The document discusses the criminal justice system, including its role as a social institution and system. It also discusses key aspects like due process, distinctions between criminology and criminal justice, juvenile justice, and models for administering justice.
The document discusses the criminal justice system, including its role as a social institution and system. It also discusses key aspects like due process, distinctions between criminology and criminal justice, juvenile justice, and models for administering justice.
The document discusses the criminal justice system, including its role as a social institution and system. It also discusses key aspects like due process, distinctions between criminology and criminal justice, juvenile justice, and models for administering justice.
The document discusses the criminal justice system, including its role as a social institution and system. It also discusses key aspects like due process, distinctions between criminology and criminal justice, juvenile justice, and models for administering justice.
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
•-is a social institution and a
system. AS A SOCIAL INSTITUTION
•- the system attempts to meet society’s
needs for law, justice, peace and order. AS A SYSTEM •- Criminal justice depends on due process involving the five pillars: police; prosecution; court; correction; and the community. DUE PROCESS •-is provided by law and the rules of court with the goal of service of justice that is effective, accurate, timely, fair and respectful to human rights. DISTINCTION BETWEEN CRIMINOLOGY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE •Criminology •-as Edwin Sutherland described criminology as “the body of knowledge regarding crime as a social phenomenon’’. CRIMINAL JUSTICE •- refers to the study of processes involved in a system of justice, the people who perform these tasks, the scope and nature of the system, and public policy, laws and regulations that shape the administration and outcomes of criminal justice system. ADULT CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND JUVENILE JUSTICE • * Person below the legal age (18) who committed a crime is processed under Republic Act No. 9344 as amended by RA 10630 or act establishing a Comprehensive Juvenile Justice and Welfare System. • * Person in the legal age shall be prosecuted in accordance with the Revised Rules of Court promulgated by the Supreme Court in the exercise of its Rule making power under the Constitution. •The Juvenile Justice system has a special Court( the Family Court) which is a Regional Trial court designated by the Supreme court to handle family related cases including juvenile cases. There is no separate police for juveniles, but there is a different approach for them. The juvenile will not be subjected to arrest but a different approach in taking a child into police custody such as a procedure for initial contact with the child. INITIAL CONTACT WITH A CHILD •-refers to the apprehension or taking into custody of a child in conflict with the law by a law enforcement officers or private citizens. WOMEN AND CHILDREN’S PROTECTION DESK OFFICER •- it is in-charge for the investigation of Child in Conflict with the Law (CICL) cases for proper disposition under the existing laws and procedure. THE REVISED RULE ON CHILDREN IN CONFLICT WITH THE LAW OF 2019. • *When the Revised Rules do not apply to: • 1. A person who, at the time of the initial contact, shall have reached the age of 18 in which case, the regular rules on criminal procedure shall apply. • 2. Child at Risk. As defined in the Revised Rule, a “child at risk” refers to a child who is vulnerable to and at the risk of committing criminal offenses because of personal, family and social circumstances. TWO MODELS IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE •1. Crime control- the administration of criminal justice must concentrated in efficiency through increased capacity to apprehend, try, convict and giving emphasis on speed and finality of cases in dealing with those accused of crime. DUE PROCESS MODEL
•-The primary consideration of this
model is to protect the rights of the accused, the individual freedoms and the general consideration of liberty, the basic right of an individual. THANK YOU FOR LISTENING!