Arjay Baguio & Renzo Miguel Medida BFA-FD4

CHAPTER 8

I. WHAT IS Crime and Criminal Justice IN THE PHILIPPINES

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
• Understand the extent of public concern about crime
• Explain how the news media contribute to myths about crime
• Describe how crime in the Philippines is measured

II. DEFINITION
WHAT IS CRIME?

Types of Crime
 Violent Crime
 Property Crime
 White-Collar Crime
 Organized Crime
 Consensual Crime

Who Commits Crime

 Gender
 Age
 Social Class
 Urban versus Rural Residence
 Race and Ethnicity

WHAT IS CRIMINAL JUSTICE?

The Criminal Justice System

• Police
• Criminal Courts
• The Problem of Prisons

Sociological Explanations of Crime

A. The Functional Perspective: Social Structure Theories
1.1 Social Disorganization Theory
1.2 Anomie Theory

III. History of BILIBID PRISON

1.1 Compare the ways of imprisonment in the Philippines and in other countries