CRI 029 REVIEWER Beccaria’s ideas about criminal justice?

1. What is the primary goal of correctional systems? A) Rehabilitation through labor

A) To punish offenders B) Punishments should be proportionate to the crime
B) To rehabilitate offenders C) Prison conditions should be improved
C) To isolate offenders from society D) Death penalty is necessary for deterrence
D) To provide a form of social control 12. What was the primary goal of the "Silent System"
2. Which of the following best describes "probation" in the implemented in some prisons in the early 19th century?
context of corrections? A) To promote prisoner rehabilitation through group labor
A) A form of incarceration where individuals serve time in B) To punish prisoners by making them work long hours
prison C) To isolate prisoners and promote reflection through
B) The process of investigating the behavior of individuals in silence
prison D) To introduce educational programs in prisons
C) A type of correctional facility for juveniles 13. What was the primary focus of William Penn’s prison
D) A supervision strategy that allows offenders to remain in reforms in Pennsylvania?
the community under conditions set by the court A) Abolition of corporal punishment
3. What is the primary difference between jail and prison? B) Providing educational opportunities for prisoners
C) Using prisons as a place for reflection and penance
A) Jails are used for long term incarceration, while prisons D) Increasing the use of solitary confinement
are used for short term detention 14. What major role did Cesare Beccaria play in criminal
B) Prisons are intended for people awaiting trial, while jails justice reform?
are for convicted individuals A) He introduced the concept of the rehabilitation of
C) Jails typically house individuals awaiting trial or serving offenders
short sentences, while prisons house those serving long B) He advocated for more severe punishments for criminals
sentences C) He challenged the use of torture and the death penalty
D) There is no significant difference between jails and prisons D) He designed new prison architectures for better
4. Which of the following is an example of a community monitoring
based correctional program? 15. Which of the following is true about the prison system
A) Incarceration in a maximum security facility before reforms by figures like John Howard and William Penn?
B) The death penalty
C) The use of home confinement with electronic monitoring A) Prison conditions were often better than the conditions
D) Juvenile detention outside
5. Which of the following best explains the concept of B) Torture and corporal punishment were commonly used
"rehabilitation" in correctional systems? C) Prisons were used for educational purposes
A) Retribution for crimes committed D) Prisons focused on rehabilitating criminals
B) Punishing offenders through harsh penalties 16. Juan was convicted with a final judgment. If you were a
C) Helping offenders reintegrate into society through judge, what written order would you issue to entrust Juan into
treatment and skill building programs prison for serving his sentence?
D) Preventing crimes by enforcing strict surveillance A) Commitment order
6. What role did the "Pennsylvania System" play in the B) Mittimus order
development of corrections? C) Arrest warrant
A) It introduced the concept of public trials D) Search warrant
B) It was the first system to emphasize solitary confinement 17. The Jail Bureau shall be composed of city and
for reform municipal jails, each headed by a city or municipal jail warden.
C) It established community based programs for offenders In district jail, the jail warden has a rank of _____.
D) It created the first federal prison A) Jain Director
7. Which of the following best describes the historical shift B) Senior jail inspector
in the development of correctional systems? C) Chief Jail Inspector
A) The shift from punishment to rehabilitation D) Jail Superintendent
B) The shift from private prisons to government run 18. What service should be utilized to provide medical and
institutions physical examinations of inmates upon confinement and
C) The shift from community based corrections to treatment of sick inmates?
incarceration A) Medical and Health Services
D) The shift from solitary confinement to group therapy B) Work and Education Therapy Services
8. Which historical development in corrections introduced C) Socio Cultural Services
the idea of rehabilitation as a primary goal, rather than purely D) Chaplaincy Services
punishment? 19. What year was the Bureau of Corrections officially
A) The "Penitentiary Movement" established?
B) The "Silent System" A) 1905
C) The "Mark System" B) 1987
D) he "Auburn System" C) 1945
9. Which correctional reform emphasized the idea that D) 2013
prisoners could be rehabilitated through education and 20. Why was the Bureau of Prisons placed under the
vocational training? Department of Justice (DOJ) instead of the Department of Public
A) The Penitentiary Movement Instruction?
B) The Reformatory Movement A) To align prison management with the national education
C) The Restorative Justice Movement system
D) The Supermax Prison System B) To ensure that correctional facilities were more secure and
10. Which reformer established a system that gave punitive
prisoners marks for good behavior, allowing them to earn their C) To strengthen the legal framework for managing and
release? rehabilitating inmates
A) John Howard D) To allow the President to have direct control over
B) William Penn correctional policies
C) Alexander Maconochie 21. What was a significant impact of Republic Act No.
