Based upon nearly twenty years of research and theoretical
analysis of selected rural and urban communities in the
Philippines, this book describes and critiques a variety of
justice-related issues, including terrorism, vigilante activity,
corruption, and juvenile delinquency. These themes provide
distinctive insight into Filipino crime and custom, beginning with
assessment of how local village-level citizenry tend to reject
government intrusion into traditional time-honored styles of
informal social control. Other sections include historically
persistent peacemaking scenarios and how Muslim and Christian
citizens in the southern Philippines have tried to resolve disputes
and crimes with only relative success. Although most of the
narrative results from diaries and field notes were completed while
the author lived in northwest Mindanao, the southernmost island of
the Philippines, comparisons are occasionally made to other regions
of the Philippines and regions abroad.
By drawing upon participant observation and multiple, in-depth
interviews with locals, the study outlines how villages have coped
with life in a terrorist-prone region. The related concern of
vigilante movements is also considered, as well as the growing
tendency toward bribery and extortion, two activities that appear
to have become almost normal features on the cultural landscape. A
consistent theme throughout the book is the avoidance, when at all
possible, of official agencies of control and, at times, the
shunning of the law altogether. Such a mood toward anarchy may, the
author contends, at times be functional and appropriate given
particular cultural traditions.
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