REVIEW QUESTIONER FOR INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINOLOGY CRIMINAL

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INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINOLOGY 1-75

1. What is that school of criminology which shifted the emphasis from the free will to causes of
crime?
A. Classical school C. Positivist school
B. Chicago school D. Philippine School of Criminology

2. A body of knowledge that deals with crime as a social phenomenon is _______.

A. Criminology C. Criminal Science
B. Sociology D. Penology

3. The basis of criminal liability is human free will and the purpose of penalty is retribution. This
theory which founded by Becarria is:
A. Classical Theory C. Positivist Theory
B. Social Contract Theory D. Determination Theory

4. Freudian Theory traces behavior as a deviation to the repression of basic drives. A person seeks
release from conflict either by some mental substitute or by overt compensatory behavior, which
may be criminalistic in nature. In this scenario, crime is seen as:
A. Heredity is one of the cause
B. A behavior influenced by environment
C. A deprivation in the human needs
D. An unconscious effort to solve an emotional problem

5. Sutherland explains that criminal behavior is not an invention by the criminal himself but
developed in the process of association with others. This theory presents:
A. That criminal behavior is learned
B. That criminal behavior is instinctive in the person
C. That criminal behavior is hereditary
D. None of the above

6. The personalities who are considered as the Holy three of Criminology are.
A. Lombroso, Garofalo and Ferri C. Taylor Smith and Wesson
B. Gall Smith and Williams D. Vollmer Sheldon and Nikki

7. The body conduced by sedated on the Kaukak Family free, indicated some proof showing.
A. The role of heredity in the development of criminality
B. The role or mental defect in the development of criminality
C. The role of criminosynthesis in the explanation of crime
D. The effect of environment in the development of criminal behavior
8. A branch of criminology that is concerned with the control of crime by studying prison
management and prison reforms is known as ____.
A. Penology C. Criminal Etiology
B. Criminal Demography D. Criminal Sociology
9. Crimes committed by person who usually occupy key positions, maintains prestige and high
social are referred to as _______.
A. Blue collar crimes C. Organized crimes
B. Economic crimes D. White collar crimes

10. The study in Criminology that deals with the relationship between criminality and the
population.
A. Criminal demography C. Victimology
B. Criminal Psychology D. Criminal Epidemiology

11. The branch of criminology that studies the participation of the victim in the commission of a
crime.
A. Victimology C. Criminal psychiatry
B. Criminal Ecology D. Dactyloscopy

12. Which of the following is considered the triad of crime –

A. Desire, opportunity and capability
B. Desire, timing and opportunity
C. Desire, chance and opportunity
D. Desire, intent, and chance

13. A classification of crime as the manner it is committed, wherein the act is done with deliberate
intent –
A. Dolo C. Culpa
B. Act D. Criminal

14. It is classification of crime when the offender acquires something as a consequence of his
criminal act.
A. Possessive crime C. extinctive crime
B. Acquisitive crime D. rational crime

15. The factor identified by Dr. Charles Goring that is more influential as determinant criminal
behavior than environment factors is –
A. Heredity C. temperature
B. Facial features D. mental defects
16. The question as to whether an act is a crime which is dependent on the existing criminal law
within the country it followed therefore that –
A. The causes of crime is hereditary
B. Criminology changes as social condition changes
C. The causes of crime is psychological
D. The cause of crime must be determined from its social needs and standards.

17. A body of knowledge regarding crime as a social phenomenon is

A. Criminology C. Criminal Science
B. Social science D. Penology

18. The following are the three principal division of criminology, except:
A. Criminology sociology C. Sociology of Law
B. Criminal Etiology D. Penology

19. It is an attempt at scientific analysis of the cause of crime

A. Criminal etiology C. sociology of crime
B. Penology D. criminal sociology

20. It is an attempt at scientific analysis of the conditions under which criminal laws develop and
which is seldom included in general books n criminology.
A. Sociology of law C. criminal sociology
B. Penology D. Criminal etiology

21. Concerned with the control of crime by studying prison management and prison reforms.
A. Penology C. Criminal etiology
B. Criminal demography D. Criminal sociology

22. The objectives of criminology are the following, except.

A. Development of the body of general and verified principles and of other types of knowledge
regarding this process of law, crime and the treatment of offender.
B. The knowing will contribute to the development of other social science and through these
social science, it will contribute to efficiency in general social control
C. It is concerned with the immediate application of knowledge to program of social control of
crime
D. No exception

23. The legal definition of crime is an intention set or omission on violation of criminal law,
committed, without deforms or justification and sanctioned by law as a felony or misdemeanor.
This definition assumes.
A. Crime is viewed as an allied concept that becomes behavior when it violates criminal law.
 B. The offender cannot be assumed a criminal until he has been found guilty through court
procedures.
C. It is contended that criminal law is particularly stable and responsible means of adjusting
social control to changing social conditions.
D. All of the above

