INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINOLOGY 8.

Crimes are committed either by Dolo or

Test Questions Deceit or by _____________.
A. Culpa
1. The term Criminology was originally B. Fault
derived from what word? C. Negligence
A. French D. Imprudence
B. Italian E. All of these
C. Criminologia
D. Criminologie 9. The following are the elements of Dolo or
Deceit, EXCEPT:
2. It is the scientific study of crime and the A. Intelligence
effort of the society to prevent and B. Intent
repressed them? C. Freedom
A. Crime D. Negligence
B. Victimology
C. Criminology 10. Pedro Penduco, a victim of robbery, was
D. Criminal Justice able to identify his assailant, a neighbor,
before he dies on the way to the hospital
3. The study of Criminology involves the where he was declared dead on arrival.
use of knowledge and concept of other This crime is called:
sciences and field of study which makes A. Complex crime
the study of criminology: B. Simple crime
A. Dynamic C. Instant crime
B. Nationalistic D. Situational crime
C. Social science
D. An applied science 11. Ms. Mikee is a skilled woman in making
deception through verbal
4. Criminal _________ refers to the study of communication. She had committed
the relationship between criminality and Estafa to several persons through illegal
the inhabitants of a certain locality: recruitment. What crime according to
A. Ecology result did she committed?
B. Demography A. Acquisitive crime
C. Epidemiology B. Extinctive crime
D. Physical Anthropology C. Instant crime
D. Situational crime
5. It is the study of human society, its
origin, structure, functions and direction: 12. It refers to the study of the role of the
A. Sociology victim in the commission of a crime:
B. Criminology A. Criminal victim
C. Psychology B. Criminal Entomology
D. Anthropology C. Criminal Psychiatry
D. Victimology
6. It deals primarily with the study of crime
commission: 13. It is the scientific study of human
A. Criminology behavior or man’s external manifestation
B. Criminal Etiology in relation to criminality:
C. Victimology A. Criminal Epidemiology
D. Criminal Sociology B. Criminal Psychology
C. Criminal Psychiatry
7. An act or omission in violation of the D. Physical Anthropology
public law commanding or forbidding it:
A. Crime 14. When an offender has performed all the
B. Felony felonious acts but he failed to produce the
C. Offense felony for some reason or another, the
D. Infraction of Law crime is in what stage?
A. Frustrated
B. Attempted
 C. Consummated wrong and fully understands the
D. Impossible consequences of his actions:
A. Intelligence
15. Crimes can also be classified according B. Intent
to the plurality of its result. What crime C. Imprudence
is committed when a single act resulted D. Freedom
into two or more grave or less grave
felonies or when a crime is a necessary 21. Refers to a person who has been found
means to commit the other: guilty by competent court by virtue of
A. Simple crime final verdict:
B. Compound crime A. Felon
C. Complex crime B. Suspect
D. Continuing crime C. Criminal
D. Recidivist
16. Crimes are classified under the RPC
according to their gravity. What crime to 22. One way of classifying criminals is on
which the law attaches the capital the basis of etiology. What kind of
punishment or afflictive penalties: criminal is that whose action arises from
A. Grave felonies the intra-psychic conflict between the
B. Light felonies social and anti-social components of his
C. Less grave felonies personality?
D. Complex felonies A. Acute
B. Neurotic
17. What crimes according to the time or C. Chronic
period of the commission are those which D. Normal
are committed only when the
circumstances or situation is conducive to 23. Criminals an also be classified according
its commission like for instance, to this behavioral system. What are those
committing theft in a crowded place. criminals who have high degree of
A. Seasonal crimes organization that enables them to commit
B. Instant crimes crime without being detected and usually
C. Situational crimes operates in a large scale scheme?
D. Continuing crimes A. Ordinary criminals
B. Situational criminals
18. There are crimes that are committed C. Accidental criminals
within a certain length of time. What D. Organized criminals
crime is committed by a series of acts in a
lengthy space of time? 24. On the basis of criminal activities,
A. Static crime criminals are classified; what type of
B. Instant crime criminal makes the commission of crime
C. Situational crime as a way of living. It serves as their
D. Episoidal crime means of livelihood.
A. Situational criminals
19. Crimes such as theft, shop lifting and B. Accidental criminals
others which are committed to maintain C. Organized criminals
one’s livelihood or as a means for living D. Professional criminals
are what crimes?
