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  2. Revised Penal Code - Wikipedia

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    For purposes of this section, and elsewhere when cited, a public officer is a anyone who takes part in public functions of the government of the Philippines. Other crimes committed by public officers are included in the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act, and other laws.

  3. Crime in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Violence against women in the Philippines includes different forms of gender-based violence. The term " violence against women " is "the word or concept (that) has been used in a broad, inclusive manner to encompass verbal abuse , intimidation, physical harassment, homicide , sexual assault , and rape ."

  4. Philippine criminal law - Wikipedia

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    Under the Revised Penal Code, when more than one person participated in the commission of the crime, the law looks into their participation because in punishing offenders, the Revised Penal Code classifies them as principals, accomplices, or accessories. A person can be liable as a principal for (a) taking a direct part in the execution of the ...

  5. Monopoly on violence - Wikipedia

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    Due to the monopoly on violence held by the state, the policeman is allowed to use force and the threat of force legally, while the suspect is not. In political philosophy , a monopoly on violence or monopoly on the legal use of force is the property of a polity that is the only entity in its jurisdiction to legitimately use force , and thus ...

  6. Violent crime - Wikipedia

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    A violent crime, violent felony, crime of violence or crime of a violent nature is a crime in which an offender or perpetrator uses or threatens to use harmful force upon a victim. This entails both crimes in which the violent act is the objective, such as murder , assault , rape and assassination , as well as crimes in which violence is used ...

  7. Political crime - Wikipedia

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    In criminology, a political crime or political offence is an offence that prejudices the interests of the state or its government. [1] States may criminalise any behaviour perceived as a threat, real or imagined, to the state's survival, including both violent and non-violent opposition.

  8. Violence against women in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Violence against women in the Philippines includes different forms of gender-based violence. The term " violence against women " is "the word or concept (that) has been used in a broad, inclusive manner to encompass verbal abuse , intimidation, physical harassment, homicide , sexual assault , and rape ."

  9. Extrajudicial killings and forced disappearances in the ...

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    Philippine extrajudicial killings are politically motivated murders committed by government officers, punished by local and international law or convention.They include assassinations; deaths due to strafing or indiscriminate firing; massacre; summary execution is done if the victim becomes passive before the moment of death (i.e., abduction leading to death); assassination means forthwith or ...