DRUG ENFORCEMENT, VICE CONTROL, AND ORGANIZED CRIME

Lessons
Week 11

Vice control
a. The social problem of vice
b. Drunkenness as a crime
c. The legal concept of intoxication and criminal liability
d. Treatment and prevention of alcoholism
e. Dangers of the vice of gambling
f. Suggested control and preventive measures
g. The vices of prostitution

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a. The social problem of vice
Vice control must be coordinated efforts
1. the home, school and the church must
campaign for the eradication
2. the government and the police as an agency
of control must embarked on a repressive
measure
3. the people must endeavour to achieve moral
education and economic upliftment

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b. Drunkenness as a crime
• most nations in the world have laws making
drunkenness as a criminal offense
• Philippines, drunkenness itself is not a crime
because a person may drink to excess in
the privacy of his home or in the gaiety of
party and commit no crime
• only when the drunken person exhibits his
disturbances that he become offender and
subject to arrest and punishment
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b. Drunkenness as a crime
• drunkenness however, is considered
misdemeanor
• Manila, the use of alcohol and other
alcoholic beverages are regulated by
ordinances as to TIME, PLACE and
PERSON

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c. The legal concept of intoxication and criminal
liability
• Art. 15, RPC provides that intoxication is
alternative circumstances
• intoxication may be considered as mitigating
circumstances:
1. not habitual
2. intoxication be not planned before the
commission of the crime

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d. Treatment and prevention of alcoholism
Directed to develop these conditions of the
mind of the patient
1. the patient must want to be cured
2. the patient must believe that he can be cured
3. that the treatment will not fail

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d. Treatment and prevention of alcoholism
Following should be done to the patients
the patients must be deprived of the alcohol
slowly
1. he must be given plenty of rest
2. he must be given adequate exercises
3. he must be given proper diet
4. vitamins should be given to him

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e. Dangers of the vice of gambling
• GAMBLING. It is a game of chance or scheme the
result of which depends wholly or chiefly upon the
chance or hazards.
• CHANCE OR HAZARDS. It is the uncertainty of the
result or when the outcome of the game is incapable
of calculation by human reason, foresight sagacity or
design.
• LOTTERY. It is a scheme for the distribution of prizes
by chance among person who have paid or agreed
to pay a valuable consideration for the chance to
obtain a prize.
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e. Dangers of the vice of gambling

• MAINTAINER. Is the person who sets up/ furnishes the means
with which to carry on the gambling game.
• CONDUCTOR. Is the person who manages or carries the
gambling game.
• BANKER. Is the person who keeps the money from which the
winner is to be paid.

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e. Dangers of the vice of gambling

• TOTALIZER. Is the machine for registering and indicating the
number and nature of bets made on horse races.
• WAGER. Is the bet of consideration placed on gambling game.
• PRIZE. An amount due to the winner.
• TOPADA. The illegal cockfighting conducted on a day on a
cockpit not permitted by law.

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e. Dangers of the vice of gambling
Classification of Gambling Games
1. ABSOLUTELY or PERSE prohibited
• e.g., Art. 195, RPC - monte, jueteng, lottery,
policy, banking or percentage game and
dog races
2. REGULATED by law.
• the law allows the to be played except on
certain cases as specified time of the day
• e.g., Art. 199, RPC - cockfighting; Art 198,
RPC - Horse Racing
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e. Dangers of the vice of gambling
1. an evil that undermine the social, moral,
and economic growth of the nation
2. it is beyond the pale of good morals which
has the effects of causing poverty,
dishonesty, fraud, and deceit
3. man to neglect his social obligations and
the welfare of his business as a source of
income

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e. Dangers of the vice of gambling
4. man to neglect his family which causes
broken home
5. women and mothers may neglect her
duties to the children and cause serious
damages or problem

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f. Suggested control and preventive measures of
gambling
1. must conduct a consistent and continued raids,
arrest, and closure of suspected gambling dens
and houses
2. must enact and apply the law with more teeth as
deterrent factors
3. provide mass employment and prosperity of the
people in terms of income
4. building of more recreational and athletic
facilities to divert attention of the people from
gambling activities
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g. The vices of prostitution
• PROSTITUTES are women who, for money or profit,
habitually indulge in sexual intercourse or lascivious
conduct (Article 202, Revised Penal Code)

• PIMP (otherwise known as Ruffians) is one provides

gratification for the lust of others. Sometimes his
other names are “PANDERER or PROCURER”
• OPERATOR or MAINTAINER is one who owns or
manages or ill- refute where the business of
prostitution is conducted, sometimes they are called
MADAM

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g. The vices of prostitution
Laws Pertatining to Prostitution
1. RA10158 - it removed vagrancy from the
country’s list of crime because it targets only
the poor and the disadvantage
• all pending vagrancy cases for the mean
time shall be dismissed and all persons
serving sentence for violating the vagrancy
law shall immediately be released

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g. The vices of prostitution
Laws Pertatining to Prostitution
2. Section 822 of the Revised Ordinance of the
City of Manila
• fine of not more than P200.000 or by
imprisonment of not more than Six (6)
months, with or without hard labour, if on
the streets, or elsewhere

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g. The vices of prostitution
The Causes of Prostitution
1. poor social background and personality
handicaps
2. previous sexual experience
3. contact with persons in the part of the prostitute
4. love for money and luxury
5. lack of restrained check such as the agency for
religious training and reforms
6. influence of contraceptives and preventive
treatment
7. effort to support another vice
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g. The vices of prostitution
The Causes of Prostitution
8. they are victims of white slave traffic such as
kidnapping
9. indifference of law enforcement authorities in
safeguarding the virtues of women
10.social causes of prostitution such as:
a. broken families
b. anonymity of city life
c. poverty and others

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g. The vices of prostitution
Types of Prostitutes
1. Independent Call Girl/Escort
• work for themselves in hotels and private
buildings
• stay away from the public eye
• advertise their services online

2. Escort Agency Employee

• like independent call girls
• charge relatively high prices
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g. The vices of prostitution
Types of Prostitutes
3. Brothel Employee
• work in saunas and massage parlors
• prices they charge are "moderate

4. Window Worker
• enticing passersby to enter houses of prostitution
by prominently displaying the women in windows

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g. The vices of prostitution
Types of Prostitutes
5. Bar or Casino Worker
• sex workers make initial contact with men at a bar
or casino and then have sex at a separate
location

6. Streetwalker
• earn relatively little money and are vulnerable to
exploitation
• notoriously dangerous

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