D) Jeremy Bentham 10575, also known as the Bureau of Corrections Act of 2013?
11. Which of the following concepts was central to Cesare
 A) It abolished capital punishment for all inmates B) A prisoner stays in their confinement during a fire.
B) It modernized, professionalized, and restructured the C) A prisoner escapes during a mutiny in which they
Bureau of Corrections participated.
C) It transferred all correctional facilities to local government D) A prisoner escapes during a flood and turns themselves in
units within 24 hours of the President's announcement that the
D) It reduced the sentence duration for all national prisoners calamity has passed.
22. What is the main purpose of Republic Act No. 10575? 30. "According to RA 9346, what is the primary effect of
this law on the imposition of the death penalty in the
A) To increase the number of prisons in the country Philippines? "
B) To modernize, professionalize, and strengthen the Bureau A) It allows the death penalty only for heinous crimes.
of Corrections B) It prohibits the imposition of the death penalty.
C) To transfer the Bureau of Corrections under the Philippine C) It reduces all death penalty sentences to life imprisonment.
National Police
D) To privatize the country's correctional facilities D) It replaces the death penalty with reclusion perpetua or life
23. Under RA 10575, which government department has imprisonment, depending on the nomenclature used in the
direct supervision and control over the Bureau of Corrections? violated law.
31. What is the key characteristic that distinguishes
A) DILG "physical torture" from "mental/psychological torture" under RA
B) DND 9745?
C) DOJ A) Physical torture always involves physical contact, while
D) Office of the President mental/psychological torture does not.
24. RA 10575 mandates the Bureau of Corrections to work B) Physical torture is always more severe than
towards the rehabilitation and reintegration of inmates. What is mental/psychological torture.
one key element of this reintegration process? C) Physical torture causes severe pain, exhaustion, disability,
A) Maintaining a strict lockdown system for all prisoners or dysfunction of the body, while mental/psychological torture
B) Providing only physical labor tasks to prisoners aims to affect or confuse the mind.
C) Offering educational and vocational training to prepare D) Physical torture is only committed by direct perpetrators,
inmates for life after release while mental/psychological torture can be committed by
D) Reducing inmate visitation and family contact superiors issuing orders.
25. Which of the following is NOT a key provision of 32. In the National Headquarters, who appoints the BJMP
Republic Act No. 10575? personnel from Jail Officer I to Jail Officer IV?
A) Modernization of prison facilities to address overcrowding A) Regional director
B) Abolition of the Bureau of Corrections and transfer of all B) Chief of BJMP
inmates to local jails under BJMP C) Secretary of DILG
C) Professionalization of correctional officers with improved D) President
salary and benefits 33. The chief of the Jail Bureau shall serve a tour of duty
D) Strengthened rehabilitation programs for inmates to aid not to exceed_____.
reintegration into society A) Two years
26. Under the Bureau of Corrections organizational B) Four years
structure, what is the role of the Director General? C) Six years
A) Supervises all correctional facilities and ensures the D) Eight years
implementation of safekeeping and rehabilitation programs 34. Juan was entrusting within the jail facility while he was
B) Serves as a liaison between inmates and their families for awaiting trial. How would you classify Juan?
legal concerns A) Prisoner
C) Focuses solely on the financial management of B) Detainee
correctional institutions C) Criminal
D) Approves parole and pardon requests without legal D) Convicted
oversight 35. Tanggol is an inmate committed in BJMP. He engages
27. A convicted felon, sentenced to six years of in making parol as a livelihood program offered by BJMP within
imprisonment, is currently detained at a provincial jail. Upon the facility. Even if he was committed within a jail facility, he
reviewing his case, a legal officer finds an issue regarding his earned money to provide for the needs of his family. Based on
detention. Based on RA 10575, where should this inmate be the statement, what services did the facility utilize for Tanggol?
properly housed?
A) He should remain in the provincial jail since his sentence is A) Medical and Health Services
not more than ten years B) Work and Education Therapy Services
B) He should be placed under house arrest since he has C) Socio Cultural Services
already served half of his sentence D) Chaplaincy Services
C) He should be transferred to a BJMP managed facility 36. What services should be offered within the jail facility
because it handles all inmates nationwide wherein the objectives are the upliftment of religious and moral
D) He should be transferred to a BuCor facility since his values of the inmate?
sentence exceeds three years A) Medical and Health Services
28. What is the primary condition that must be met for an B) Work and Education Therapy Services
offender to be credited with the full time of their preventive C) Socio Cultural Services
imprisonment towards their sentence? D) Chaplaincy Services
A) They must have no prior convictions. 37. The BJMP shall be headed by a Chief who shall be
B) They must agree in writing, with counsel's assistance, to assisted by _____ deputy chief.