24. The social definition of crime is, it is an act which the group regards as sufficiently menacing the
fundamental interest in order to justify the formal reaction of restraining the violation. This
definition assumes.
A. Criminal law is seen as part of a larger body of norms of the criminal laws which are shaped
by the characteristics and interest of these groups of population which influences legislation.
B. Criminal is defined more broadly than the legal concept. It is viewed an anti-social behavior
designed to support and include a larger variety and quality of behavior than that which the
criminal law is intended to penalize.
C. The intrinsic (inherent) qualities of behavior are considered to be a major focus of study
rather than violation of the criminal law.
D. All of the above

25. From the legal and social senses, crime has the following attributes:
A. Crime is an act or omission by one who having the capability of distinguishing the right from
wrong, persist in doing what law forbids and avoids doing what the law dictates.
B. Crime is a public offers a committed or omitted in violation of law forbidding or
commanding it.
C. Crime is a social menace which exacts a tremendous toll on the national economy,
debilitates its financial resources, subverts the national security, and threatens the entire
political system.
D. All of the above

26. The first school of criminology built on the concept of free will –
A. Classical school C. American school of criminology
B. Menaghten rule D. Positivist school

27. School of criminology which shifted the emphasis from the free will to causes of crime.
A. Positivist school C. Classical school
B. Chicago school D. Philippine’s theory of crimes

28. The first social criminologist –

A. Adolphe Quitelet C. Charles Goring
B. Charlemagne D. Becarria

29. Father of modern policies science –

A. August Vollmer C. Allan Pinkerton
 B. John Howard D. Sigmund Freud

30. German scientist who was the founder of penal law –

A. Paul J.A. Von Feurback C. Adolf Hitler
B. William Sheldon D. Jeremy Bentham

31. Determines the meaning of insanity

A. McNaghten rule C. Lombroso
B. Alfred Binet D. Becarria

32. Held that commission of crime is a matter of free will, in his Essay, Crime and Punishment –
A. Becarries C. Jeremy Bentham
B. William Sheldon D. John Howard

33. Established the first modern police system in London –

A. Cesare Lombroso C. Sir Robert Pale
B. Rafaelle Garofalo D. William Sheldon

34. Founder of Psycholoanalysis –

A. William Bonger C. Sigmund Freud
B. Adam Smith D. William Sheldon

35. Holy 3 of Criminology, are the following –

A. Lombroso, Garofalo & Ferri C. Taylor, Smith & Williams
B. Gall, Perry & Horge D. Boon, Meravite & Dewey

36. Classical theory is based in free will, rationalism and bedonism, its founder is –
A. Becarria C. Lombroso
B. Howard D. Volimer

37. Modified classical theory by introducing limited responsibility, extenuating circumstances,

premeditation and exempted children and the mentally defective or insane from responsibility –
A. Neoclassical school C. positivist school
B. Criminological approach D. penology

38. Held that the criminal was born as an atavistic individual and not civilized. This school was the
first in study crime and criminal from the objective and scientific approach –
A. Lombroso and his positivist school
B. Freudian and his psychoanalytical approach
C. Becarria and his classical school
D. Non of them

39. Recent theories of criminal behavior have centered on the offender as an –

 A. Individual C. as a criminal
B. Influence D. a and b are true

40. Attempted to prove the relationship between crime and mental deficiency –
A. Psychological test C. psychiatric test
B. Insanity test D. Psychometric test

41. Freudian who dominated psychoanalytical approach by theories such as the following except:
A. August Alchorn C. Kate Fredlander
B. David Abrahamaen D. no exception

42. Environment and social elements are minor factors to crime causation –
A. Community approach C. Sociological approach
B. Psychological approach D. Psychoanalytical approach

43. Considered the father of modern American Criminology –

A. August Vollmer C. Leonard Savitz
B. Paul Walton D. Edwin Hardin Sutherland

44. French Sociologist who founded “among theory.” He used the term to explain normless or the
breakdown of the social order in his treatise, “Suicide” –
A. Emile Durkheim C. John Dewey
B. Redford White D. Robert Duran

45. Development the three classifications of criminals, the born, the insane, and the criminal
passion; sometimes referred to as father of criminology –
A. Jeremy Bentham C. John Howard
B. Andrew Taylor D. Cesare Lombroso

46. The merging of the individual with his group or simply belongingness –
A. Uniformity C. political
B. Alienation D. identification

47. Scientific analysis of the cause of crime –

A. Criminal ecology C. Criminological theory
B. Predictive method D. Criminal etiology

48. Systematic analysis of the conditions under which criminal is developed –

A. Criminal ecology C. criminal etiology
B. Criminology theory D. sociology of law

49. Refers to those activities that seek to eliminate the desire opportunity and the capability of the
people to commit a crime –
 A. Crime prevention C. crime control
B. Criminalistics D. crime elimination

50. The sum of all the means used by the society to discourage and prevent anti-social conduct –
A. Social control C. crime rate
B. Crime prevention D. crime elimination

