JD Thesis 1 - MY RESEARCH PROBLEM PRIORITIZATION MATRIX

Name: _________________________________________ JD3

Directions:
1. List down three topics of interest (according to your order of priority, familiarity and competence)
which you would like to have for your proposal.
2. State the main objective.
3. Indicate the significance of your topic to the following: legislature, executive department, present
generation, future generation, lawyers, law students, and others.
4. You may extend the table/columns if necessary.

Topic Rationale/Objective Significance

Priority Topic 1
Defense of Insanity: an escape insanity as a defense and how
clause for criminals?
-To know the prevalence of using
It is easy to use insanity
does criminals prove it. plea as an escape from
possible prosecution due to
-To have a research about the committing a criminal
statistics of those criminals who offense. Insanity is the best
recently got acquitted due to defense for an individual to
insanity defense and its avoid criminal liability.
aftermath. However, there are some
conditions that must be taken
-To know how accurate the into consideration. An insane
process of proving insanity in the person under Paragraph 1,
Philippine courts. Article 1 of the Revised Penal
Code of the Philippines, the
-To know if there can be a person is exempt from
proposed amendment in making criminal liability if he or she
such defense harder to prove by acted during lucid interval.
criminals There should be clear and
convincing evidence to prove
the defendant's insanity.

When insanity is used

as a defense, the burden is on
the defense as the appellant
has to prove that the
perpetrator is insane
immediately before the
commission of the crime or at
the moment of its execution.
There should be proof that
the accused acted without
discernment.

It is important to
know how well does the court
decide if the insanity plea is
real or not because it will
affect the lives of others. A

Priority Topic 2
The theory of broken
windows: the influence of the
environment on the crime rate
in the Philippines
-To make a comprehensive
analysis about the impact of the
environment on the crime rate.
-To know the statistics and make
a research about how does the
community raised a person that
became a criminal due to its
surrounding and factors that
affecting his being.
criminal can be acquitted and
be scot-free when they
availed this defense. It can be
abuse and use by those
criminals who wants to get
away with their crime.
The physical and
emotional impact of crime
can be devastating both for
those who are harmed and
for their families and friends.
No matter what the crime or
circumstances in which it was
committed, it may diminish
the victims' sense of control
and self-worth.

Crime however, affects

Priority Topic 3 -This research aims to make an
output to know if freedom of
Pride or prejudice: is the religion with regard to opposing
concept of religious freedom the emergence of modern laws is
still relevant amidst emerging still important or it should be
modern laws? amended to give way to the set of
new laws that the society aims to
address.
-To make a comprehensive
analysis about the impact of the
emergence of modern laws in the
exercise of religious freedom in
our country.
-To explore the arguments
regarding the supporters of the
modern laws in contrast with the
views of the people who protect
their freedom of religion and
their beliefs.
different people in different
ways. But we should also
know how does the
environment affect a person
to become a criminal. Past
and changing crime rates
indicate something about our
environment with regard to
the development of a person
and how it started to do
wrong.
Due to the emergence
of modern laws around the
world, our country is facing a
new era of proposals in the
Senate and House of
Representatives such as
SOGIE Bill, Divorce, and
Same-sex Marriage. The
freedom of religion is under
attack since then. It was a
continuous debate about
how it may affect the rights of
others if such modern laws
will contravene with the
religious beliefs of a person.
It is a hot topic today
that many people uphold
their rights and religion to
contravene with the laws that
promotes a drastic change in
our society.

