The Role of the Academe in the CJS

Educational Conference-Workshop on the Five Pillars of the Criminal Justice System, Nov. 16-18, 2011, PNP Multi Purpose Hall, Camp Crame, Quezon City

Harry C. Lorenzo, Jr., MNSA, PhD

We are all products of schools

Behavior
Views and beliefs Knowledge

Skills
Biases

Functions of Education
The primary function of education, from

societys perspective, is the transmission of the cultural heritage: the accumulated knowledge, values, beliefs, and customs of the society. The function of education from the individuals perspective is to acquire the necessary skills and knowledge to become self-sufficient as well as able to participate effectively in society.
-- Roberta M. Berns, Child, Family, School, Community

The School as Laboratory

Preparation for life (i.e., seeing the future, acquiring

knowledge and skills, etc.). NOTE: Positive transfer value of learning Application (i.e., the ability to utilize knowledge and skills in the real world) NOTE: Learning must be relevant. You do not employ maltreatment or torture, for example, during training and expect officers and gentlemen at the end of the line. Development of character and proper attitude (i.e., values, beliefs, etc.). Mans character is his fate. -Heraclitus

The Importance of Core Values

Core values are unifying principles.
Core values are your distinguishing

marks. While your vision provides you with direction, core values are the great force that will take you there. Examples: Courage, Integrity, Loyalty; Honor, Justice, Service.

Developing a Critical Mind

Why are you doing what you are doing?
It is not what you know, but what you do

not know that really matters. Crime is only the tip of the iceberg. Adopt discontinued thinking and make a difference. The system has no mind of its own.

The System has no mind of its own.

You must connect dots.

Perception Is Reality
We do not see the world with a pristine

eye. The world that we see is a processed one. We must try to see the world as others see it to understand why they are behaving differently.

OBJECT

SENSES
PROCESSOR (BRAIN)

IMAGE

APATHETIC BEHAVIOR

TERMINAL BEHAVIOR
DISTRACTED BEHAVIOR

REACTION/ RESPONSE

The Brain Reacts to an Image

Source: Harry C. Lorenzo, Jr., MNSA, PhD October 13, 2011

Beautiful People

Ugly Animals

Preventing Crime: The Home and the Spiritual Factor

Of all the factors we have found as contributing

to delinquency, the clearest and most exhaustive evidence concerns the adequacy of parenting. Parents who are incompetent, abusive, or rejecting, parents who fail to maintain adequate supervision over their children, and parents who, indeed, are little more than children themselves, have direct effects on anti-social behavior of their children.
-- John J. Dilulio, Jr. Preventing Crime, Saving Children: Sticking to the Basics, 2006

The Religion Variable

You simply cannot explain variants in

juvenile crime rates without some reference to the religion variable, or the so-called faith factor. Kids who have some attachment to religious institutions do better in terms of staying off drugs, staying out of crime, than other kids who are the same in all other ways we can know, but lack the attachment. -- Michael Cromartie, Kids Who
Kill, 2006

The Role of the Academe in the CJS

Educational Conference-Workshop on the Five Pillars of the Criminal Justice System, Nov. 16-18, 2011, PNP Multi Purpose Hall, Camp Crame, Quezon City

Harry C. Lorenzo, Jr., MNSA, PhD