Laws Flashcards
This is “AN ACT DEFINING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN, PROVIDING FOR PROTECTIVE MEASURES FOR VICTIMS, PRESCRIBING PENALTIES THEREFORE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES”
Republic Act 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
This refers to acts that include bodily or physical harm
Physical Violence
This refers to an act which is sexual in nature, committed against a woman or her child.
Sexual Violence
This 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
This refers to acts that make or attempt to make a woman financially dependent.
Economic Abuse
This refers to an act of inflicting physical harm upon the woman or her child resulting to the physical and psychological or emotional distress.
Battery
This 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
This 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
This 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
This refers to a single sexual act which may or may not result in the bearing of a common child.
Sexual Relations
This refers to any home or institution maintained or managed by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) or by any other agency or voluntary organization accredited by the DSWD for the purposes of this Act or any other suitable place the resident of which is willing temporarily to receive the victim.
Safe Place or Shelter
This 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
This is an order issued for the purpose of preventing further acts of violence against a woman or her child specified in Section 5 of Republic Act No. 9262 and granting other necessary relief.
Protection Order
Who issues Barangay Protection Order?
Punong Barangay
In case the Punong Barangay is unavailable to act on the application for a BPO, the application shall be acted upon by any available ___________.
Barangay Kagawad (but it should be accompanied by an afestation that that the Punong Barangay was unavailable at the time for the issuance of the BPO)
This protection order is effective for 15 days.
Barangay Protection Order
This refers to the protection order issued by the court on the date of filing of the application after ex parte determination that such order should be issued.
Temporary Protection Order
This refers to protection order issued by the court after notice and hearing.
Permanent Protection Order
Any barangay official or law enforcer who fails to report the incident shall be liable for a fine not exceeding _____________ or whenever applicable criminal, civil or administrative liability.
Ten Thousand Pesos (P10,000.00)
This council is composed of agencies which are tasked to formulate programs and projects to eliminate VAW based on their mandates as well as develop capability programs for their employees to become more sensitive to the needs of their clients. The Council will also serve as the monitoring body as regards to VAW initiatives.
Inter-Agency Council on Violence Against Women and Their Children (IAC-VAWC)
All records pertaining to cases of violence against women and their children including those in the barangay shall be confidential and all public officers and employees and public or private clinics to hospitals shall respect the right to privacy of the victim. Any person who violates this provision shall suffer the penalty of one (1) year imprisonment and a fine of not more than ___________________.
Five Hundred Thousand pesos (P500,000.00)
This is “AN ACT ESTABLISHING A COMPREHENSIVE JUVENILE JUSTICE AND WELFARE SYSTEM, CREATING THE JUVENILE JUSTICE AND WELFARE COUNCIL UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.”
Republic Act No. 9344
Short title of Republic Act No. 9344.
Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act of 2006
This 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
This 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.
Best Interest of the Child
This refers to a person under the age of eighteen (18) years.
Child
This 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
This refers to a child who is alleged as, accused of, or adjudged as, having committed an offense under Philippine laws.
Children in Conflict with the Law
This 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
This 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
This 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
This 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
This refers to the apprehension or taking into custody of a child in conflict with the law by law enforcement officers or private citizens. It includes the time when the child alleged to be in conflict with the law receives a subpoena under Section 3(b) of Rule 112 of the Revised Rules of Criminal Procedure or summons under Section 6(a) or Section 9(b) of the same Rule in cases that do not require preliminary investigation or where there is no necessity to place the child alleged to be in conflict with the law under immediate custody.
Initial Contact with the Child
This 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
This 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 Justic and Welfare System
This 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
This refers to any act or omission whether punishable under special laws or the Revised Penal Code, as amended.
Offense
This 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
This refers to a principle which requires a process of resolving conflicts with the maximum involvement of the victim, the offender and the community. It seeks to obtain reparation for the victim; reconciliation of the offender, the offended and the community; and reassurance to the offender that he/she can be reintegrated into society. It also enhances public safety by activating the offender, the victim and the community in prevention strategies.
Restorative Justice
This 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
This refers to a 24-hour child-caring institution 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 awaiting court disposition of their cases or transfer to other agencies or jurisdiction.
Youth Detention Home
This 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. Rehabilitation services are provided under the guidance of a trained staff where residents are cared for under a structured therapeutic environment with the end view of reintegrating them into their families and communities as socially functioning individuals. Physical mobility of residents of said centers may be restricted pending court disposition of the charges against them.
Youth Rehabilitation Center
This refers to offenses where there is no private offended party.
Victimless Crimes
What is the minimum age of criminal liability?
15 years old
The Council chaired by the Undersecretary of DSWD, and is attached to the Department of Justice, which is mandated to ensure the implementation of Republic Act No. 9344.
Juvenile Justice and Welfare Council
This institution is responsible for the primary nurturing and rearing of children which is critical in delinquency prevention.
The Family
No personnel of rehabilitation and training facilities shall handle children in conflict with the law without having undergone this program.
Gender Sensitivity Taining
This is “AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE MAGNA CARTA OF WOMEN”
Republic Act No. 9710
This refers to the provision, availability, and accessibility of opportunities, services, and observance of human rights which enable women to actively participate and contribute to the political, economic, social, and cultural development of the nation as well as those which shall provide them equal access to ownership, management, and control of production, and of material and informational resources and benefits in the family, community, and society.
Women Empowerment
This refers to any gender-based distinction, exclusion, or restriction which has the effect or purpose of impairing or nullifying the recognition, enjoyment, or exercise by women, irrespective of their marital status, on a basis of equality of men and women, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural, civil, or any other field.
Discrimination Against Women
This refers to a condition where a whole category of people is excluded from useful and meaningful participation in political, economic, social, and cultural life.
Marginalization
This refers to the basic, disadvantaged, or vulnerable persons or groups who are mostly living in poverty and have little or no access to land and other resources, basic social and economic services such as health care, education, water and sanitation, employment and livelihood opportunities, housing, social security, physical infrastructure; and the justice system.
Marginalized
This refers to those who are engaged directly or indirectly in small farms and forest areas, workers in commercial farms and plantations, whether paid or unpaid, regular or season-bound.
Small Farmers and Rural Workers
This refers to those directly or indirectly engaged in taking, culturing, or processing fishery or aquatic resources.
Fisherfolk