1. CRIME IN THE PHILIPPINES
Prepared by: Princess Marie M.
Duenas

2. What is the term crime?
A crime occurs when someone breaks
the law by an overt act, omission or
neglect that can result in punishment. A
person who has violated a law, or has
breached a rule, is said to have committed
a criminal offense.

3. Typical crime includes:
• pick pocketing,
• confidence schemes,
• acquaintance scams, in some
cases,
• credit card fraud.
• Carjacking, kidnappings,
• robberies, and
• violent assaults

4. Pick pocketing
• Pick pocketing
is a form of larceny
that involves the stealing
of money or other
valuables from the person
of a victim without their
noticing the theft at the
time. It requires
considerable dexterity and
a knack for misdirection.

5. confidence schemes
• confidence schemes-
These schemes may
seek to extract money
and in some cases
personal details from the
recipients of such
correspondence. Such
schemes are fraudulent.

6. Acquaintance Scams
• Credit card fraud
• is a wide-ranging term for theft
and fraud committed using a
credit card or any similar
payment mechanism as a
fraudulent source of funds in a
transaction.
• The purpose may be to obtain
goods without paying, or to
obtain unauthorized funds from
an account.

7. Carjacking
• Carjacking
• is the unlawful seizure of
automobile. It's also armed
assault when the vehicle is
occupied. Historically, such as
in the rash of semi-trailer truck
hijackings during the 1960s,
the general term hijacking was
used for that type of vehicle
abduction, which did not often
include kidnapping of the
driver, and concentrated on
the theft of the load, rather
than the vehicle itself

8. kidnappings
• Kidnappings
kidnapping is the
taking away or
transportation of a
person against that
person's will, usually to
hold the person in
false imprisonment, a
confinement without
legal authority.

9. robberies
• Robberies
Robbery is the crime of taking or
attempting to take something of value by
force or threat of force or by putting the
victim in fear. At common law, robbery is
defined as taking the property of
another, with the intent to permanently
deprive the person of that property, by
means of force or fear. Precise definitions
of the offence may vary between
jurisdictions

10. Robberies
• At common law, robbery is defined as
taking the property of another, with
the intent to permanently deprive the
person of that property, by means of
force or fear. Precise definitions of the
offence may vary between
jurisdictions

11. Violent assaults includes:
• Violent crime includes murder,
rape and sexual assault,
robbery, and assault.
Information about murder is
obtained on a yearly basis from
the FBI’s Uniform Crime
Reports.

12. Statistics of Crime incidents
• Crime data gathered by the Philippine
National Police (PNP) showed that
overall crime statistics for 2011 were
similar to those reported in 2010.
From January to November 2011, the
PNP recorded 230,817 crime
incidents.

13. Root causes of committing a
crime.
• Poor parenting skills
• Peer influence
• Drugs and alcohol
• Income and Education
• Tv violence
• Easy access
• Hot weather

14. Discouraging the choice of
crime
• Punishment
is supposed to make a criminal
behavior less attractive and more risky.
-locking bars on auto steering wheels,
the presence of guard dogs, or high
technology improvements such as
security system and photographs on
credit cards , increasing number of
police officers on the street.

15. PRO-6 CITES FACTORS IN
LOWER CRIME RATE IN 2012
• ILO- ILO CITY- 7,211 or 16.20 percent
lower than the previous year’s 8,605 in
Western Visayas
• CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Nov. 21 (PIA)
-- The regional office of the Philippine
National Police (PNP) in Northern
Mindanao- A total of 4,037 crimes were
recorded from July 1 to October 31 of this
year, down by 20 percent from the 5,055
crimes recorded

16. • SAN JOSE, Antique, July 12 (PIA) --
The Antique Police Provincial Office
(APPO)
Antique’s total crime dropped by 14.96
percent from 234 crimes in January to
June 2011 as against 199 crimes during
the same period in 2012

17. • BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya, May 22
(PIA)
• Police Senior Supt. Valfrie Tabian, police
provincial director, said that during the
period, a total of 124 crime incidents were
recorded, which was a decrease by 246
incidents or 52.12 percent, as compared to
the 472 incidents last year

18. BUTUAN CITY, April 27 (PIA) -- The
Philippine National Police (PNP)
Caraga,
The crime statistics showed 896
index crimes and 342 non-index
crimes, which constituted the total of
1,238 cases in the first quarter of
2011. However, it dropped to a total of
1,028 cases in the first quarter of
2012.

19. • QUEZON CITY, February 10 (PIA)
• According to PNP report, index crime
cases was down by 20.01 percent in
January this year with 11,379 cases
compared to the 14,227 listed cases in
same period last 2011.

20. In 2009
• in 2009 (333,416)
• For 2011, physical assault and theft were
the two largest contributors to the total
number of incidents.

21. • Courts > % of managers surveyed lacking confidence in courts to
uphold property rights
• 33.78 %
• [12th of 39]
• Jails
• 7
• [45th of 80]
• Manslaughters
• 2,592
• [4th of 42]
• Murders committed by youths
• 3,252
• [6th of 73]
• Murders committed by youths per capital
• 12.2
• [11th of 57]

22. • Murders with firearms
• 7,708
• [2nd of 36]
• Prisoners
• 70,383 prisoners
• [17th of 168]
• Prisoners > Female
• 4%
• [70th of 134]
• Prisoners > Foreign prisoners
• 0.6%
• [75th of 86]
• Prisoners > Per capita
• 94 per 100,000 people
• [96th of 164]
• Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees
• 38.2%
• [53rd of 143]
• Prisoners > Share of prison capacity
filled
• 156.4%
• [28th of 128]

23. • Sentence Length
• 24
• [17th of 21]
• DEFINITION: Total average sentence length served
• SOURCE: International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison
Brief
• Software piracy rate
• 69%
• [41st of 107]
• Total crimes
• 85,776
• [31st of 50]
• United States extradition treaties > Date signed
• November 13, 1994
• United States extradition treaties > Entered into force
• November 22, 1996
• Unpaid diplomatic parking fines
• 11.5

24. Reason of corruption
• public choice theory – official makes a
rational choice to act corruptly
• bad apple theories – official with “bad”
character necessarily acts corruptly
• organizational culture theories – group
culture and aspects of the workplace
encourage the official to act corruptly.

25. • • clashing moral values – the official’s societal or
personal values and norms permit
corruption
• the ethos of public administration theories –
pressure on the official to perform override
integrity considerations and allow corruption
• correlation theories – no casual theory only
correlations

26. Prevention of corrupton
• economic – emphazises the need for the
economic stimuli for corruption to be
reduced
and suggests that such might be achieved
by, inter alia, paying higher civil service
salaries

27. • educational – aims at altering the attitudes
and values of the populace and civil
servants
alike via training and education campaigns
and engagement of the media

28. • cultural – ensuring that the behaviour and
attitudes of those in power are subject to
stringent codes of conduct and their
behaviour filters down to civil servants

29. • organizational or bureaucratic –
strengthening internal control systems
such as auditing to
detect corrupt activity, and staff rotation to
reduce the propensity for individuals to
establish themselves in entrenched
corruption

30. • political –
increasing in transparency in terms, for
example, of the monitoring of party
finances and more broadly, a clearer and
more definite separation of powers in terms
of
the judiciary and the state

31. • judicial or repressive measures –
advocates harsher penalties for corrupt
practices but also
the creation of independent anti-corruption
agencies.

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