JUVENILE DELINQUENCY

JUVENILE DELINQUENCY
JUVENILE DELINQUENCY
 CONTENTS

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GOV’T AGENCIES
DEFINITION CONDITION AND
RESPONSIBILITIES
 CONTENTS

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STATISTICS COMPARISON PROBLEMS

RELATED TO WITH AND
THE ISSUE OTHER ISSUES
COUNTRIES
 DEFINITION
• The behavior of a minor child that is marked
by criminal activities, persistent antisocial
behavior, or disobedience which the child’s
parents are unable to control.
Juvenile Delinquency
• Occurs when a minor violates a criminal statue
• It is also used to refer to children who exhibit a persistent behavior
of mischievousness or disobedience, so as to be considered out of
parental control, becoming subject to legal action by the court
system. 
 REPEAT OFFENDERS
• “life-course persistent offenders”
• They continue to engage in criminal
activities or aggressive behaviors even
JUVENILE after they enter adulthood.

DELINQUENT
AGE-SPECIFIC OFFENDERS
• This type of juvenile delinquent behavior
Juvenile delinquents are often begins during adolescence.
• leave their delinquent behavior behind
defined as children between the when they enter adulthood, they often
ages of 10 and 17 who have have more mental health problems,
committed a criminal act. engage in substance abuse, and have
greater financial problems than adults
who were never delinquent as
juveniles.
02 CONDITION
The number of juvenile delinquents in the
Philippines increased from 10,388 in 2017 to
11,228 last year, with physical injury the most
committed crime by minors, the Philippine
National Police – Women and Children
Protection Centre reported in January.
 Police found 11 students suspected to be engaged
in a pot session in Makati City.

Members of the Bantay Bayan and the police then responded and found the students
aged 14 to 17 inside the house.
They later discovered alleged drug paraphernalia that included a sachet of suspected
marijuana, a tooter, five plastic sachets with traces of suspected shabu, 18 pieces of
aluminum foil strips, and five lighters from the students.
The discovery prompted suspicion that the minors were engaged in a pot session.
The case has been referred to the Station Drug Enforcement Unit of the Makati City
Police Station for investigation.
03
GOVERNMENT
AGENCIES AND THEIR
RESPONSIBILITIES

Department of Philippine National

Social Welfare National Police
And Police Commission
Development

National Council for the

Youth Welfare of
Commission Children
 DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL
WELARE AND DEVELOPMENT
Director Rebecca P. Gaemala / Director
IV
Office of the Regional Director
Shalaine Marie S. Lucero
Office of the Assistant Regional Director for
Operations
Antonio R. Dolaota
Office of the Assistant Regional
director for Administration
Rosemarie S. Salazar
Office of the Protective Services Division
Josephine C. Boletindos
Office of the Disaster Response
Management Division
Patricia R. Megalbio
Office of the Financial Management
Division
Emmanuel M. Edles
Office of the Administrative Division
Norman P. Jordan
Office of the Human Resource
Management & Development Division
 DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL
WELARE AND DEVELOPMENT

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PREVENTIVE PROTECTION/ INTERVENTION

STRATEGIES RECOVERY AND SERVICES
AND FOR CHILDREN
REINTEGRATION IN CONFLICT
WITH THE LAW
 DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL
WELARE AND DEVELOPMENT

01 Preventive Strategies
• Considering the uniqueness of the needs of the
youth sector, the Department of Social Welfare
and Development (DSWD) and other government
and nongovernment agencies have implemented
strategies directed to the youth his/her family
and the community
 PREVENTIVE STRATEGIES
(Directed to the youth)
• Free secondary education
• Sikap Kabataang Pinoy (SIKAP) • Intergenerational programme
• The Unlad Kabataan (Youth • Assistance to disadvantaged
Development) Programme transnational children
• Education and organization of • Supervised neighbourhood
out-of-school youths play
• Information and education • Bright Child
activities
• School-on-the-Air
• “Ahon Bata sa Lansangan”
• Bantay-Bata (Child Watch)
• Child-minding service
hotlines
 PREVENTIVE STRATEGIES
(Directed to the Family)

• Systematic Training of Effective Parenting

(STEP)
• Family Drug Abuse Programme
• Night Care for Children and Working Mothers
• Empowerment and Reaffirmation of Paternal
Abilities (ERPAT)
 PREVENTIVE STRATEGIES
(Directed to the Community)