abide by the same disciplinary rules as convicted prisoners. A) One (1)
C) They must be charged with a non heinous crime. B) Two (2)
D) They must have already served at least half of their C) Three (3)
potential sentence. D) Four (4)
29. Which of the following scenarios would NOT qualify a 38. Which type of attrition system is being referred to if any
prisoner for Special Time Allowance for Loyalty? uniformed personnel of the BJMP who has not been promoted
A) A prisoner escapes during an earthquake and turns for a continuous period of ten (10) years shall be separated or
themselves in within 48 hours of the President's announcement retired from the service?
that the calamity has passed. A) Attrition by Demotion in Position or Rank
 B) Attrition by Non Promotion C) Knife
C) Attrition by Oher Means D) Tools
D) None of the above 49. In the law that ammended RA 9263 Jail officers on who
39. In the administrative group. What branch is is the one rendered duty for 20 years is still be to required to comply the
who manages personnels, assign personnel and procedures of educational and eligibility requirement.
selection? A) Yes under RA 9263 he must pocess those requirement
A) General Service Banch B) No, in the ammendation of RA 9263 Jail officers will not be
B) mess Service Branch required to comply educational and eligibility requirement.
C) mittimus Computing branch C) True, under RA 9263 he must pocess those requirement
D) Personnel Management Branch D) False, in the ammendation of RA 9263 Jail officers will not
40. Pedro a senior jail superintendent on where he only be required to comply educational and eligibility requirement.
have 1 year to for compulsory retirement from the service. Is is 50. Jeric is a Jail officer that respond to a jail break on a
Pedro can still be appointed as Chief of Jail Bureau? Jail on where he was assigned for duty. The inmates carried
A) No, Because He's remaining year is not good for long term weapons so that they can easily get out of the jail. Due to Jeric's
position courage and gallantry he was able to stop those inmate tried to
B) Yes, Because Sec. 3 of RA 9263 states that only officers escape the prison. Is Jeric elligible for the promotion for the next
that has only 6 months left to be retired cannot be apppointed higher rank?
on the said position. A) Yes, He is eligible because he was on duty
C) No, He need to have schooling to bee appointed on that B) Yes, He is eligible to be promoted to the next rank because
positio he allows inmate to get out from prison
D) Yes, because he has the rank of a senior jail C) Yes, He is eligible for the promotion because Jail officer
superintendent Jeric showed a heroic character to stop the inmates from
41. In order to become a Jail officer 4 in region 6 who escaping from prison.
Appoints to become on the said rank? D) No, He is not eligible to be promoted due to Jeric did not
A) Chief BJMP try to stop the inmates.
B) Regional Director 51. What is that branch of the administration of criminal
C) Sec. DILG justice charged with the responsibility for the custody,
D) CSC supervision and rehabilitation of those who judicially
42. What is the Rank of a Deputy Chief for Operation? found violated criminal law?
A) Chief Jail Inspector a. Corrections c. Institutional
B) Chief Jail Superintendent Corrections
C) Chief Jail Director b. Correctional Administration d. Non institutional
D) JAil Director Corrections
43. If you are the the President and you are going to It is a correctional program in which offenders are admitted
appoint a deputy chief for operation and administration. Who will to an institution.
recommend those qualified officers to youu as president? a. Penology c. Institutional
A) CSC Corrections
B) Chief BJMP b. Correctional Administration d. Non institutional
C) Secretary of DILG Corrections
D) President 52. It refers to the confinement of a person in prison.
44. In this Rehabilitation group this is where inmates can a. Illegal detention c. Imprisonment
practice their religious activities and can give religious services b. Commitment d. Arbitrary
to inmates. detention
A) Priest 53. What is that correctional program which takes place in the
B) Medical Health Services community?
C) Socio Cultural Services a. Penal Management c. Institutional Corrections
D) Chaplaincy Services b. Correctional Administration d. Non institutional
45. Under the attrition system, what will happen to the Corrections
personnel who are dismissed from the BJMP, are below fifty 54.What refers to a network of agencies that functions related to
(50) years of age, and have served in the government for less rehabilitating convicted persons through either institutional
than twenty (20) years? based or community based corrections?
A) Separated from the service a. Penal system c. Correctional
B) Retired from the service. system
C) Promoted to a higher position. b. Criminal justice system d. Both a and c
D) Demoted to a lower position. 55. The following are agencies of the government charged with
46. Which of the following sections under the security correctional responsibility, except:
group within the jail facility receives and distributes and/or a. BJMP c. Bureau of Corrections
serves subpoenas, notices, orders, summons, and other court b. Provincial Jail d. Philippine National Police
processes directed to inmates confined in jail? 1. Which of the following is considered to be the purpose
A) Escort section of confinement of a person to prison:
B) Subpoena section a. To segregate him from the society.