A. Rational crimes 25. This is a branch of public law which
B. Irrational crimes defines crime, treats of their nature and
C. Blue collar crimes provides for their punishment:
D. White collar crimes A. Civil Law
B. Political Law
20. It is that element of intentional felony C. Criminal Law
which means that the person who D. Commercial law
committed the felony has the capacity to
distinguish between what is right and
26. It is a characteristic of criminal law B. Solon
which states that criminal law are C. Cesare Becarria
enforceable only within the Philippines: D. Hammurabi
A. Prospectivity
B. Generality 34. Which of the following statements best
C. Territoriality describes the maxim “There is no crime if
D. Uniformity there is no law punishing it”?
A. Dura Lex Sed Lex
27. It is the most essential part of the B. Ignorantia Legis Non Excusat
definition of the Criminal Law: C. Nullum Crimen, Nulla Poena Sine
A. Elements Lege
B. Penalty D. Actus me invito factus non est meus
C. Degree of evidence actus
D. Motive
35. This theory claimed that frustration
28. The Revised Penal Code is the primary caused by unachieved goal can make a
source of our Criminal Law. It is person turn into a life of crime:
otherwise known as: A. Differential Association Theory
A. Act 3815 B. Social Disorganization theory
B. Republic Act 3815 C. Strain Theory
C. Commonwealth Act 3815 D. Theory of Anomie
D. Batas Pambansa
36. According to the principle, the
29. The Revised Penal Code is consisting of punishment should be the same as the
how many books? harm inflicted on the victim. Therefore, a
A. One man who broke the hipbone of another
B. Two during the fight will be punished by
C. Three breaking also his hipbone:
D. Four A. Classical
B. Utilitarianism
30. During the prehistoric times, there was C. Neo-Classical
no formal criminal justice system, and D. Law of Talion
crimes where punished based on:
A. Formal Laws 37. It is the study that deals with the
B. Customs relationship between the skull and
C. Conscience human behavior:
D. The Bible A. Physiognomy
B. Physiology
31. The theory that views that people C. Phrenology
commits crime because the society views D. Craniology
them as a criminal and labels them as
such. 38. This school of thought in Criminology
A. Social Reaction Theory states that although individuals have free
B. Social Learning Theory will, there are other factors that affect
C. Social Structure Theory the exercise of their free will, which cause
D. Strain Theory them to commit crimes:
A. Neo-classical
32. The term Criminology was originally B. Classical
derived from the Italian word: C. Positivist
A. Criminologie D. Utilitarianism
B. Criminologia
C. Crimienologia 39. He said that individuals are like human
D. Criminologiya calculators. Before a person commits a
crime, he first analyzes whether the
33. He is recognized as the first codifier of satisfaction he would gain is greater than
law: the possible negative effect he might
A. Drakon suffer if he gets caught.
 A. Cesare Becarria be studied at the Institute of Anatomy at
B. Cesare Lombroso the University of Turin, Italy. To this, he
C. Edwin Sutherland was named as the Father of Modern and
D. Jeremy Bentham Empirical Criminology:
A. Cesare Becarria
40. He stated that crime is a normal part of B. Cesare Lombroso
society just like birth and death: C. Edwin Sutherland
A. Cesare Becarria D. Jeremy Bentham
B. Cesare Lombroso
C. Emile Durkheim 46. Culture Conflict theory was thorough
D. Jeremy Bentham studied by _______________
wherein he concluded that the main
41. Who is the founder of the Cartographic difference between a criminal and a non-
School of Criminology? criminal is that each is responding to
A. Michael Andre Guerry different sets of conduct norms:
B. Enrico Ferri A. Emile Durkheim
C. Isaac Ray B. Thorsten Sellin
D. Adolphe Quetelet C. Andre Michael Guerry
D. Abraham Maslow
42. He founded Sociology and applied
scientific methods in the study of society, 47. This school of thought in Criminology
which to him, passes through stages states that although individuals have self
divided on the basis of how people try to rule, there are other factors that affect
understand it, leading them to adopt a the exercise of their autonomy, which
rational scientific understanding of the cause them to commit crimes:
world. A. Neoclassical Criminology
A. August Comte B. Classical Criminology
B. Cesare Lombroso C. Positivist Criminology
C. Cesare Becarria D. Hedonism
D. August Aichorn
48. This refers to an individual’s physical
43. In the book “On Crimes and features that resemble those of apes and
Punishment”, what was said to be the are said to be factors as to whether a
most effective means of controlling person will become a criminal or not:
crime? A. Atavistic Stigmata
A. Death penalty B. Ape like features
B. Monetary Fine C. Ape like peculiarities
C. Certainty of punishment D. Physical deviation
D. Life Imprisonment
49. He was the one who introduced the
44. This theory contested the findings of following definition of criminology
Becarria’s Free Will Study, stating that “Criminology is the entire body of
its absence among mentally retardate knowledge regarding crime as a social
persons or those with some psychological phenomenon. It includes within its scope
imbalances and personality disorders or the process of making laws, of breaking
physical disabilities, could likewise lead laws and of reacting towards the
to violation of laws thereby citing said breaking of the laws.”