• Organization of the Barangay Council for

the Protection of Children
• Organization of community
mobilization/development of volunteers
 PROTECTION/RECOVERY AND
REINTEGRATION

• Missing Children Programme

• Adoption Programme
• Child care and placement service
• Residential care service
• Social services for children in need of special protection
• Special Drug Education Centre (SDEC)
• Group home for street children
• Legal guardianship
 INTERVENTIONS AND
SERVICES FOR CHILDREN IN
CONFLICT WITH THE LAW
Interventions and Services for Children in Conflict with the Law Certain
services are provided by the government to youth offenders and to assist
them and their families. The objective is to rehabilitate and reintegrate youth
offenders into the mainstream of society and facilitate their access to
developmental opportunities. The DSWD implements both community-based
or noninstitutional and centre-based or institutional programmes for youth
offenders.
 INTERVENTIONS AND
SERVICES FOR CHILDREN IN
CONFLICT WITH THE LAW
(Centre-based) • Educational services
• Casework/group work services • Spiritual/religious activities
• Organization of support groups • Functional literacy
• Psychological and psychiatric • Provision of limited financial
intervention assistance
• Medical services
• Issuance of travel clearance
• Livelihood service
• Group living services/ home life
• Recreational, sports and other
services socio-cultural activities
 INTERVENTIONS AND
SERVICES FOR CHILDREN IN
CONFLICT WITH THE LAW

(Community-based)
• After care services
• Conduct of Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD)
• Family reunification and counselling
• Socio-legal services
-Diversion / Mediation
-Release on Recognizance
-Custody Supervision
PHILIPPINE NATIONAL
POLICE
• The Philippine National Police carries out a
Child Protection Programme and initiates
activities to promote the welfare of children.
• The most acknowledge programe of the PNP
was the establishmen of the Women and
Children’s Protection Desk in every police
station throughout the country to attend to
cases of women and children victims of
violence
PGen. Camilo Pancratius PLt. Gen. Cesar Hawthrone R.
Binag, Deputy Chief for Operations.
P. Cascolan, Chief, PNP.

PLt. Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo T. PMaj. Gen Joselito M. Vera

Eleazar, Deputy Chief for Cruz, Chief of Directorial
Administration. Staff.
1. Training and other Capacity-Building Activities for
WCPD Officers
2. Other Skills Enhancement Programmes
3. Production of Information-Education Campaign
materials
4. Outstanding Women and Children’s Desk Officers
5. Police Diversion of CICL through Case
Conferencing
6. PNP Women’s crisis and Child Protection Centre
7. Project OYSTER
8. SAGIP- Saklolohan at Gabayan Ina at Pamilya
(Help and Guide Mothers and Family) Centre
9. GO-NGO collaboration
10. Halfway Houses
11. Other Local Initiatives
12. PNP Involvement in the Legislative Agenda
 NATIONAL POLICE
COMMISSION

DEPARTMENT EXECUTIVES:
• Sec. Eduardo M. Ano (DILG Secretary)
• Chairman Rogelio T. Casurao
• Vice Chairman and executive Officer Pgen. Camilo Pancratius
P. Cascolan
 NATIONAL POLICE
COMMISSION
1. Police Handling of Cases of Children in Conflict with the Law- is a study
conducted by the NAPOLCOM commissioned by UNICEF. The research
also found that despite existing policies, procedures and structures that
give preferential attention to the plight of children in conflict with the law,
there have been problems in the handling of children’s cases prior to court
proceedings.
 NATIONAL POLICE
COMMISSION
2. Standard Reporting Format — One of the recommendations of the study on Police Handling of
Cases of CICL is the issuance of an order requiring the use of a standard reporting format so that
proper, accurate and complete documentation could be made regarding cases of children. This has
been done with the issuance of NAPOLCOM Memorandum Circular No. 2004-003 on May 18, 2004
entitled “Guidelines for Improving Case Management and Initiating Efforts towards Addressing the
Problem of Trafficking in Persons”.
- The format aims to establish a uniform or standard system of reporting cases making possible the
monitoring and documentation of statistical data on trafficking in persons at the precinct levels as well
as other cases of women and children.
 NATIONAL YOUTH COMMISSION
National Youth Commission Officials:

