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Test Questions in Intro To Criminology
Test Questions in Intro To Criminology
Test Questions in Intro To Criminology
A. Penology
B. Criminology
C. Sociology
D. Psychology
2. The study of criminology involves the study of many disciplines in the collection of
knowledge about criminal action, thereby it is:
A. Scientific
B. Multidisciplinary
C. Psychiatric
D. Economics
3. It is a subfield in the study of criminology which focused on the group of people and
society as a whole and the examination of their relationship to crimes.
A. Sociology
B. Demography
C. Anthropology
D. Psychology
4. It refers to the study of human populations and group variables and its relationship
to crime.
A. Demography
B. Socioeconomic
C. Anthropology
D. Census
5. It refers to the science of behaviour and mental processes of the criminal; how it is
acquired, evoked, maintained, and modified.
B. Psychological criminology
C. Criminal Psychology
7. It refers to the science that deals with the study of crime through forensic sciences,
or the study of criminal behaviour in terms of the scientific analysis of the causes of
crime.
A. Psychiatry
B. Psychiatric criminology
C. Criminal Psychiatry
8. It is a scope of the study of criminology which refers to the scientific analysis of the
causes of crime.
A. Aetiology of law
B. Criminal aetiology
C. Criminalistics
9. A scope of the study of criminology which refers to the study of the punishment and
treatment of criminals.
A. Corrections
B. Victimology
C. Criminalistics
A. True
B. False
C. Maybe
D. Not sure
11.In its legal sense, crime is defines as:
B. The unacceptable acts in violation to the rules and regulations of the society;
A. Offense
B. Felony
C. Delinquency or misdemeanour
13.It refers to an act or omission punishable by special laws such as a Republic Act,
Presidential Decree, Executive Order, and Memorandum Circular.
A. Offense
B. Felony
C. Misdemeanour
D. Delinquency
14.It refers to an act or omission punishable by the Revised Penal Code, the criminal
law in the Philippines.
A. Felony
B. Offense
C. Misdemeanour
D. Delinquency
15.It refers to acts that are in violation of simple rules and regulations usually referring
to acts committed by minor offenders.
A. Offense
B. Delinquency
C. Offense
D. Felony
A. Acquisitive
B. Seasonal
C. Situational
D. Episodic
A. Acquisitive
B. Episodic
C. Seasonal
D. Situational
18.This refers to crimes committed with intent and the offender is in full possession of
his mental faculties.
A. Rational
B. Logical
C. Reasonable
D. Available
A. White collar
B. Syndicated
C. Organized
D. Blue collar
A. Career crimes
B. Service crimes
C. Crimes by passion
D. Underworld crimes
21.Rebellion is an example of a crime:
B. Against Honour
C. Against Persons
D. Against Chastity
A. Against Chastity
C. Against Persons
D. Against Honour
27.A person who is engaged in criminal activities with a high degree of skill.
A. Professional criminal
B. Career criminal
C. Organized criminal
28.They are criminals who are normal in behaviour but defective in their socialization
process or development.
A. Active criminals
B. Passive-inadequate criminals
C. Socialized criminals
D. Juvenile delinquents
A. Habitual criminal
B. Delinquent
C. Recidivist
D. Escapee
30.It is the study of victims and their contributory role, if any, in crime causation.
A. Victimology
B. Epidemology
C. Demography
D. Demonology
31.An approach to the study of crime that deals mainly in the biological explanation of
crimes particularly on the form of abnormalities that exist in the individual criminal
before, during and after the commission of the crime.
A. Subjective approach
B. Objective approach
C. Cartographic School
D. Anthropological approach
32.An objective approach concerned with the biotic groupings of men resulting to
migration, co petition, social dissemination and social conflict.
A. Ecological approach
B. Economic approach
C. Geographical approach
D. Socio-cultural approach
33.The School of Thought advocated by Cesare Beccaria together with Jeremy Bentham
who proposed “Utilitarian Hedonism”.