theory as one of crime causation: A. Rafaelle Garofalo
A. Classical Criminology B. Cesare Becarria
B. Positivist Criminology C. Edwin Sutherland
C. Neoclassical Criminology D. Paul Topinard
D. Conflict Theory
50. It is an act or omission in violation of a
45. Having spent half of his life in the study public law forbidding or commanding it.
of the causes of crime and true to his A. Felony
dedication to his lifetime works, upon his B. Offense
death he willed that his brain and body C. Crime
 D. Infraction 57. Committed by a person belonging to the
upper socio- economic class in the course
51. The study of the relationship between of his occupational activities:
environment and criminality: A. Blue Collar Crime
A. Criminal Epidemiology B. Green Collar Crime
B. Criminal Ecology
C. Professional Crime
C. Criminal Demography
D. Criminal Physical Anthropology D. White Collar Crime

52. Branch of Criminology which attempts at 58. Acts that are considered illegal because
scientific analysis of the condition which they threaten general well- being of
the penal/criminal laws have developed society and challenge its accepted moral
as a process of formal or social control: principles. Examples of which are
A. Criminal Etiology
prostitution, drug use, and the sale of
B. Penology
C. Criminological Research pornographic film:
D. Sociology of Law A. Private Crimes
B. Public Order Crimes
53. Acts that are outlawed because they C. Pornographic Crime
violate basic moral values such as rape, D. Immoral Crimes
murder, assault and robbery:
A. Crime Mala In Se
59. Persons who violated criminal law
B. Crime Mala Prohibita
C. Heinous Crime because at the impulse of the moment, fit
D. Serious Crime of passion or anger:
A. Acute Criminals
54. Acts that are outlawed because they B. Emotional Criminals
clash with current norms and public C. Neurotic Criminals
opinion, such as tax, traffic and drug D. Chronic Criminals
laws:
A. Crime Mala In Se
B. Crime Mala Prohibita 60. Persons whose psychic organization
C. Heinous Crime resembles that of a normal individual
D. Serious Crime except that he identifies himself with
criminal prototype:
55. When the offender has performed all the A. Acute Criminals
acts of execution which will produce the B. Emotional Criminals
felony as a consequence but which C. Neurotic Criminals
nevertheless do not produce it, by reason D. Normal Criminals
of causes independent of the will of the
perpetrator:
61. It is the lowest form of criminal career;
A. Attempted Crime
B. Frustrated Crime they engaged only in conventional crimes
C. Consummated Crime which require limited skill:
D. None of the above A. Organized Criminal
B. Ordinary Criminal
56. One classification of crime which is C. Professional Criminal
committed with intent and the offender is D. Accidental Criminal
in full possession of his sanity:
A. Irrational Crime 62. Those who commit criminal acts as a
B. Rational Crime result of unanticipated circumstance:
C. Sane Crime
A. Organized Criminal
D. Insane Crime
B. Ordinary Criminal
C. Professional Criminal
D. Accidental Criminal

63. Those who continue to commit criminal
acts for such diverse reason due to
deficiency of intelligence and lack of
control:
A. Neurotic Criminals
B. Idiotic Criminals
C. Habitual Criminals
D. Situational Criminals
64. Those who are actually not criminals but
get in trouble with legal authorities
because they commit crimes intermixed
with legitimate economic activities.