C) Custodian section b. To rehabilitate him so that upon his return to society he
D) Admitting and releasing section shall be a responsible and lawabiding citizen.
47. What law was ammended by R.A. 9592 for a certain c. Both a and b
provisions of the act? d. None of these
A) R.A 9263 2. He is a great contributor to the reform of the criminal
B) R.A 6975 law and correction system of the 18th century and published the
C) R.A. 9165 book “on Crimes and Punishment” in 1764.
D) RA 11131 a. Alexander Maconochie c. Jeremy Bentham
48. There are things that can be allowed in the prison b. John Howard d. Cesare Beccaria
however there is a policy that does not allowed inside the prison 3. The authoritative imposition of something negative or
which is called contraband. Below are the things that is not unpleasant on a person in response to behavior deemed wrong
allowed inside the prison except. by law.
A) Clothes a. Punishment c. Banishment
B) Money b. Retribution d. Penalty
4. Getting back at someone for something they did to hurt a. Justice c. Personal
you. b. Legal d. Certain
a. Punishment c. Retribution 19. What is the primary purpose of imprisonment?
b. Justification d. Penalty a. Rehabilitation and Reformation c. To stand trial
5. The idea that punishment will give the offender a b. Punishment d. Socialization
lesson by showing to others what would happen to them if they 20. The form of conditional release that is granted after a
have committed the heinous crime. prisoner has served a portion of his sentence in a correctional.
a. Protection c. Deterrence a. Conditional pardon c. Probation
b. Lethal injection d. Stoning b. Parole d. Commutation of sentence
6. Giving punishment to a person so to serve as an 21. The putting of offenders in prison for the purpose of
example to others is the theory of protecting the public and at the same time rehabilitating them by
a. Self defense c. Social defense requiring the latter to undergo institutional treatment program is
b. Exemplary d. Equality referred to as:
7. The penalty imposed for offenders must be certain. a. Imprisonment c. Trial
This means that: b. Conviction d. Detention
a. The guilty one must be the one to be punished, no proxy. 22. Mr. B committed a light felony, after 12 hours of
b. No one must escape its effect confinement, Mr. C, a police officer failed to release him from
c. It must be equal for all persons jail. Mr. C could be liable for a crime of:
d. The consequence must be in accordance with law a. Illegal detention c. Obstruction of Justice
8. This pillar/component of our criminal justice system has b. Arbitrary detention d. All of these
been regarded as the weakest pillar due to its failure to eliminate 23. The generic term that includes all government
recidivism and habitual offenders. agencies, facilities, programs, procedures, personnel, and
a. Law enforcement c. Prosecution techniques concerned with the investigation, intake, custody,
b. Court d. Corrections confinement, supervision, or treatment of alleged offenders
9. The task of changing an offender’s attitude so that he refers to:
or she may not commit another crime in the future. a. Corrections c. Penology
a. Retribution c. Deterrence b. Criminal Justice d. Base pillar
b. Incapacitation d. Rehabilitation 24. Aside from protecting the public, imprisonment has for
10. An alternative to incarceration that allows convicted its latest objective, the:
persons to remain at large and under varying degrees of a. Reformation of offenders c. Segregation of offenders
restriction and supervision and certain conditions imposed by b. Deterrence d. Confinement of offenders
the granting court. 25. The entrusting for confinement or an offender to a jail
a. Probation c. Work release by competent court or authority for investigation, trial and or
b. Parole d. Halfway houses service of sentence is referred to as:
11. During the 16th up to the 18th century, a criminal may a. Commitment c. Detention
be sent away from a place carried out by prohibition to come b. Imprisonment d. Recognizance
against a specified territory. This is an ancient form of 26. This theory asserts that punishment has a redemptive
punishment called: purpose of repelling sin advocated by the devil. This theory was
a. Exile c. Transportation at its fullest development during the death of Christ in 30 A.D.
b. Banishment d. Public trial a. Classical theory c. Neo classical theory
12. Retaliation is the earliest remedy for a wrong act to any b. Positivist theory d. Judean Christian theory
one (in the primitive society). The concept follows that the 27. He was the Governor of Norkfolk Island, a penal colony
victim’s family or tribe against the family or tribe of the offender, in the east of Australia and initiated the famous “mark system”.
hence “blood feuds” was accepted in the early primitive a. Zebulon Brockway c. Alexander Maconochie
societies. Retaliation means: b. Sir Walter Crofton d. Domets of France
a. Personal Vengeance c. Tooth for a tooth 28. Under this system, prisoners were allowed to work
b. Eye for an Eye d. All of these inside their cells and they were not allowed to talk. It is also
13. Pedro, a city hall janitor, arrested Juan for some legal known as a “Solitary Confinement”.
ground but he failed to file a complaint against the latter within a. Congregate System c. Auburn System
the prescribed period of filing. What crime did Pedro commit? b. Pennsylvania System d. Elmira
a. Arbitrary detention c. Illegal Detention Reformatory
b. Illegal arrest d. No crime 29. The earliest Roman place of confinement, Rome in 64
committed B.C.