51. Control of crime by studying prison management and prison refers to –

A. Penology C. ecology
B. Social control D. crime prevention

52. Personal disorganization resulting in discrimination and lawlessness, simply, the disregard of law
–
A. Anomic C. alienation
B. Ecology D. harmony

53. Behavior in violation of criminal law –

A. Criminal behavior C. criminology
B. Criminal demography D. criminal prevention

54. The study of relationship between criminality and the population.

A. Criminal demography C. criminal etiology
B. Criminal ecology D. criminal Epidemiology

55. The study of criminality between mind behavior and crime –

A. Criminal physical anthropology
B. Criminological study
C. Criminological research
D. Crime and criminal study

56. The study of relationship between environment and criminality –

A. Criminal Epidemiology C. Criminal anthropology
B. Criminal Psychology D. Criminal Biology

57. The study of criminality in relation to spatial distribution in community –

A. Criminal ecology C. criminal environment
B. Criminal demography D. none of them

58. The study of different formulas to determine the future character of a potential criminal –
A. Predictive method C. criminological research
B. Criminal research D. none of them

59. The triad of crime is –

 A. Desire, opportunity and capability
B. Desire, chance and opportunity
C. Desire, timing and opportunity
D. Desire, intent and chance

60. Crime increase in urban areas are attribute to –

A. Lack of sound prevention planning
B. Interplay of accelerated social changes which are the aftermath of development
C. Apathy of the community towards involvement in the campaign against criminally
D. All of the above

61. The board ways of social response to the crime problem –

A. Prevention per se C. control
B. Rehabilitation D. all of them

62. Approaches to the goal of reducing crime –

A. Crime suppression of reaction measures undertaken after the commission
B. Crime prevention of reaction measures undertaken before the commission
C. Crime investigation after the commission of crime
D. a and b are correct

63. Anticipation, recognition, and appraisal of a crime risk and the initiation of positive action to
remove or reduce that risk –
A. Crime control C. crime reduction
B. Crime elimination D. crime prevention

64. Traditional approach in crime control which deals with the apprehension, investigation, trial,
correction and/or punishment of the criminal –
A. Crime suppression C. crime elimination
B. Crime control D. crime reduction

65. Modern approach through the reduction of criminal opportunity of both the existence of crime
and the criminal using social and situational, prevention, measured by the community at large
and by all sectors of society.
A. Crime prevention C. crime suppression
B. Crime control D. crime elimination

66. The levels of crime prevention –

A. Primary level – identification of factors in the environment which contribute to criminally
deviant behavior.
B. Secondary level – identification of individual or group of persons with criminally deviant
behavior
 C. Tertiary level – formulation of rehabilitation measures to prevent recidivism
D. All of these

67. The agency of the government tasked to campaign to prevent is a crime of –

A. Dolo C. culpa
B. Imprudence D. omission

68. When the act is done with deliberate intent –

A. Dolo or deceit C. culpa or fault
B. Criminal per se D. omission

69. When the act defined as crime is committed through fault –

A. Culpa C. dolo
B. Criminal per se D. act
70. When a person does something which the law prohibits him to do –
A. Crime C. prohibition
B. Reprimand D. act

71. These committed with intention and offender is in full possession of his mental faculties –
A. Rational crime C. mala in se
B. Felony D. mala prohibita

72. When the act is wrongful because of its nature, universally condemned and seriously affects the
society
A. Mala in se C. mala prohibita
B. Crime D. felony

73. When the act is considered crime merely because this law makes it prohibited –
A. Mala prohibita C. mala in se
B. Malam calsum D. dura lex sed lex

74. When the offender acquires something as a consequences of his criminal act –
A. Acquisitive crime C. extinctive crime
B. Possessive crime D. rational crime

75. Crime committed by persons of respectability and of the upper class of society in the course of
their occupational activities –
A. White collar crime
B. Black collar crime
C. Blue collar crime
D. No-color crime

1. A 11.A 21.A 31.A 41.D 51.A 61.D 71.A 81. 91.

2. A 12.A 22.D 32.A 42.D 52.A 62.D 72.A 82. 92.
3.A 13.A 23.D 33.C 43.A 53.A 63.D 73.A 83. 93.
4.D 14.B 24.D 34.C 44.A 54.A 64.A 74.A 84. 94.
5.A 15.A 25.C 35.A 45.D 55.A 65.A 75.A 85. 95.
6.A 16.D 26.A 36.A 46.D 56.A 66.D 76. 86. 96.
7.A 17.A 27.A 37.A 47.D 57.A 67.D 77. 87. 97.
8.A 18.A 28.A 38.A 48.D 58.A 68.A 78. 88. 98.
9.D 19.A 29.A 39.D 49.A 59.A 69.A 79. 89. 99.
10.A 20.A 30.A 40.D 50.A 60.D 70.A 80. 90. 100.