A. Neurotic Criminals
B. Idiotic Criminals
C. Habitual Criminals
D. Situational Criminals
65. It is an old Code which is known as the
“Ultimate in Severity”:
A. Code of Drakon
B. Code of Hammurabi
C. Code of Kalantiao
D. Twelve tables of Rome
66. According to Cesare Lombroso, in order
to be called “Born criminal”, there must
be at least ____ atavistic stigmata found
on the persons physical appearance:
A. 7
B. 5
C. 10
D. 8
67. Those who are not criminals by birth;
they become criminals as a result of some
changes in their brains which interfere
with their ability to distinguish between
right and wrong:
A. Criminaloids
B. Insane Criminals
C. Irrational Criminals
D. Neurotic Criminals
68. Those with makeup of an ambiguous
group that includes habitual criminals,
criminals by passion and other diverse
types:
A. Criminaloids
B. Insane Criminals
C. Irrational Criminals
D. Neurotic Criminals
69. Italian physician who founded the school
of human physiognomy, the study of
facial features and their relation to
human behavior:
A. Giambattista Dela Porta
B. Johann Kaspar Lavater
C. Charles Goring
D. Franz Joseph Gall
70. He believed that criminal characteristics
were inherited and recommended that
people with such characteristics should
not be allowed to reproduce.
A. Giambattista Dela Porta
B. Johann Kaspar Lavater
C. Charles Goring
D. Franz Joseph Gall
71. He studied the lives of the members of
the Jukes family and referred to Ada
Margareth Jukes as the Mother of
Criminals:
A. Henry Goddard
B. Richard Dugdale
C. Martin Kalikkak
D. Giambatista Dela Porta
72. This refers to the study of the body build
of a person in relation to his
temperament and personality and the
type of offense he is most prone to
commit:
A. Physiology/Somatotyping
B. Physiognomy
C. Cranioscopy
D. Phrenology
73. He is the first to correlate the body built
and constitution of a person with
characters or temperamental reactions
and mentality:
A. Ernest Kretschmer
B. William Sheldon
C. Albert Bandura
D. Robert Ezra Park
74. A type of physique which have a
relatively large digestive viscera; round
body; short tapering limbs and bones;
and smooth, velvety skin:
A. Mesomorphic
B. Endomorphic
 C. Pyknic B. Electra Complex
D. Ectomorphic C. Latency Stage
D. Phallic Stage
75. A type of physique which have relatively
pre- dominance of skin and its 81. it is an extreme feeling of low morale,
appendages which includes the nervous sadness loneliness, self-pity, despair,
system; it has fragile and delicate bones; rejection, boredom and pessimism:
with droopy shoulders, small face and A. Frustration
sharp nose: B. Depression
A. Mesomorphic C. Disappointment
B. Endomorphic D. Anxiety
C. Pyknic
D. Ectomorphic 82. A false belief that you are greater than
everybody else:
76. He is recognized as the Father of A. Delusion
Psychoanalysis. He believed that man B. Delusion of Persecution
carry with him residue of the most C. Delusion of Grandeur
significant emotional attachments of his D. Delusion of Preference
childhood, which then guide future
interpersonal relationship: 83. A psychological state in which a youth
A. Sigmund Freud face inner turmoil and uncertainty about
B. Abraham Maslow life’s roles:
C. Jeremy Bentham A. Inferiority Complex
D. August Aichorn B. Identity Crisis
C. Schizophrenia
77. A Psycho sexual stage of human D. Paranoia
development in which it usually starts
during the first year of life when the child 84. An acknowledged American psychiatrist
who popularized the concept of “Moral
attains pleasure by sucking and biting:
Insanity” in his book, “A Treatise on the
A. Anal Stage Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity”:
B. Oral Stage A. Isaac Ray
C. Phallic Stage B. August Aichorn
D. Pleasure Stage C. Albert Adler
D. Gabriel Tarde
78. A stage in which the child focuses on the
85. One of his profound contributions to
elimination of bodily wastes during the
contemporary criminology is the concept
second and third years of life: of anomie, the breakdown of social order
A. Anal Stage as a result of loss of standard and values:
B. Oral Stage A. Emile Durkheim
C. Phallic Stage B. Adolphe Quetelet
D. Pleasure Stage C. Enrico Ferri