14. The punishment should be provided by the state whose a. Bridewell Workhouse c. Walnut Street
sanction is violated, to afford the society or individual the Jail
opportunity of imposing upon the offender suitable punishment b. Mamertine Prison d. Wall nut jail
as might be enforced. Offenders should be punished because 30. He was famous for founding Pennsylvania and
they deserve it. This is one justification of punishment called: advocated religious freedom. He also fought for the abolition of
a. Atonement c. Incapacitation DEATH penalty as a form of punishment.
b. Deterrence d. Retribution a. William Penn c. Charles
15. The founder of the Classical School of Criminology and Montesquieu
published short treaties, “On Crimes and Punishments” which b. Cesare Beccaria d. Jeremy
contains his reformatory ideas was: Bentham
a. Jeremy Bentham c. Cesare Lombroso 31. He introduced the Irish System and was appointed as
b. Cesare Beccaria d. Enrico Ferri the Director of the Irish Prison System in 1854:
16. “Lex Tallionis” means: a. Captain James Cook c. Zebulon Brockway
b. Sir Walter Crofton d. Dr. S.G. Howe
32. Considered to be the most brutal period for punishing
a. Punishment c. Law of retaliation criminals being the merger of the old and new system.
b. Retribution d. Suffering a. 16th Century c. 18th Century
17. Hanging is for death penalty, maiming is for: b. 17th Century d. 19th Century
a. Social degradation c. Exile 33. Considered to be the forerunner of modern penology:
b. Physical torture d. Slavery a. BJMP c. Elmira
18. A justifcation of penalty which states that nobody can Reformatory
assume the suffering for a crime committed by others. b. Welfareville d. Sing Sing prison
34. She opened Borstal Institution near Rochedi, Kent
England, which was considered as the best reform institutions
for young offenders:
a. Evelyn Ruggles Brise c. Queen Elizabeth
b. Thomas Fowell Burton d. Sir James
Mckintosh
35. The first American Penitentiary converted as a State
Prison.
a. Bridewell Workhouse c. Walnut Street
Jail
b. Mamertine Prison d. Walnut Jail
36. This prisoner is one who is sentenced to a prison term
of six (6) months and one day to three (3) years.
a. Municipal prisoner c. City prisoner
b. Provincial prisoner d. Insular prisoner
37. This is a type of prisoner who is sentenced to a prison
term of one (1) day to three (3) years.
a. Municipal prisoner c. City prisoner
b. Provincial prisoner d. Insular prisoner
38. A security facility for the temporary detention of
persons held for investigation or awaiting preliminary hearing:
usually the period of detention does not exceed forty –eight (48)
hours.
a. Lock up jail c. Workhouse
b. Ordinary jail d. Penal farm
39. Who among the following is the provincial prisoner?
a. A prisoner serving a term below six (6) year
b. A prisoner serving a term of six (6) years and u
c. A prisoner serving a term of six (6) months and one (1) day
to three (3) years
d. A prisoner serving a term of three (3) years and one (1)
day up
40. It exercises supervision and control over provincial
jails.
a. BJMP c. Provincial
Government
b. Bureau of Corrections d. Parole and
Probation Administration
41. What is the Executive Department that supervises and
controls the numerous Correctional Institutions nationwide?
a. Department of Justice
b. Department of the Interior and Local Government
c. Department of Social Welfare and Development
d. Department of National Defense
42. What Bureau under the DILG is responsible for the
supervision and control of Jails?
a. BJMP c. Bureau of
Corrections
b. Provincial Jail d.
City/Municipalities
43. The Head of the Bureau of Corrections is known as –
a. Chief of the Bureau of Corrections
b. Director of the Bureau of Corrections
c. Superintendent of the Bureau of Corrections
d. None of these
44. Warden of Sing Sing Prison in New York
recommended the use of indeterminate sentences in American
prisons.
a. Rutherford B. Hayes c. Zebulon Brockway
b. Gaylord B. Hubbell d. John Howard