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Probable Sources of Board Exam Questions in Juvenile Delinquency
1. Victimless Crimes - refers to offenses where there is no private offended party. 2. Youth Rehabilitation Center - refers to a 24-hour residential care facility managed by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), LGUs, licensed and/or accredited NGO's monitored by the DSWD, which provides care, treatment and rehabilitation services for children in conflict with the law. 3. Youth Detention Home - refers to a 24-hour child-caring institution managed by accredited local government units (LGU's) and licensed and/or accredited non-government organizations (NGO's) providing short-term residential care for children in conflict with the law who are awaiting court disposition of their cases or transfer to other agencies or jurisdiction. 4. Status Offenses - refers to offenses which discriminate only against a child, while an adult does not suffer any penalty for committing similar acts. These shall include curfew violations, truancy, parental disobedience and the like. 5. Restorative Justice - refers to a principle which requires a process of resolving conflicts with the maximum involvement of the victim, the offender and the community. 6. Recognizance - refers to an undertaking in lieu of a bond assumed by a parent or custodian who shall be responsible for the appearance in court of the child in accordance with the law, when required. 7. Offense - refers to any act or omission whether punishable under special laws or the Revised Penal Code, as amended. 8. Law Enforcement Officer - refers to the person in authority or his/her agent as defined in Article 152 of the Revised Penal Code, including a barangay tanod. 9. Juvenile Justice and Welfare System - refers to a system dealing with children at risk and children in conflict with the law, which provides child-appropriate proceedings, including programs and services for prevention, diversion, rehabilitation, re-integration and aftercare to ensure their normal growth and development. 10. Intervention - refers to a series of activities which are designed to address issues that caused the child to commit an offense. It may take the form of an individualized treatment program which may include counseling, skills training, education, and other activities that will enhance his/her psychological, emotional and psycho-social well-being. 11. Initial Contact With the Child - refers to the apprehension or taking into custody of a child in conflict with the law by law enforcement officers or private citizens. 12. Diversion Program - refers to the program that the child in conflict with the law is required to undergo after he/she is found responsible for an offense without resorting to formal court proceedings. 13. Diversion - refers to an alternative, child-appropriate process of determining the responsibility and treatment of a child in conflict with the law on the basis of higher social, cultural, economic, psychological or educational background without resorting to formal court proceedings. 14. Deprivation of Liberty - refers to any form of detention or imprisonment, or to the placement of a child in conflict with the law in a public or private custodial setting, from which the child in conflict with the law is not permitted to leave at will by order of any judicial or administrative authority. 15. Court - refers to a family court or, in places where there are no family courts, any regional trial court. 16. Community-based Programs - refers to the programs provided in a community setting developed for purposes of intervention and diversion, as well as rehabilitation of the child in conflict with the law, for reintegration into his/her family and/or community. 17. Child in Conflict with the Law - refers to a child who is alleged as, accused of, or adjudged as, having committed an offense under Philippine laws. 18. Child at Risk - refers to a child who is vulnerable to and at the risk of committing criminal offenses because of personal, family and social circumstances. 19. Child - refers to a person under the age of eighteen (18) years. 20. Best Interest of the Child - refers to the totality of the circumstances and conditions which are most congenial to the survival, protection and feelings of security of the child and most encouraging to the child's physical, psychological and emotional development. It also means the least detrimental available alternative for safeguarding the growth and development of the child. 21. Bail - refers to the security given for the release of the person in custody of the law, furnished by him/her or a bondsman, to guarantee his/her appearance before any court. Bail may be given in the form of corporate security, property bond, cash deposit, or recognizance. 22. R.A. No. 9344 - The Act creating the Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act of 2006. 23. Article 40 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child - the State recognizes the right of every child alleged as, accused of, adjudged, or recognized as, having infringed the penal law to be treated in a manner consistent with the promotion of the child's sense of dignity and worth, taking into account the child's age and desirability of promoting his/her reintegration. 24. R.A. No. 9344 should be construed liberally in favor of the child in conflict with the law. Juvenile Delinquency Reviewer 4: Next Page |
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