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In view of the prevailing conditions besetting the criminal justice system, it is no wonder that President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo herself has initiated concrete action on the issue of corruption and has included in her principal schema of government socio-economic concerns on social justice.
Thus, in April 2011, the Government of the Philippines initiated a process to review and revise the country’s criminal laws. To this end, the Department of Justice constituted the Criminal Code Committee, 8 which is mandated to develop a new Criminal Code of the Philippines that is “updated, modern, simplified, responsive, and truly ...
An unlawful and deliberate killing carried out by order of a state actor, or with the state’s complicity or acquiescence, is an extrajudicial execution – a crime under international law.21 As of September 2016, over 3,000 killings have been carried out by police or unknown hitmen across the country.22.
6 kwi 2016 · It is well established across a range of jurisdictions that those engaging in blue-collar crime can expect to receive harsher penalties in the justice system than those engaging in white-collar crime, where equivalent levels of harm are present.
23 cze 2020 · The paper is an exploratory analysis of the Philippine Criminal Justice System in relation to Access to Justice. Providing people with the right to an effective remedy in each step across the...
1 sie 2018 · In this article we explore the relationship between money and violence in the Philippine war on drugs. Building on long-term ethnographic and political engagement with a poor urban neighbourhood in...
7 cze 2016 · This article reviews the findings of three research projects—all performed by the author and companions—supporting the hypothesis that integrity violations comprise white-collar crime or human rights violations or can be an indicator of more serious crime in an organization.