A. Classical
B. Neo-Classical
C. Positivist
D. Chicago School
34.The School of Thought which argued that situations and circumstances that made it
impossible to exercise free will are reasons to exempt the accused from convictions.
A. Neo-Classical
B. Classical
C. Positivist
D. Chicago School
35.The School of Thought which maintains that crime, as a social and moral
phenomenon, cannot be treated and checked by the imposition of punishment but
rather rehabilitation or the enforcement of individual measures.
A. Positivist School
B. Classical School
C. Neo-Classical School
D. Chicago School
37.The Italian leader of the Positivist School and the “Father of Modern Criminology.”
A. Cesare Lombroso
B. Raffaele Garofalo
C. Cesare Beccaria
D. Jeremy Bentham
A. Born criminals
B. Criminoloid
C. Insane criminals
D. Delinquent
39.One of the best known associate of Lombroso whose greatest contribution was his
attack on the Classical doctrine of Freewill.
A. Enrico Ferri
B. Cesare Beccaria
C. Jeremy Bentham
D. Raffaelle Garofalo
40.A follower of Lombroso who rejected the doctrine of Freewill and supported the
position that the only way to understand crime was to study it by scientific method.
A. Raffaele Garofalo
B. Enrico Ferri
C. Cesare Beccaria
D. Jeremy Benntham
41.He advocated the Theory of Anomie and focused on the sociological point of the
Positivist School which explains that the absence of norms in a society provides a
setting conducive to crimes and other antisocial acts.
D. Ernest Kretschmer
42.He advocated the Theory of Human Ecology which studies the interrelationship of
people and their environment.
C. Sigmund Freud
D. Ernest Kretschmer
43.The idea of somatotyping was originated from his work which distinguished three
principal types of physique.
A. Ernest Kretschmer
C. Sigmund Freud
44.He became popular of his own Somatotyping Theory whose key ideas are
concentrated on the principle of “Survival of the Fittest,” as a behavioural science.
He combined the biological and psychological explanation to understand deviant
behaviours.
A. William Sheldon
B. Ernest Kretschmer
C. Edwin Sutherland
D. Sigmund Freud
45.He has been referred to as the most important criminologist of the 20th century and
considered as the Dean of Modern Criminology. He said that crime is learned and
not inherited.
A. Edwin Sutherland
B. William Sheldon
C. Sigmund Freud
D. Cesare Lombroso
46.A theory which maintain that the society is composed of different groups or
organizations having criminalistic and anti-criminalistic traditions and that the
criminal behaviour is learned through the process of communication which includes
technique of committing the crime, motive and attitude.
D. Containment Theory
47.A theory which assumes that for every individual there exist a containing external
structure and a protective internal structure which provide defence, protection or
insulation against crime or delinquency.
A. Containment Theory
48.They are the proponents of the Social Class Conflict and Capitalism Theory who
claimed that the ruling class in a capitalist society is responsible for the creation of
criminal law and their sociological basis in the interpretation and enforcement of the
law.
49.He is the premier sociologist of the modern days who advocated the “Strain Theory,”
a theory which maintains that the failure of man to achieve a higher status of life
caused them to commit crimes in order for their goal or status to be attained.
A. Robert Merton
B. Albert Cohen
C. Gresham Sykes
D. William Sheldon
50.He advocated the Sub-Culture Theory of Delinquency which claims that the lower
class cannot socialize effectively in what is considered appropriate middle class
behaviour. Thus the lower class gathered together, share their common problem,
forming a subculture that rejects middle class values.
A. Albert Cohen
B. Robert Merton
C. Greham Sykes
D. William Sheldon
51.He advocated the Neutralization Theory which maintains that an individual will obey
or disobey societal rules depending upon his or her ability to rationalize whether he
is protected from hurt or destruction.
A. Greham Sykes
B. Albert Cohen
C. Robert Merton
D. William Sheldon
52.Lloyd Ohlin advocated this theory that explained that there is differential opportunity
or access to success in goals by both legitimate and illegitimate means depending
on the specific location of the individual within the social structure.