OFFICE OF THE CHAIRPERSON AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER- RYAN R. ENRIQUEZ

OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER REPRESENTING LUZON- LAURENCE ANTHONY D.
DIESTRO COMMISSIONER REPRESENTING LUZON
OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER REPRESENTING VISAYAS- VICTOR DEL ROSARIO
COMMISSIONER REPRESENTING VISAYAS
OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER-AT-LARGE- PAUL ANTHONY M. PANGIINAN
REGIONAL YOUTH DEVELOPMENT DIVISION- MELANIO STELLA, MPA DIVISION CHIEF,
FERNANDO QUIAZON, ASSISTANT DIVISION CHIEF
 NATIONAL YOUTH COMMISSION
• Republic Act 8044 otherwise known as the Youth in Nation-Building Act was approved creating
the National Youth Commission to serve as the sole policymaking and coordinating body of all
youth programmes and projects of the government

1. Youth Entrepreneurship Programme (YEP)

2. Kabataan 2000
3. Integrated Sangguniang Kabataan Organizational, Leadership, and Reorientation
(ISKOLAR) Programme
4. Ship for Southeast Asian Youth Programme (SSEAYP)
5. National Youth Parliament
 NATIONAL YOUTH COMMISSION
6. National Youth Environmental Action Plan and
Green Brigade
7. Student Government Management
Programme
8. Bantay Tele-Cinema Youth Network
9. National Inter-Fraternity and Sorority Council
 Council for the Welfare of Children
Mari Mitzi “Mitch” L. Cajayon-Uy – Executive Director of the Council for
the Welfare of Children

The Council for the Welfare of Children (CWC) is the apex agency for children’s
protection, welfare and development in the Philippines. It is the focal coordinating
agency of the Philippine Government for children’s concerns.
 Council for the
Welfare of Children
1. Philippine National Strategic Framework for Plan Development
for Children (Child 21) — a strategic framework that will guide
stakeholders in planning programmes and interventions that
promote and safeguard the rights of Filipino children in the 21st
century. It advocates not only for a more focused targeting for
children but also for interfacing critical interventions at the various
stages of a child’s development.

2. The Search for Child Friendly Cities and Municipalities — to

support the child-friendly movement which is a growing worldwide
effort to operationalize the Convention on the Rights of the Child
(CRC). It involves children themselves, families, communities,
church groups, and the government. Aptly put, it aims to place
children at the centre of all development efforts to effect
sensitization of society toward child-friendliness.
04 STATISTICS RELATED
TO THE ISSUE
 4%

36%

60%

Crimes against property Crimes against person

Violation against special law

• Theft cases recorded reached 3,715, while physical-injury cases totaled
1,859. Rape cases involving child perpetrators reached 642.
• The total number of theft cases from 2012 to 2015 reached 13,680.
• the total number of physical-injury cases (6,062), robbery (2,446 cases),
rape (1,973 cases reported) and cases involving prohibited drugs (818).
• there were at least 4.5 murder cases reported every month in the past
48 months ending 2015 that involved children.
05 COMPARISON WITH
OTHER COUNTRIES
 MINOR VIOLENCE SERIOUS VIOLENCE

1. Ireland 1. Germany
2.France 2.Ireland
3.Netherland 3.Netherland
4.Armenia 4.Aruba
5.USA 5.USA
6.Germany 6.France
7.Hungary 7.Austria
8.Italy 8.Italy
9.Denmark 9.Belgium
10. Belgium 10.Denmark
06
PROBLEMS AND
ISSUES
“That’s the call of Congress. It’s the Congress that will make the law. The president
did not say nine in particular. Just lower it. We will not question the wisdom of the
lawmakers. It’s their decision,” Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said on
Monday as quoted by Manila Bulletin.

“From the point of view of the president, the law presently, is being used by
criminals to use the children. So to my mind he wants that amendment to protect
the children,” said Panelo, who is also the chief presidential legal counsel.

"If you have a law that will criminalise this particular age bracket, criminals will not
use them anymore because it would be useless."
Justice committee chair Doy Leachon concurred.
 Meanwhile, human rights groups decried
the measure, with one spokesman saying
that the law would place "the burden on a
child for the failures of institutions meant
to protect them".
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