D. Rafaelle Garofalo
79. It happens during the third year of life
86. He believe that criminals could not be
when child focuses their attention on held morally responsible because they did
their genitals: not chose to commit crimes but was
A. Anal Stage driven to commit them by conditions of
B. Oral Stage their lives:
C. Phallic Stage A. Emile Durkheim
D. Pleasure Stage B. Adolphe Quetelet
C. Enrico Ferri
D. Rafaelle Garofalo
80. A stage of development when male begin
to have sexual feelings for their mother:
A. Oedipus Complex
87. It is a shared standard of behavior which
in turn require certain expectations of
behavior in a given situation:
A. Culture
B. Tradition
C. Social Norms
D. Courtesy
88. Refers to the learning process by which a
person learns and internalizes the ways
of society so that he can function and
become an active part of society:
A. Communication
B. Bonding
C. Friendship
D. Socialization
89. This is considered to be the sensible and
responsible part of an individual’s
personality and is governed by the
“Reality Principle”:
A. Ego
B. Alter ego
C. Super ego
D. I.D.
90. Refers to the system of values and
meanings shared by a group of
individuals including the embodiment of
those values and meanings in material
object:
A. Culture
B. Tradition
C. Social Norms
D. Courtesy
91. A theory that holds that crime is a
function of the conflict between the goals
people have and the means they can use
to legally obtain them. That, if the said
goal is not attained, frustration will
result:
A. Strain Theory
B. Social Disorganization Theory
C. Social Learning Theory
D. Conflict Theory
92. A theory that states that in order to cope
with social isolation and economic
deprivation, members of the lower class
create an independent subculture with its
own set of rules and values:
A. Conflict Theory
B. Strain theory
C. Cultural Deviance Theory
D. Social Bond Theory
93. The concept that conduct norms are
passed down from one generation to the
next so that they become stable within the
boundaries of a culture:
A. Hereditary Transmission
B. Cultural Transmission
C. Culture Generation Transmission
D. Genetic Transmission
94. It is the theory in which it states that
strong self-image insulates a youth from
the pressures and pulls of criminogenic
influences in the environment:
A. Containment Theory
B. Social Learning Theory
C. Differential Association Theory
D. Strain theory
95. Focuses on the conditions within the
urban environment that affect crime
rates. It also links crime rate to
neighborhood ecological characteristics:
A. Social Learning Theory
B. Containment Theory
C. Social Disorganization Theory
D. Urban Conflict Theory
96. He concluded that societal stress, though
damaging, could not alone result in a life
of crime unless, a predisposition existed
that psychologically prepared youth for
antisocial acts:
A. Isaac Ray
B. August Aichorn
C. Albert Adler
D. Gabriel Tarde
97. A person who exhibits behavior traits
characteristics of those encountered
during infantile sexual development:
A. Latent Person
B. Fixated Person
C. Infant like Person
D. None of the above
98. The primitive part of the individual’s
mental make-up present at birth and it is
governed by the “Pleasure Principle”:
A. Ego
B. Alter ego
C. Super ego
D. I.D.
99. One of the natures/characteristics of
Criminology is that it changes as a social
condition changes. It is concomitant with
 the advancement of other sciences that
have been applied to it:
A. It is an applied science
B. It is nationalistic
C. It is dynamic
D. It is a social science

100. Who are the people considered as the

“Holy Three” in the study of
Criminology?
A. Cesare Becarria, Cesare Lombroso
and Jeremy Bentham
B. Cesare Lombroso, Jeremy Bentham
and Enrico Ferri
C. Cesare Lombroso, Enrico Ferri and
Rafaelle Garofalo
D. Cesare Lombroso, Rafaelle Garofalo
and Jeremy Bentham

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1. B 14. A
2. C 15. C
3. D 16. A
4. B 17. C
5. A 18. D
6. B 19. C
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8. E 21. C
9. D 22. B
10. A 23. D
11. A 24. D
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