PRELIM EXAMINATION IN CRIME CAUSATION (CRIM2)

PREPARED BY: Charmaine C. Langcaon

Mendoza, Edrian

I.IDENTIFICATION
Raffaele Garofalo 1.An Italian Law Professor coined the term criminologia.
Paul Topinard 2.French Anthropologist, used the term criminology in French criminologie for the first time
Penology 3The study of the control of crimes and the rehabilitation of offender.
Criminology 4.The scientific analysis of the causes of crimes and the criminal behavior.
5.Refers to the investigation of the nature of criminal law and its administration.
Crime 6.An act committed or omitted in violation of a public law; it can either be an act of
commission or omission.
Exempting 7. The crime is attempted when the offender commences the commission of a felony directly
or over acts, and does not perform all the acts of execution which should produce the felony by reason of
some cause or accident other than this own spontaneous desistance.
Frustrated felony 8. when the offender performs all the acts of execution which would produce the felony
as a consequence but which, nevertheless do not produce it by reason of causes independent of the will
of the perpetrator.
The consummated stage 9. when all the elements necessary for its accomplishment and execution are
present.
Grave Felonies 10. are those to which the law attaches the capital punishment or penalties which in any
of their period are afflictive.
Less Grave Felonies 11. are those which the law punishes with penalties which in their maximum period
are correctional.
Light Felonies 12. are infraction of laws for the commission of which the penalty of arresto menor or a
fine not exceeding 200 pesos or both is provided.
 Inherlenty13. are acts that are inherently evil. Examples are murder, robbery, etc.
Fire Arm 14. are acts which are prohibited only because there are laws forbidding such acts. Examples
are Illegal Possession of firearms, Traffic Violations, etc.
Theory of crime15.What do you called the early theories were formulated by Italian scholars, thus, these theories
are collectively
crime of commision 16.When the act performed is in violation of a law forbidding it
Crime of ommi 17.When the person failed to perform an act that is commanded by law
Crime statistics18.The measure of the level or amount of crimes.
Index crimes 19.Crimes which are sufficiently significant and which occur with sufficient regularity to
be meaningful, such as MURDER, HOMICIDE
Rekless Imprudence 20.Crimes that are not classified as index crimes.
II.ENUMERATION
1.)What are the nature and characteristics of criminology(4)
Exploring the connections between the study of crime and its control and the larger concerns of
the contemporary social sciences
2.)What are the triangle of crime(3)
The Crime Triangle identifies three factors that create a criminal offense. Desire of a criminal to commit
a crime; Target of the criminal’s desire; and the Opportunity for the crime to be committed. You can
break up the Crime Triangle by not giving the criminal the Opportunity. Stay alert and use good
judgment by knowing whom and what is around you at all times. You can avoid becoming an easy
target.
3.)Classification of crime according to the law violated(3)

III. ESSAY

Explain the term THEORY?(15pts)

a supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something, especially one based on general
principles independent of the thing to be explained

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