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Heinous Crimes: Blueprint for Criminal Actions
The third edition of this book aims to enhance the appreciation not only the testimonial evidence but also reliable science-based exhibits. This new edition is a collective guide for law enforcers and other legal professionals in criminal probe, trial and even appeal. It will certainly improve knowledge in the areas of medico-legal, ballistics, forensic chemistry, and forensic biology (fingerprints and DNA).
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Criminal Law Reviewer 2025 Bar Examinations
This Criminal Law Reviewer is designed to be your ultimate study companion, whether you are a bar candidate or a legal professional. Unlike ordinary review materials that merely list legal provisions, this book systematically presents criminal law concepts in a structured, digestible, and practical manner. It provides in-depth discussions, requisites, enumerations, and, most importantly, Regularly Asked Bar (RAB) Questions—those that have frequently appeared in past bar exams and are likely to be asked again.
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Criminal Law, Concept and Jurisprudence (Book Two, Volume Two)
The life of a book is continuing because our laws keep on evolving. As new laws and Supreme Court’s decisions continue to come out, lawyers and law students alike should keep abreast of legal
developments. It is a must that this book should also be revised to come up with these new laws and decisions.Book Two is presented in two volumes: Volume One presents Titles One and Seven, inclusive; and Volume Two covers Titles Eight and Fourteen, inclusive, all of the Revised Penal Code.
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Criminal Law, Concept and Jurisprudence (Book Two, Volume One)
Book Two is presented in two volumes: Volume One presents Titles One and Seven, inclusive; and Volume Two covers Titles Eight and Fourteen, inclusive, all of the Revised Penal Code.
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Philippine Laws and Jurisprudence on Anti-Human Trafficking
Last October 2020, the first edition of this book went into print. Due to several updates on the law and jurisprudence on human trafficking, this is now an opportune time to come up with the second edition. First, the passage of R.A. 11862 which expanded the previous anti-human trafficking laws became effective last June 2022. The Expanded law significantly added several definitions aimed to penalize modern ways of committing human trafficking such as Online Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Children and use of Child Sexual Exploitation of Children among others. Also, the Expanded law provides more protection against vulnerable members of our society such as persons with disability or a member of an indigenous community.
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Unlocking Women’s Rights: The Special Laws for Empowerment
This compilation of special laws on women in the Philippines is not merely a collection of legal texts but a testament to the nation’s ongoing efforts to achieve gender justice. It encompasses a range of legislation, from the Anti-Violence Against Women and Their Children Act, which provides robust protection against domestic violence, to the Magna Carta of Women, a landmark law that affirms women’s rights as human rights and sets out comprehensive measures to eliminate discrimination.
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Effective Criminal Defenses
The distinct features of this book could keep a criminal lawyer up to date with legal defenses, major Supreme Court decisions, and most importantly the changes in Philippine criminal justice, patterned after international judicial trends. There is orderly administration of justice and respect for the rule of law when criminal cases are resolved expeditiously.
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Criminal Law: Concepts and Jurisprudence Book One
The author was constrained to issue this 2024 edition after the Supreme Court had rendered decisions after the lifting of the pandemic. For the past two years, we saw some notable decisions which should form part of this book.
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Post Conviction Remedies after Finality of Judgment
Judge Dionis P. Jacobe wrote a dissertation entitled “Post-Conviction Remedies after Finality of Judgement” for the degree Doctor of Juridical Science (JSD) at the Graduate School of Law of San Beda University. His panel of examiners lauded the dissertation as a salutary proposal to remedy an existing lacuna in the law.
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The Revised Penal Code (Book Two) in Action: Part 2
The book also contains a comprehensive but easy to understand explanation of each crime, particularly, its nature, elements, and distinctions with other related crimes. It is loaded with illustrative cases, old and new. There are also a lot of examples and bar questions with answers based on prevailing jurisprudence to pique the mind and challenge one’s analytical thinking.
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The Revised Penal Code (Book Two) in Action: Part 1
Aptly titled “The Revised Penal Code (Book Two) in Action,” this book, which we wrote during a season of upheaval, is distinctive from the rest because it is the fulfillment of our long-planned venture into the complexities of the Revised Penal Code and related special laws.
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Criminal Law Simplified
Criminal Law is a branch of public substantive law which defines what a crime is and imposes a penalty. Being a substantive law, it creates a right, the right of the state to impose a penalty. If there is a right violated, there is a crime.
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Commentaries on Criminal Law (Revised Penal Code) Book 2 Part 2
This book, Part Two of Book Two, intends to present to the law students, the Bar candidates, the Bench and the Bar the different felonies defined under Titles Eight to Fifteen of the Revised Penal Code, in a simplified manner that is neither boring nor intimidating.