“Tao? Bagay? Hayop?: Is RA
10631 still sufficient to
address the growing cases of
bestiality in the country?”
-To research about the effects of
the drastic change in the society
that support the passage of
modern laws that may directly
affect the freedom of religion and
its expression.
-This research aims to know if RA
10631 is still sufficient to address
the prevalence of bestiality cases
in the country. Also, if the Animal
Welfare Act is the law that must
penalize such acts or there is a
need of a new law to address the
sexual crimes against animals.
-This thesis aims to address the
prevalence of cases regarding
Freedom of religion is
under attack since the dawn
of the new era of modern
laws. It became a huge barrier
for these proposals to
become a law but due to the
diverse group that support
the passage of these bills, the
freedom of religion is being
besmirched with opposing
views and criticism. This study
aims to explore the idea of
the effects of modern laws in
compromising the exercise of
the freedom of religion of a
person against those who
wants to bid liberty to do the
things that they want under
the emergence of these
proposals.
All of these modern
laws show exclusion or non-
mention of the other sector
immediately affected by the
bill. It is immediately a one-
sided bill which is supposed to
be anti-discrimination. This
research aims to make an
output to know if freedom of
religion with regard to
opposing the emergence of
modern laws is still important
or it should be amended to
give way to the set of new
laws that the society aims to
address.
Taboo as a subject to be
sure, sexual crimes against
animals are not exceptional,
isolated incidents. The case
facts run a wide range – from
individual animals assaulted
by their owners in their
homes, to organized
bestiality events held at
clandestine, often rural
locations.
sexual assault of animals in the -Not surprisingly, limited
Philippines. Few days ago, we research – such as a 2002
heard the news about a study – places these crimes in
construction worker “raping” a the context of what experts in
pig in Sual, Pangasinan. Most of animal abuse and criminal
the reaction of netizens about the justice refer to as “The Link,”
news stated that such acts are i.e. the well-documented
disturbing for a human eye. connection between violence
to animals and violence to
-Bestiality occurs when a human humans. Below are some
engages in sexual acts with an examples of media-covered
animal. It is prevalent throughout incidents:
the world and is more common 2010: Drug smuggler arrested
than most think. For instance, in in bestiality case
parts of Colombia, it is a rite of 2017: Second man charged in
passage for a male to have sex sexual assault of therapy dog
with a donkey. In the United 2018: Brown County horse
States, bestiality is legal in the molestation case provides
District of Columbia as well as puzzle for legal, psychiatric
nine states—Hawaii, Kentucky, communities
Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio,
Texas, Vermont, West Virginia, These are only some of the
and Wyoming. In Mexico, it is cases that shows how
reported that there are shows prevalent bestiality is.
where a person can pay to see a
woman and a donkey engage in -Internationally, 45 states in
sexual acts. There aren’t exactthe United States have laws
figures detailing the commonality
which expressly criminalize
of bestiality, but it is legal in many
the sexual assault of an
parts of the world. In 2013, animal, though these
Denmark had a law which stated provisions are often poorly
that bestiality can be permitted as
equipped to accomplish
long as the animal didn’t suffer;
meaningful convictions. If the
but of course, how can one tell if
abuser is also the owner of
an animal has suffered? Who is to
the animal, it was stated at
judge? Is the trier of fact to judge
the animal victims in
suffering from an animal’s bestiality cases are in danger
perspective or a human’s? And of being returned to their
how does one judge “suffering”?abusers if the state laws are
Does physical or psychological weak or underutilized on the
pain count? This law was also issue of forfeiture. Where the
found in Sweden and Finland. law requires that an
However, in 2014, Sweden “evidence” animal must wait
banned bestiality, and Denmark out the weeks and months of
followed suit in 2015 amid a pending criminal
concerns of sex tourism with prosecution before (ideally,
animals, although it is still legal in
upon the abuser’s conviction)
Finland. being legally available for
adoption, it is a bitter – and
-The fact that bestiality is a often costly – frustration for
common occurrence in some all involved.
 parts of the world is horrifying.
Furthermore, a person should not -This research aims to know if
be able to circumvent the law by it is now time for the
stating (and proving) that he or Philippines to take a step in
she never penetrated the animal criminalizing the act of
in order to avoid criminal bestiality rather than putting
prosecution. In the future, it under the provisions of RA
lawmakers must do more to 10631.
protect the welfare of an animal,
and can work to deter this
behavior with increased
penalties, such as: two to three
years’ imprisonment coupled with
psychiatric help and placing the
perpetrator’s name on a bestiality
registry to prevent him or her
from owning animals. The
decision is for the lawmakers; but
whatever they decide they must
put the welfare of the sexually
abused animal first and prevent
those who wish to fornicate with
animals from continuing their
practice.

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