Refresher Course 1

Introduction to Criminology
(Reviewer)

Multiple Choice

1. is the entire body of knowledge regarding crime as a social phenomenon.

a. Criminology
b. Crime
c. Criminologie
d. Criminologist
2. A person who is a graduate of Bachelor of Science in Criminology, who has passed the
examination for criminologist and is registered as such by the Board of Examiners of the PRC.
a. Criminologist
b. Criminologie
c. Criminology
d. Kriminal
3. The term criminology came from the Latin word “crimen” meaning crime and Greek word
“Logos” which means “to study”.
a. True
b. False
c. Maybe
d. None of above
4. In 1885, an Italian Law Professor coined the term Criminologia.
a. Rafael Garofalo
b. Paul Topinard
c. Edwin H. Sutherland
d. George Wilker
5. In 1889, French Anthropologist, used the term criminology in French Criminologie for the first
time.
a. Paul Topinard
b. Rafael Garofalo
c. George Wilker
d. Edwin H. Sutherland
6. The scientific analysis of the causation of crimes and the criminal behavior.
a. Etiology of Crimes
b. Sociology of Law
c. Penology
d. Criminology
7. Refers to the investigation of the nature of criminal law and its administration
a. Sociology of Law
b. Penology
c. Criminology
 d. Etiology of Crimes
8. The study of the control of crimes and the rehabilitation of offender.
a. Penology
b. Criminology
c. Etiology of Crimes
d. Sociology of Law
9. The study of the relationship between criminality and population.
a. criminal demography
b. criminal epidiomology
c. criminal ecology
d. criminal psychology
10. The study of the relationship between environment and criminality
a. criminal epidiomology
b. criminal demography
c. criminal ecology
d. criminal psychiatry
11. The study of criminality in relation to the spatial distribution in a community
a. criminal psychiatry
b. criminal ecology
c. criminal epidiomology
d. criminal demography
12. The study of criminality in relation to physical constitution of men
a. Victimology
b. criminal physical anthropology
c. criminal psychology
d. criminal psychiatry
13. The study of human behavior in relation to criminality
a. criminal psychiatry
b. criminal psychology
c. criminal demography
d. criminal physical anthropology
14. The study of human mind in relation to criminality
a. criminal psychology
b. criminal psychiatry
c. Victimology
d. criminal physical anthropology
15. the study of the role of the victim in the commission of a crime
a. criminal physical anthropology
b. Victimology
c. criminal epidiomology
d. criminal demography
16. Asserts that a person commits wrongful acts due to the fact that he was possessed by demons.
a. Strain Theory
b. Demonological Theory
 c. Classical Theory
d. Imitation Theory
17. Best known for his essay, “On Crimes and Punishment” which presented key ideas on the
abolition of torture as legitimate means of extracting confession.
a. Jeremy Bentham
b. Cesare Beccaria
c. Edwin H. Sutherland
d. George Wilker
18. Famous in sayings “Let the punishment fit the crime”
a. Jeremy Bentham
b. Cesare Beccaria
c. Edwin H. Sutherland
d. George Wilker
19. his contribution to classical school of criminology is the concept of utilitarianism and the felicific
calculus.
a. Cesare Baccaria
b. Jeremy Bentham
c. George Wilker
d. Edwin H. Sutherland
20. is a philosophy which argues that what is right is the one that would cause the greatest good for
the greatest number of people
a. positivism
b. Utilitarianism
c. Nationalism
d. Patriotism
21. This theory modified the doctrine of free will by stating that free will of men may be affected by
other factors and crime is committed due to some compelling reasons that prevail.
a. Demonological Theory
b. Classical Theory
c. Neo Classical Theory
d. Strain Theory
22. Refers to a method of analysis based on the collection of observable scientific facts.
a. Utilitarianism
b. Patriotism
c. Positivism
d. Nationalism
23. was a French philosopher and sociologist and is believed to be the one who reinvented the
French term sociologie.
a. Edwin H. Sutherland
b. Cesare Baccaria
c. August Comte
d. Cesare Lombroso
24. Recognized as the “Father of Modern and Empirical Criminology”.
a. Cesare Baccaria
 b. August Comte
c. Cesare Lombroso
d. Raffaelle Garofalo
25. Individuals with at least five (5) atavistic stigmata.
a. Insane Criminals
b. Criminaloids
c. Born Criminals
d. Habitual Criminals
26. Those who became criminals because of some brain defect which affected their ability to
understand and differentiate what is right from what is wrong.
a. Habitual Criminals
b. Born Criminals
c. Insane Criminals
d. Criminaloids
27. Those with makeup of an ambiguous group that includes habitual criminals, criminals by passion
and other diverse types.
a. Born Criminals
b. Insane Criminals
c. Criminaloids
d. Habitual Criminals
28. He focused his study on the influences of psychological factors and sociological factors such as
economics, on crimes.
a. Raffaelle Garofallo
b. Cesare Lombroso
c. Enricco Ferri
d. August Comte
29. He treated the roots of the criminals’ behavior not to physical features but to their psychology
equivalent, which he referred to as moral anomalies.
a. Cesare Lombroso
b. Enricco Ferri
c. Raffaelle Garofallo
d. August Comte
30. This refers to the set of theories that point to physical, physiological and other natural factors as
the causes for the commission of crimes of certain individuals.
a. Demonological Theory
b. Neo classical Theory
c. Biological Theory
d. Classical Theory
31. The study of facial features and their relation to human behavior.
a. criminal psychiatry
b. criminal psychology
c. criminal demography
d. Physiognomy
32. According to him criminal behavior may be predicted based on facial features of the person.
 a. Johann Kaspar Lavater
b. Franz Joseph Gall
c. Johann Kaspar Spurzheim
d. Giambiatista dela Porta
33. He believed that a person’s character is revealed through his facial characteristics.
a. Franz Joseph Gall
b. Johann Kaspar Spurzheim
c. Ernst Kretschmer
d. Johann Kaspar Lavater
34. The study of the external formation of the skull in relation to the person’s personality and
tendencies toward criminal behavior.
a. Phrenology
b. Craniology
c. Cranioscopy
d. All of the above
35. He developed cranioscopy
a. Ernst Kretschmer
b. Johann Kaspar Lavater
c. Johann Kaspar Spurzheim
d. Franz Joseph Gall
36. He was the man most responsible for popularizing and spreading phrenology to a wide
audience.
a. William Herbert Sheldon
b. Ernst Kretschmer
c. Giambiatista dela Porta
d. Johann Kaspar Spurzheim
37. Refers to the study of body built of a person in relation to his temperament and personality and
the type of offense he is most prone to commit.
a. Physiognomy
b. Phrenology, Craniology or Cranioscopy
c. Craniology
d. Physiology or Somatotype
38. formulated his own body types: asthenic, athletic, pyknik and dysplastic.
a. Giambiatista dela Porta
b. William Herbert Sheldon
c. Franz Joseph Gall
d. Ernst Kretschmer
39. his body types include: ectomorph, mesomorph and endomorph.
a. Johann Kaspar Spurzheim
b. Johann Kaspar Lavater
c. Ernst Kretschmer
d. William Herbert Sheldon