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Commentaries on Criminal Law (Revised Penal Code) Book 2 Part 1
This book, Part One of Book Two, intends to present to the law students, the Bar candidates, the Bench and the Bar the different felonies defined under Titles One to Seven of the Revised Penal Code, in a simplified manner that is neither boring nor intimidating. Titles Eight to Fifteen are to be presented in Part Two.
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Commentaries on Criminal Law (Revised Penal Code) Book 1
This book endeavors to help the law students, the bar candidates and practitioners in their study of criminal law by providing them with a wider range of options in the selection of textbooks and reference books on the subject for their use.
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Gender Sensitivity and Laws on Women and Children
GENDER SENSITIVITY AND LAWS ON WOMEN AND CHILDREN
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Hornbook Rules on the Dangerous Drugs Law
The pernicious effect of illegal drugs on the youth and our society as a whole is undisputed. It is known for not only destroying families and relationships but also for inducing the commission of crimes. Drug-related crimes are the direct result of drug addiction, as well as the internecine fight between members of the drug syndicate.
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Violence Against Women and their Children
This book transcends the boundaries of a traditional legal text. It is a compass for practitioners navigating the intricate legal framework surrounding the law on Anti-Violence against Women and their Children. Through careful analysis and insightful commentary, Professor Tagupa demystifies the nuances of legislation, offering clarity to those who seek to enforce and uphold the rights of women and children.
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Treatise on Sexual Harassment
This book will thus provide the stakeholders information about the concept of sexual harassment under Republic Act No. 7877 and Republic Act No. 11313, the three-fold liabilities of the offender, and the duties and obligations of the different players tasked to do something to end sexual harassment.
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Defining Legal Insanity
One of the causes which will overthrow the presumption of voluntariness and of intelligence of a person who stands charged with a crime is insanity. Nonetheless, such defense is solely hinged on the Revised Penal Code that neither describes nor explains the concept.
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Child in Conflict with the Law
The Book Child in Conflict of Law by Judge May Hazel M. Tagupa is perhaps among the very few on the subject on juvenile justice.
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Compendium of Special Penal Laws Vol. III
This book, Compendium of Special Laws, is a three-volume compilation of special penal laws (SPLs) and laws with penal provision (LPPs). The first volume, published in 2019, is a collation of special penal laws (SPLs) which are included in the criminal law syllabus for the bar examinations. Obviously, the book was launched as a handy reference for law students and bar reviewees preparing to take the bar examinations.
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Compendium of Special Penal Laws Vol. II
This book, Compendium of Special Laws, is a three-volume compilation of special penal laws (SPLs) and laws with penal provision (LPPs). The first volume, published in 2019, is a collation of special penal laws (SPLs) which are included in the criminal law syllabus for the bar examinations. Obviously, the book was launched as a handy reference for law students and bar reviewees preparing to take the bar examinations.
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Compendium of Special Penal Laws
The subject Special Penal Laws (SPLs) was not part of the old law curriculum. Under the old curriculum, the study of criminal law was only limited to Revised Penal Code, that is, Criminal Law 1 deals with Book 1 of the Code while Criminal Law 2 touches on specific felonies of Book 2.
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Special Penal Laws: Concepts and Jurisprudence
Two years after its maiden publication, the author felt the need to revise the book. The Congress, in a span of the same period, has enacted several special penal laws which are relevant in the study of law such as: Anti-Safe Spaces Act (RA No. 11313), Motorcycle Crime Prevention Act of 2019 (RA No. 11235), and Anti-Terrorism Law (RA No. 11479) – the latter law expressly repealing RA No. 9372 (Human Security Law), which was prominently featured in the 2019 edition of this book.
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Governing Rules for Pardon, Parole, Probation and Criminal Code 2023
Pardons are sometimes seen as a mechanism for combating corruption, allowing a particular authority to circumvent a flawed judicial process to free someone that is seen as wrongly convicted. Pardons can also be a source of controversy. In extreme cases, some pardons may be seen as acts of corruption by officials in the form of granting effective immunity as political favors.
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Women’s Rights: National and International Perspective
Women’s rights were protected already by the early Medieval Christian Church: one of the first formal legal provisions for the right of wives was promulgated by council of Adge in 506, which in Canon XVI stipulated that if a young married man wished to be ordained, he required the consent of his wife.
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Domestic Violence In The Philippines
Domestic violence is among the most underreported crimes worldwide for both men and women. In addition, due to social stigmas regarding male victimization, men who are victims of domestic violence face an increased likelihood of being overlooked by healthcare providers.
Domestic violence often occurs when the abuser believes that they are entitled to it, or that it is acceptable, justified, or unlikely to be reported.