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PAROLE AND PROBATION MONTH AND WEEK – JULY 18-24 EVERY YEAR
REPUBLIC ACT 10707 – AN ACT AMNDING PD 968 OTHERWISE KNOWN AS PROBATIONAL LAW
PROBATION (SUBOK LAYA) – A DISPOSITION UNDER WHICH A DEFENDANT, AFTER CONVICTION AND
SENTENCE, IS RELEASED SUBJECT TO CONDITIONS IMPOSED BY THE COURT AND TO A SUPERVISION OF
A PROBATION OFFICER, A PRIVILEGE GRANTED BY THE COURT TO A PERSON CONVICTED OF A CRIMINAL
OFFENSE TO REMAIN IN THE COMMUNITY INSTEAD OF ACTUALLY GOING TO PRISON/JAIL.
SENTENCE PROBATION
1 YEAR BELOW 2 YEARS
1 YEARS ABOVE NOT MORE THAN 6 YEARS
PENOLOGY – IT IS THE STUDY OF PUNISHMENT FOR CRIME OR CRIMINAL OFFENDERS WHICH ALSO
INCLUDES THE STUDY OF CONTROL AND PREVENTION OF CRIMES THROUGH PUNISHMENT OF
CRIMINAL OFFENDERS.
THEORY OF CRIMINOLOGY
POSITIVIST – STATES THAT CRIMINALS ARE CONSIDERED SICK INDIVIDUALS WHO NEED TO BE TREATED
BY TREATMENT PROGRAMS RATHER THAN PUNITIVE ACTIONS AGAINST THEM.
NEO-CLASSICAL THEORY – WHICH STATES THAT CHILDREN AND LUINATICS CANNOT CALCULATE THE
DIFFERENCE OF PLEASURE FROM PAIN, THEY SHOULD NOT BE REGARDED AS CRIMINALS, HENCE THEY
SHOULD BE FREE FROM PUNISHMENT.
TWELVE TABLES – REPRESENTS THE EARLIEST CODIFICATION OF THE ROMAN LAW THAT WAS
INCORPORATED INTO THE JUSTINIAN CODE.