40. Conducted a study of the Jukes family by researching their family tree as far back 200 years. He
discovered that most of the ascendants of the Jukes were criminals.
 a. Charles Goring
b. Henry Goddard
c. William Herbert Sheldon
d. Richard Louis Dugdale

41. He traced the descendants of the Martin Kallikak from each of his two wives and found a distinct
difference in terms of quality of lives of descendants. He coined the term “moron”.

a. Henry Goddard
b. Charles Goring
c. Ernst Kretschmer
d. Richard Louis Dugdale

42. He believed that criminal traits can be passed from parents to offspring through the genes.

a. Charles Goring
b. Richard Louis Dugdale
c. Henry Goddard
d. ALFRED BINET

43. A French psychologist who developed the first IQ test.

a. ALFRED BINET
b. Charles Goring
c. Henry Goddard
d. Ernst Kretschmer

44. Refers to the theories that attribute criminal behavior of individuals to psychological factors, such as
emotion and mental problems.

a. PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORIES
b. DEMONOLOGICAL THEORIES
c. NEO CLASSICAL THEORIES
d. CLASSICAL THEORIES

45. According to him, criminality is caused by the imbalance of the three (3) components of personality:
the id, the ego, and the superego.

a. Sigmund Freud
b. ALFRED BINET
c. Charles Goring
d. Henry Goddard

46. Refer to things, places and people with whom we come in contact with and which play a part in
determining our actions and conduct. These causes may bring about the development of criminal
behavior.

a. SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES
b. PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORIES
c. NEO CLASSICAL THEORIES
 d. DEMONOLOGICAL THEORIES

47. He stated that crime is a normal part of the society just like birth and death.

a. Emile Durkheim
b. Gabriel Tarde
c. Andre Michael Guerry
d. Adolphe Quetelet

48. Introduced the theory of imitation which proposes the process by which people become criminals.

a. Gabriel Tarde
b. Emile Durkheim
c. Andre Michael Guerry
d. Adolphe Quetelet

49. Founder of cartographic school of criminology.

a. Adolphe Quetelet and Andre Michael Guerry

b. Cesare Baccaria
c. Cesare Lombroso
d. Gabriel Tarde

50. Refers not only to the physical features of the communities but also to the way society is organized.

a. SOCIAL STRUCTURE THEORIES

b. PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORIES
c. SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES
d. DEMONOLOGICAL THEORIES