C. Labelling Theory
D. Neutralization Theory
53.A theory that explains about social reaction to behaviour and maintains that the
original cause of crime cannot be known. No behaviour is intrinsically criminal but
behaviour becomes criminal if it is labelled as such.
A. Labelling Theory
D. Neutralization Theory
54.In the Theory of Evolution, he claimed that humans like other animals, are parasite,
having an animalistic behaviour that is dependent on other animals for survival.
A. Charles Darwin
B. Charles Goring
C. Ernest Hooton
D. Adolphe Quetelet
55.He is a medical officer in prison in England who contradicted the idea of Cesare
Lombroso that criminality can be seen through features alone.
A. Charles Goring
B. Charles Darwin
C. Ernest Hooton
D. Edwin Sutherland
56.An anthropologist who found out that “Tall, thin men tend to commit forgery and
fraud; undersized men are thieves ad burglars; short, heavy person commit assault,
rape, and other sex crimes; whereas mediocre physique flounder around among
other crimes.
A. Ernest Hooton
B. Edwin Sutherland
C. Lloyd Ohlin
D. Charles Goring
57.A Belgian statistician who pioneered Cartography and The Cartographical School of
Criminology and discovered that crimes against persons, basing on his research,
increased during summer and against property tends to increase during winter.
A. Adolphe Quetelet
B. Ernest Hooton
C. Lloyd Ohlin
D. Charles Goring
A. Ordinary criminal
B. Acute criminal
C. Chronic criminal
D. Criminals of passion
59.The most common legal grounds for termination of parental rights also a form of
child abuse in most states is:
A. Abandonment
B. Abuse
C. Maltreatment
D. Discrimination
60.It is a phase of delinquency proceeding similar to sentencing phase of adult trial. The
judge must consider alternative, innovative, and individualized treatment rather
than imposing standard sentences.
A. Disposition
B. Diversion
C. Rehabilitation
D. Alternative
61.An alternative to trial decided upon at intake to refer the child to counselling or
other social services.
A. Diversion
B. Disposition
C. Rehabilitation
D. Alternative
62.It refers to the independence of the child or minor from his or her parents before
reaching the age of majority.
A. Emancipation
B. Independence
C. Separation
D. Stow away
63.A legal doctrine prevention unemancipated children from suing their parents.
D. Unfit Parent
64. A legal doctrine holding parents liable for injuries caused by a child’s negligent
driving or other actions.
D. Unfit Parent
65.A temporary care of children and minor funded by the State and arranged by a child
welfare agency in order to allow receipt lof adequate food, clothing, shelter,
education and medical treatment.
A. Foster care
B. Stepparent
C. Guardianship
D. Ward
66.A phrase which means “For the Proceeding” referring to adults who look after the
welfare of a child and represent their legal interests.
A. Guardian Ad Litem
B. Parens Patriae
C. Guard
D. Ward
67.A court order giving an individual or organization legal authority over a child.
A. Guardianship
B. Guardian Ad Litem
C. Guard
D. Ward
68.A status of being born to unmarried parents. It also limits inheritance rights.
A. Illegitimacy
B. In Loco Parents
C. Guardianship
D. Guardian ad Litem
69.Refers to teachers, administrators and babysitters who are viewed as having some
temporary parental rights and obligations.
A. In Loco Parents
B. Illegitimacy
C. Guardianship
D. Guardian Ad Litem
70.A procedure prior to preliminary hearing in which a group of people talk and decide
whether to handle the case formally or informally.
A. Intake
B. Outreach
C. Counselling
D. All of them
A. Judgment
B. Evaluation
C. Resolution
D. Petition
C. DNA Profiling
D. All of them
73.A parental failure to provide a child with basic necessities when able to do so and
encompasses a variety of forms of abuse that do not require the element of intent.
A. Neglect
B. Abandonment
C. Paternity
D. Maternity
74.A legal doctrine establishing parental role of the state over welfare of its citizens
especially children. A 19th century idea first activated in Prime vs. Massachusetts.
