CHAPTER 1 Flashcards
offenses whose inception, prevention and/or direct or indirect effects involved more than one country.
- Transnational Crime
a continuing illegal activity of group of persons which is primarily concerned with the generation of profits, irrespective of national boundaries as a result of globalization.
- Transnational Crime
- Refers to the rapid development of the western culture that ultimately affects other cultures in the world as brought by intellectual and technological advances, in which some crimes occurring in other countries are attributed.
Globalization
- is a crime perpetuated by organized criminal group which the aim of committing one or more serious crimes or offenses in order to obtain directly or indirectly, a financial or other material benefits committed through crossing of borders or jurisdictions.
Transnational Organized crime
- Shall mean a structured group of three or more persons, existing for a period of time and acting in concert with the aim of committing or more serious crimes or offenses
Organized Criminal Group
groyp of three or more persons, established in accordance with this convention, in order to obtain directly or indirectly, a financial or material benefit.
Organized Criminal Group
all acts inimical to the welfare of states/countries especially if perpetrated by no less than foreigners
Transnational crimes
It is also committed with several motives: political influence, economic gain and social control in a global scope.
Transnational crimes
- Defined as the recruitment, transport, transfer, harboring or receipt of a person by such means as threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, abduction, fraud or deception for the purpose of exploitation.
Human Trafficking
- It’s been called the “modern day slavery”.
Human Trafficking
is an illegal act and is considered a violation of human rights and inimical to human dignity and national development.
Human Trafficking
- “An act to institute policies to eliminate trafficking in persons especially women and children, establishing the necessary institutional mechanisms for the protection and support of trafficked persons, providing penalties for its violations and for other purposes.”
RA 9208 - Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003
This Act shall be known as the “Expanded Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2012″.
RA 10364
- Refers to a person below eighteen (18) years of age or one who is over eighteen (18) but is unable to fully take care of or protect himself/herself from abuse, neglect, cruelty, exploitation, or discrimination because of a physical or mental disability or condition.
Child
- Refers to any act, transaction, scheme or design involving the use of a person by another, for sexual intercourse or lascivious conduct in exchange for money, profit or any other consideration.
Prostitution
- Refers to the extraction of work or services from any person by means of enticement lure bait or pain, violence, intimidation or threat, use of, force or coercion, including deprivation of freedom, abuse of authority or moral ascendancy, debt-bondage or deception including any work or service extracted from any person under the menace of penalty.
Forced Labor
- Refers to the status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised.
Slavery
a code of silence about criminal activity and a refusal to give evidence to authorities.
omerta
- Refers to a condition of enforced and compulsory service induced by means of any scheme, plan or pattern, intended to cause a person to believe that if he or she did not enter into or continue in such condition, he or she or another person would suffer serious harm
Involuntary Servitude
- Refers to a program organized by travel and tourism-related establishments and individuals which consists of tourism packages or activities, utilizing and offering escort and sexual services as enticement for tourists.
Sex Tourism
RA 11862
The Expanded Anti Trafficking in Person Act of 2022
- Refers to participation by a person in prostitution, pornography or the production of pornography, in exchange for money, profit or any other consideration or where the participation is caused or facilitated by any means of intimidation or threat, use of force, or other forms of coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, debt bondage, abuse of power or of position or of legal process
Sexual Exploitation
- Refers to the pledging by the debtor of his/her personal services or labor or those of a person under his/her control as security or payment for a debt
Debt Bondage
- Refers to any representation, through publication, exhibition, cinematography, indecent shows, information technology, of a person engaged in real or simulated explicit sexual activities or any representation of the sexual parts of a person for primarily sexual purposes.
Pornography