R.A. 9344 envisioned a holistic and restorative justice approach to addressing the plight of CICLs.

Instead of punishing juvenile offenders and treating them as criminals, the approach aims at
providing help to CICLs to prevent them from committing future offenses. Under this method, efforts
at rehabilitating CICLs require the victim and the community to take an active role in the process.
Effective implementation, not amendment. a holistic and comprehensive intervention to control

crime, which means that punishment and incapacitation are as important as treatment,
opportunities and changes in perspectives are. It also advocates that justice should not be a
product of order but order should spring out of a just society. it is necessary to recognize and be
faithful to the fundamental reality that is childhood (as opposed to adulthood); and to provide
holistic interventions to the elements of the square of the crime. NO
Foster education of every child in the barangay;
-Encourage the proper performance of the duties of parents and provide learning opportunities on
the adequate rearing of children and positive parent-child relationship;
-Report all cases of child abuse to the proper authorities;
-Protect and assist abandoned, maltreated, and abused children and facilitate their cases filed
against child abusers;
-Prevent child labor in their area and protect working children from abuse and exploitation;
-Take steps to prevent juvenile delinquency and to assist children with behavioral problems so that
they can get expert advice;
- Adopt measures to promote the health and nutrition of children;
-Promote the opening and maintenance of playgrounds and day care centers and other services that
are necessary for child and youth welfare;
-Secure the cooperation of organizations devoted to the welfare of children and coordinate their
activities;
-Promote wholesome entertainment in the community especially in movie houses;
-Assist parents whenever necessary in securing expert guidance counselling from the proper
governmental or private welfare agencies;
-Advocate for the passage of child-friendly barangay ordinances in response to child-related issues
and concerns;

-Prepare the barangay plans of action for children which address the needs of children in the
community and ensure their integration into the Barangay Development Plan and implementation by
the barangay.NO.

This means that a child in conflict with the law commits a crime or an offense within
this social context. While the childs immaturity definitely affects his/her behaviour,
his conduct could also be an effect of his relationship to the victim. be faithful to
reality and to the nature of the crime. NO
Obviously, the rehabilitation model would advocate for a separate system as they
recognize that a children were assumed to have different capacities and needs
from adults (in part due to youthful vulnerability and dependence) that warranted
separate adjudicatory procedures and a differential correctional response.NO.
As for the retributive model, they assume that only those persons with rational
choice can be punished for their choice. But since children are developmentally
unable to make this choice, they would need a separate system of their own.NO.
ignore the weak and the marginalized who have least social power, like the children
NO
Philosophers as ancient as Aristotle, 28 and political thinkers like John Locke29 and
John Stuart Mill30 have clearly distinguished children from adults. They in one way
or another agree that children are not yet considered citizens and cannot exercise
their rights and privileges until they reach adulthood. They however should be
protected, taken care of and be educated. NO.
recognizes the importance of surveys and studies, it does not solely rely on it as
statistics generalize concepts away from individual personal experience, social
structures and social history. 44 The youth justice system must still recognize the
specificity in every generalized observation about crime, law and victimization.45
Thus, when crime rates are up, it does not immediately mean that children these
days are worse than the children of the past, it could be many other things. No
The courts might have felt good for saving the public from the children in conflict
with the law but in reality they did not. They just condemned children to the
horrendous jail condition by simply not being faithful to fundamental distinction
between child and adult. No.

Clarence was sent to a secure facility that very much resembled a prison. His family was
destroyed. Paulines family was destroyed. The only slight glimmer of hope was that Clarence
might, while incarcerated, grow up and become a law-abiding adult and that we would not
collectively make him worse than when he went in.
When we consign our youth to the adult system, we are throwing away even that glimmer.
Juvenile sentences, in contrast, shield our youth from the unique dangers of adult facilities and
preserve the possibility however slight it may seem of rehabilitation.

When we consign our youth to the adult system, we are throwing

away even that glimmer. Juvenile sentences, in contrast, shield our

youth from the unique dangers of adult facilities and preserve the
possibility however slight it may seem of rehabilitation.
Studies have shown that the adolescent brain does not process jail time in the same
way as an adult brain. An adult will typically spend their sentence thinking about what
they did, which typically leads to remorse. An adolescent does not approach a prison
term in this way and often times, they will spend their sentence repressing the
memory of their crime.