Final Quiz Flashcards
This Act shall be known as the “Anti-Violence Against Women and Their Children Act of 2004.”
R.A. No. 9262
This refers to any act or a series of acts committed by any person against a woman who is his wife, former wife, or against a woman with whom the person has or had a sexual or dating relationship, or with whom he has a common child, or against her child whether legitimate or illegitimate, within or without the family abode, which result in or is likely to result in physical, sexual, psychological harm or suffering, or economic abuse including threats of such acts, battery, assault, coercion, harassment or arbitrary deprivation of liberty.
Violence against Women and their Children (VAWC)
It refers to acts that include bodily or physical harm.
Physical violence
It refers to an act which is sexual in nature, committed against a woman or her child.
Sexual violence
It refers to acts or omissions causing or likely to cause mental or emotional suffering of the victim such as but not limited to intimidation, harassment, stalking, damage to property, public ridicule or humiliation, repeated verbal abuse and mental infidelity.
Psychological violence
It refers to acts that make or attempt to make a woman financially dependent.
Economic abuse
It refers to an act of inflicting physical harm upon the woman or her child resulting to the physical and psychological or emotional distress.
Battery
It refers to a scientifically defined pattern of psychological and behavioral symptoms found in women living in battering relationships as a result of cumulative abuse.
Battered Woman Syndrome
It refers to an intentional act committed by a person who, knowingly and without lawful justification, follows the woman or her child or places the woman or her child under surveillance directly or indirectly or a combination thereof.
Stalking
It refers to a situation wherein the parties live as husband and wife without the benefit of marriage or are romantically involved over time and on a continuing basis during the course of the relationship.
Dating Relationship
It refers to a single sexual act which may or may not result in the bearing of a common child.
Sexual Relations
It refers to those below eighteen (18) years of age or older but are incapable of taking care of themselves as defined under Republic Act No. 7610. As used in this Act, it includes the biological children of the victim and other children under her care.
Children
The _________________________ shall have original and exclusive jurisdiction over cases of violence against women and their children under this law. In the absence of such court in the place where the offense was committed, the case shall be filed in the __________________ where the crime or any of its elements was committed at the option of the compliant.
Regional Trial Court designated as a Family Court; Regional Trial Court
Acts falling under (a) to (f) mentioned above shall prescribe in _____________. Acts falling under (g) to (I) shall prescribe in __________.
twenty (20) years; ten (10) years
Victim-survivors who are found by the courts to be suffering from ____________________ do not incur any criminal and civil liability.
battered woman syndrome
It is known as the “Juvenile Justice Welfare Act of 2006.”
RA 9344
It is known as the “Juvenile Justice Welfare Act of 2006.” It was approved on ___________________.
April 28, 2006
This law institutionalized the promotion of the well-being of child and their families, involvement of parents and guardians, promotion of diversion, avoiding deprivation of liberty and protecting the privacy rights of children.
RA 9344
It is “An Act Strengthening the Juvenile Justice System in the Philippines, amending for the purpose Republic Act No. 9344.”
RA 10630
It 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 surety, property bond, cash deposit, or recognizance.
Bail
It 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.
Best Interest of the Child
It refers to a person under the age of eighteen (18) years.
Child
It refers to a child who is vulnerable to and at the risk of committing criminal offenses because of personal, family and social circumstances.
Child at Risk
It refers to a child who is alleged as, accused of, or adjudged as, having committed an offense under Philippine laws.
Child in Conflict with the Law
Under PD 603, ____________ is the proper term when the child commits crime.
Youthful Offender
It 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.
Community-based Programs
It refers to a family court or, in places where there are no family courts, any regional trial court.
Court
It 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.
Deprivation of Liberty
It 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 his/her social, cultural, economic, psychological or educational background without resorting to formal court proceedings.
Diversion
It 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.
Diversion Program
It refers to the apprehension or taking into custody of a child in conflict with the law by law enforcement officers or private citizens.
Initial Contact With-the Child
It 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.
Intervention
It 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.
Juvenile Justice and Welfare System
It refers to the person in authority or his/her agent as defined in Article 152 of the Revised Penal Code, including a barangay tanod.
Law Enforcement Officer
It refers to any act or omission whether punishable under special laws or the Revised Penal Code, as amended.
Offense
It 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 conflict with the law, when required.
Recognizance
It refers to a principle which requires a process of resolving conflicts with the maximum involvement of the victim, the offender and the community.
Restorative Justice
It 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.
Status Offenses
It refers to a 24-hour child-caring institution established, funded and managed by accredited local government units (LGUs) and licensed and/or accredited nongovernment organizations (NGOs) providing short-term residential care for children in conflict with the law who are above fifteen (15) but below eighteen (18) years of age who are awaiting court disposition of their cases or transfer to other agencies or jurisdiction.
Bahay Pag-asa
It refers to a 24-hour residential care facility managed by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), LGUs, licensed and/or accredited NGOs monitored by the DSWD, which provides care, treatment and rehabilitation services for children in conflict with the law.
Youth Rehabilitation Center
It refers to offenses where there is no private offended party.
Victimless Crimes
Under RA 9344, A _________________________ is hereby created and attached to the Department of Justice and placed under its administrative supervision.
Juvenile Justice and Welfare Council (JJWC)
RA 10630 amended this provision wherein it attached the Juvenile Justice and Welfare Council (JJWC) to the ______________________.
DSWD
Who are exempted in criminal responsibility?
- A child who is fifteen (15) years of age or under at the time of the commission of the offense
- A child above fifteen (15) years of age but below eighteen (18) years of age if he or she acted without discernment
Under RA 10630, every ‘Bahay Pag-asa’ will have a facility called the ______________________________. This Center will be allocated for children in conflict with the law (CICL) specifically those child who is above twelve (12) years of age up to fifteen (15) years of age found to have committed serious crimes, and who commits an offense for the second time or oftener.
Intensive Juvenile Intervention and Support Center (IJISC)
Under this provision, it includes parricide, murder, infanticide, kidnapping and serious illegal detention where the victim is killed or raped, robbery, with homicide or rape, destructive arson, rape, or carnapping where the driver or occupant is killed or raped or offenses under Republic Act No. 9165 (Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002) punishable by more than twelve (12) years of imprisonment.
Serious Crimes
A child in conflict with the law shall only be searched by a law enforcement officer of the ___________ and shall not be locked up in a detention cell.
same gender
If during the conferencing, mediation or conciliation, the child voluntarily admits the commission of the act, a ___________________ shall be developed when appropriate and desirable.
diversion program
The diversion proceedings shall be completed within ____ days.
45
There shall be a specially trained _____________ to conduct inquest, preliminary investigation and prosecution of cases involving a child in conflict with the law.
prosecutor
Upon determination of probable cause by the prosecutor, the information against the child shall be filed before the _______________ within ________________ from the start of the preliminary investigation.
Family Court; forty-five (45) days
The information must allege that the child acted with ___________.
discernment
