QUIZ NO.
2 -INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINOLOGY AND
PSYCHOLOGY OF CRIMES
December 2021 CLE
1. Refers to the unpleasant feelings that
results from the blocking of motive
satisfaction. It is a form of stress, which
results in tension. It is the feeling that is
experienced when something interferes with
our hopes, wishes, plans and expectations.
A. Frustration
B. Depression
C. Loneliness
D. Disappointment
2. In Marxian theory, these refer to the class
of people which owns the means of
production.
A. Proletariat -laborers
B. Bourgeoisie
C. Polysemy
D. Patriarchal
3. Those who become victim psychologically
because they become afraid of the effects
of crime by watching television, newspaper
listening to witness testimony.
A. 1st Victim
B. Primary Victim – the victim itself
C. Secondary Victim -relatives/friends
D. Tertiary Victim -not related to victim
4. What is this theory of TRAVIS HIRSCHI
states that members in society from bonds
with other members in society or institution
in society such as parents, pro-social
friends, churches, schools, teachers and
sports team?
a. Cultural Deviance
b. Instrumentalist
c. Social Control
d. Broken Windows Theory
5. He devised “Felicific calculus”
a. Cesare Beccaria
b. Jeremy Bentham
c. Robert King Merton
d. Edwin Sutherland
6. What trend in criminal activities was
studied showing that as one grows older,
there is also a decline in criminal activities?
a. Age-line curve
b. Alzheimer’s Disease
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c. Aging-out phenomenon
d. Age-crime relationship
7. It holds the offenders adheres to
conventional values while drifting into
periods of illegal behavior, in order to drift,
they must overcome moral and legal
values.
a. Neutralization Theory
b. Social Process theory
c. Rational theory
d. Strain theory
8. It is based on the assumptions that
criminal choose to commit crime after
weighing the consequences of their
actions.
A. classical criminology
B. neo-classical criminology
C. positivist criminology
D. all of these
9. This theory maintains that criminal
behavior was thought to be the result of evil
spirits, something of natural force that
controls the individual’s behavior, these
hypothesis will be found in what period of
criminology?
A) Pre – classical -commonly known as
Demonological Theory
B) Classical
C) Neo - classical
D) Demonology -the study of demons or evil
spirits.
10. Ms. Panganiban a criminology student
were unable to enroll in 2nd school
semester due to financial constraint, despite
of the circumstances Ms. Panganiban make
an alternative to make money to send
herself to school but in a very unpleasant
means, she resorted into illegal drug trade
to earn money. What theory best illustrate
the situation?
A) Differential opportunity theory
B) Neutralization theory
C) Social learning theory
D) Strain theory
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11. His key ideas are concentrated on the change in their brains which interferes with
principle of “Survival of the Fittest” as a their ability to distinguish between right or
behavioral science. He advocated the wrong
Somatotyping Theory” a. irrational criminals
A. W Sheldon b. criminaloids
B. R Merton c. born criminals
C. E Sutherland d. insane criminals
D. David Abrahamsen
19. The term “criminology” was derived
12. According to this School of Thought, from the Italian term “criminologia” coined
Children and Lunatics should be exempted by:
from punishment. a. Paul Topinard
A. Classical b. Raffaele Garofalo
B. Positivist c. Enrico Ferri
C. Neo-classical d. Edwin Sutherland
D. Demonological
20. Who is the father of criminology?
13. If you study the primary reasons for a. Edwin Sutherland - Modern
crime commission, then you specifically deal b. Cesar Lombroso
with the application of: c. Cesare Beccaria
A. Criminology d. Raffaelle Garofalo
B. Sociology of law
C. Criminal Etiology 21. This assumes that all human actions are
D. Victimology calculated in accordance with their
likelihood of bringing happiness (pleasure)
or unhappiness (pain):
14. A person who commits crime due to less a. utilitarianism
physical stamina or self-control. b. militarism
A. Criminaloids c. neo-classical
B. Criminal by passion d. post-modernism
C. Insane criminal
D. Born criminal 22. This school of thought in criminology
maintains that knowledge of social
15. Criminal____ the study of milieu in phenomenon should be based on scientific
relation to criminality: approach:
A. Psychiatry a. Neo-classical
B. Psychology b. positivist
C. Physical Anthropology c. classical
D. Epidemiology d. Contemporary
Milieu – aka Environment
23. According to studies, more violent
16. The Italian leader of the positivist school crimes are committed during:
of criminology, who was criticized for his a. the summer months
methodology and his attention to the b. the rainy season
biological characteristics of offenders, was: c. winter time
A. C. Lombroso d. Springtime
B. C. Beccaria.
C. C. Darwin 24. It is the study of criminality in relation
D. C. Goring to the spatial distribution in a community:
a. criminal epidemiology
17. Garofalo traced the roots of criminal b. criminal demography
behavior not to physical features but to their c. criminal ecology
psychological equivalents which he called: d. criminal physical anthropology
a. moral abnormalities
b. moral anomalies 25. It is the entire body of knowledge
c. moral defects regarding crimes, criminals and the efforts
d. moral irregularities of society to prevent and repress them
a. criminal psychology
18. According to Lombroso, this kind of b. criminal sociology
criminals are not criminal from birth; they c. criminalistics
become criminals as a result of some d. Criminology

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26. It is an act or omission punishable by
law.
a. Crime
b. Felony
c. offense
d. infraction of law

27. Science concerned with improving the

quality of offspring
a. criminology
b. eugenics
c. genetics
d. heredity

28. If the population in municipality A is 195,

000 and the crime volume is 2, 540, what is
the crime rate?
a. 1230.6
b. 1465.2
c. 1302.6
d. 1203.5

Formula:
Crime Volume ÷ Population X 100, 0000

Given:
Crime Volume: 2,540
Population: 195,000
Crime rate: ???

2,540 ÷ 195,000 X 100,000 = 1,302.6

29. It involves the measurement of facial

and other body characteristics as indicative
of human personality.
A. Physiology
B. somatotype -body shape & physique type
C. Physiognomy
D. Palmistry

30. The theory which states that

attachment, connection and link to society
will determine whether a person shall
commit a crime or not:
a. social control
b) social disorganization
c) social bond
d) social learning

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