A. Parens Patriae
B. In Loco Parentis
D. Paternity
75.A release of a juvenile delinquent from custodial confinement prior to expiration of
sentence; sometimes called aftercare.
A. Parole
B. Adjudication
C. Disposition
D. Decision
A. Paternity
B. Fraternity
C. Parens Patriae
A. Preventive detention
B. Preventive Suspension
C. Restriction
D. Violation
78.It refers to the emergency, temporary custody by a child welfare agency, police
agency or hospital for reasons of imminent danger to the child.
A. Protective Custody
B. Preventive Detention
C. Restriction
D. Violation
79.A legal doctrine granting custody to the parent whom the child feels the greatest
emotional attachment to:
B. Parens Patriae
C. In Loco Parentis
A. Restitution
B. Civil Damages
C. Civil Indemnity
D. All of them
81.A federal state law that prohibits anyone under age 16 from employment.
A. Rule of Sixteen
C. Child Custody
82.An activity is illegal when engaged in by a minor but not when done by an adult.
This is referred to as:
A. Status Offense
B. Status Quo
C. Delinquency
D. Minor Offense
83.It refers to a spouse of a biological parent who has no legal rights or duties to the
child other than those which have been voluntarily accepted.
A. Stepparent
B. Surrogate Parent
C. Parens Patriae
D. In Loco Parentis
84.A legal doctrine that, unless the mother is unfit, very young children should be
placed in custody with their mother following a divorce.
B. Tender Juicy
C. Unfit Mother
D. Unfit Parent
85.It refers to a temporary or permanent termination of parental rights in the best
interest of the child usually for reasons of abandonment, abuse or neglect including
mental illness, addiction or criminal record.
A. Unfit Parent
B. Unfit Mother
C. Stepparent
D. Surrogate Parent
86.It refers to a parent who provided an egg, sperm or uterus with intent of giving the
child up for adoption to specific parties.
A. Surrogate Parent
B. Unfit Parent
C. Stepparent
D. Unfit Mother
87.The smallest unit of society and one of the most influential environmental factor that
may lead a person to either a law abiding of a criminal.
A. Home
B. Neighbourhood
C. School
D. Church
88.It refers to a broader social group that could influence the behaviour of a person.
A. Neighbourhood
B. School
C. Church
D. Police
89.One of the most powerful and prime mover of the Criminal Justice system and an
institution in the community with the broad goals of maintaining peace and order,
the protection of life and property and the enforcement of laws.
A. Police
B. Barangay Tanod
C. Security Guard
D. Fireman
90.An institution for information dissemination thereby giving the public needed
information to help shape everyday views about crime and its control.
A. Mass Media
B. Daily Bulletin
C. ABS-CBN TV Network
D. All of them
91.It refers to any action or course of conduct that deviates from acts approved by the
majority of people.
A. Delinquency
B. Status Offenses
C. Truancy
D. Vagrancy
92.A term denoting various offences committed by children or youths under the age of
18.
A. Juvenile Crime
B. Youthful Offender
C. Status Offender
D. All of them
A. Juvenile delinquency
B. Criminal Act
C. Mala in se
D. Mala prohibita
94.One who repeatedly commits an act that is against the norms or mores observed by
the society.
A. Delinquent
B. Delinquency
C. Offender
D. Minor
95.Are young people who are regarded as immature or one whose mental as well as
emotional faculties are not fully developed thus making them incapable of taking full
responsibility of their actions.
A. Juvenile delinquent
B. Misdemeanant
C. Felony
D. None of these
96.This period is sometimes known as the beginning of Reasons and Humanism. People
began to see children as flowers which needed nurturing on order to bloom instead
of beatings to stay in line.
A. Age of Enlightenment
B. Evolution
C. Computer Age
D. None of these
97.The Child and Youth Welfare Code of the Philippines which took effect six months
after its approval in December 10, 1974 applies to persons bellow 18 years of age
and referred to as child or minor or youth.
A. PD 603
B. PD 1760
C. PD 1179
D. RA 9344
98.