helping in the arrest of the offender.
(2) It has the responsibility to participate in the promotion of peace and order through CRIME PREVENTION or deterrence and in the rehabilitation of convicts and their reintegration into society. REHABILITATION takes place when the convict is serving his sentence. On the other hand, a convict may be paroled or may even be placed on suspension of sentence.
Aside from the two-fold role, the following are the responsibility of the community as a pillar of the criminal justice system:
[1] By identifying offenders
[2] By providing the law enforcement agency with data on illegal activities and cohorts of the criminal
[3] By preventing the proliferation of organized crime and syndicate
[4] Volunteering as witness
[5] Adapting precautionary and remedial measures to diminish crime
Participation of the COMMUNITY in Criminal Justice System
Under the Philippine concept of a participative criminal justice system in the Philippines, public and private agencies as well as individual citizens, become part of the CJS when they participate and actively involve with issues and activities related to CRIME PREVENTION.
Thus, citizen-based crime prevention groups become part of the CJS within the framework of their involvement in crime prevention activities and in the reintegration of the convict who shall be released from the correction pillar into the mainstream of society.
THE CITIZEN’S ARREST
An arrest may be effected WITH or WITHOUT WARRANT. Warrantless arrests may be effected by peace officers as well as a private individual (also known as civilian or citizen’s arrest) in any of the following circumstances.
[a] When in his presence, the person to be arrested has committed, is actually committing, or is attempting to commit an offense;
[b] When an offense has in fact just been committed, and he has personal knowledge of facts indicating that the person to be arrested has committed it; &
[c] When the person to be arrested is a prisoner who has escaped from a penal institution or is temporarily confined during the pendency of the case, or has escaped while being transferred from one confinement facility to another.
AGENCIES AND PEOPLE THAT COMPRISES THE COMMUNITY PILLAR
(1) Department of Social Work and Development (DSWD)
(2) National Economic Development Authority (NEDA)
(3) Bureau of Local Government Supervision (BLGS-DILG)
(4) Philippine Public Safety College (PPSC)
(5) Philippine Information Agency (PIA)
(6) Dangerous Drug Board (DDB)
(7) Non-Government Organizations (NGO’s)
(8) People’s Organizations (PO’s)
(9) Other government agencies, institutions, and programs whose principal functions are geared toward the promotion of socio-economic welfare.
(10) An individual citizen exerting efforts to help to prevent or solve crimes.
WE HAD ENDED THE MODULE ON PHILIPPINE CRIMINAL JUSTICE!
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