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The document discusses vice control and organized crime. It covers various vices like drunkenness, gambling, and prostitution. Recommendations are provided for controlling these vices through enforcement of relevant laws and addressing their social and economic root causes.

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WELCOME.

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Drug Enforcement, Vice Control, and
Organized Crime

PLTCOL JOSE C COBALLES

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
DRUG ENFORCEMENT, VICE CONTROL, AND ORGANIZED CRIME

Vice control
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
misdemeanour
• 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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