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Isabela State University San Fabian, Echague, Isabela Non-Institutional Correction (Probation, Parole ad Executive Clemency) An Instructional Material Reynaldo M. Esmeralda, M.S. Crim. Instructor Second Semester School Year 2015-2016
ISABELA STATE UNIVERSITY ECHAGUE VMGO UNIVERSITY VISION The Isabela State University as a leading, vibrant, comprehensive and Research University in the country and the ASEAN region. UNIVERSITY MISSION The Isabela State University is committed to develop highly trained and globally competent professionals; generate innovative and cutting-edge knowledge and technologies for people empowerment and sustainable development; engage in viable resource generation programs; and maintain and enhance stronger partnerships under good governance to advance the interests of national and international communities. GOALS OF THE COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES 1. Provide general education in the arts and sciences for the development of students mentally, socially, spiritually, and emotionally transforming them into well-rounded individuals. 2. Develop students into productive citizens both economically and socially with the end in view of improving the quality of their lives and that of their fellowmen. 3. Produce graduates, majority of whom are locally and globally competitive in their chosen fields of their careers. 4. Cultivate and sharpen students’ potentials and hasten their relationship capabilities to answer the needs of their community and society to which they belong. OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAM General Objective The program provides the community with professionally competent and orally upright graduates who can deliver efficient and effective services in crime prevention, crime detection and investigation, law enforcement, and custody and rehabilitation of offenders, among others. The program is also envisioned as significant educational institutions actively and continually involved in producing graduates who have the knowledge and skills in addressing the problem of criminality in the country and the competence to meet the challenge of globalization in the field of criminology. Specific Objectives The BS Criminology program aims to: 1. Foster the values of leadership, integrity, accountability and responsibility while serving their fellowmen, community and country. 2. Prepare the students for careers in crime prevention, law enforcement, scientific crime detection and correctional administration; 3. Encouraged research and inquiry on the nature, causes, treatment or punishment of criminal justice agencies respond to crime, criminals and victims. 2 Non-Institutional Correction Instructional Material Reynaldo M. Esmeralda, M.S. Crim. “This is for criminological purposes and therefore not for sale.” School Year 2015-2016
JOHN AUGUSTUS – “The father of probation in USA.” ISABELA STATE UNIVERSITY ECHAGUE Subject Code: Correctional Administration (CA) 2 Course Description: The course focuses on Presidential Decree 968, otherwise known as the “Probation Law of 1976 as Amended, “establishing a probation system in the Philippines, its historical background, philosophy, concepts and operation as a new correctional system, investigation, selection and condition of probation, distinction between incarceration, parole, probation and other forms of executive clemency, total involvement of probation in the administration of the Criminal Justice System. This course also treats the study of act 4103, as amended, otherwise known as the “Indeterminate Sentence Law” that created the Board of Pardons and Parole, system of releasing and recognizance, execution, clemency and pardon. General Objectives: Upon completion of the course the students are expected to: 1. interpret the provisions of laws related to probation, parole and executive clemency; 2. explain fully the basic concepts, principles and philosophy of the Probation System as well as parole and executive clemency; 3. describe the relationships of the probation administration with the other pillars of criminal justice system; 4. recommend or provide solutions or problems involving probation investigation and supervision; 5. discuss the operations of probation in the country; 6. apply learned concepts in their everyday life. 3 Non-Institutional Correction Instructional Material Reynaldo M. Esmeralda, M.S. Crim. “This is for criminological purposes and therefore not for sale.” School Year 2015-2016 Student Name: __________________________________________________________________________ Address: _______________________________________________________________________________ Parole and Probation Administration (PPA) Official Logo
ISABELA STATE UNIVERSITY ECHAGUE CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNITY BASED CORRECTION PROGRAM CHAPTER CONTENTS 1. The Present Philippine Correctional Set-Up 2. Community-Based Correction Programs in the Philippines 3. Advantage of Community Based Correction Programs 4. The role of Community Corrections in the Criminal Justice System 5. Basic Principles Underlying the Philosophy of Community-Based Treatment Programs 6. Subject coverage SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES At the end of the chapter, students should be able to: 1. define correction and identify its role as component of criminal justice system. 2. illustrate and understand the present Philippine correctional set-up. 3. define community-based correction. 4. differentiate and compare institutional correction to community based correction program. 5. identify the advantages of community based correction program and explain its role in the criminal justice system. 6. identify and justify the basic principles underlying the philosophy of community based-treatment programs. 7. enumerates and differentiates the forms of community based correction program. I. THE PRESENT PHILIPPINE CORRECTIONAL SET-UP A. WHAT IS CORRECTION? Correction is the branch of the administration of CJS charged with the responsibility for the custody, supervision and rehabilitation of convicted offenders. It is also define as the STUDY OF JAIL OR PRISON MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION as well as the rehabilitation and reformation of criminals. Further, it is define as a GENERIC TERM that includes all government agencies, facilities, programs, procedures, personnel, and techniques concerned with the investigation, intake, custody, confinement, supervision, or treatment of alleged offenders. B. DUAL PURPOSE OF CORRECTIONS 1. To punish and 2. To rehabilitate the offender. C. THE CORRECTIONS AS A COMPONENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM Correction is the fourth pillar of the PCJS, and identified as the weakest pillar. As a field of criminal justice administration, it utilizes the body of knowledge and practices of the government and the society in general involving the process of handling individuals who have been convicted of offenses for purposes of crime prevention and control. Among the five pillars of the criminal justice system, corrections is the least heard, known or understood society seems to have some reluctance to look at it although its role in the reformation and rehabilitation of offenders cannot be overemphasized. Furthermore, jail administration and control in our country is distributed to at least, four agencies: 1. The BUREAU OF CONNECTIONS (BUCOR), under the DOJ; which has supervision over the national penitentiary and its penal farms; 2. The BUREAU OF JAIL MANAGEMENT AND PENOLOGY (BJMP), under the DILG; which has the exclusive control over all city, municipal and district Jails nationwide; 3. The PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENTS, under DILG; which supervise and control their respective provincial and sub-provincial Jails; and 4. the DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND DEVELOPMENT (DSWD), which takes care of, among others, youthful offenders entered in detention centers for juveniles, aside from thesce, Other agencies under this pillar are the: (Community Based Correction) 1. The Parole and Probation Administration (PPA) under the Department of Justice (DOJ); and 4 Non-Institutional Correction Instructional Material Reynaldo M. Esmeralda, M.S. Crim. “This is for criminological purposes and therefore not for sale.” School Year 2015-2016