OUR LADY OF THE PILLAR COLLEGE-SAN MANUEL, INC.

District 3 San Manuel, Isabela

COLLEGE DEPARTMENT

Prelim Examination
JUVENILE DELINQUENCY AND JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM

NAME: ______________________________________ SCORE: _______

I. MULTIPLE CHOICE: Read each question carefully and encircle the letter of the correct
answer. Any form of alteration is considered wrong!
1. Justice attained by punishing or sanctioning the offender.
a. Restorative Justice c. Punitive Justice
b. Retributive Justice d. Poetic Justice
2. A Person who acts illegally and is not old enough to be treated    as an adult under the laws of
the community.
a. Juvenile Delinquency c. Young Criminal
b. Juvenile Delinquent d. Minor Criminal
3. The habitual committing of criminal acts or offenses by a young    person below the age at
which ordinary criminal prosecution    is possible.
a. Juvenile Delinquency c. Children In Conflict With The
Law
b. Juvenile Delinquent d. Child Offender
4. The Age at which the rights and privileges of an adult are    legally granted.
a. Manhood c. Age Of Majority
b. Adolescence d. Adulthood
5. An Action that is prohibited only to and most often applied    to offenses only committed by
minors.
a. Minor Offenses c. Status Offenses
b. City Ordinances d. Misdemeanor
6. A Category of Crime that includes among others crimes,     Robbery, Theft, Carnapping,
Arson, Shoplifting, and Vandalism.
a. Minor Crimes c. Violent Crime
b. Status Offenses d. Property Crimes
7. A Crime in which the offender uses or threatens to use violent     force upon the victim.
a. Status Offenses c. Serious Crimes
b. Violent Crimes d. Major Crimes
8. Any Intentional Unauthorized absence from compulsory     schooling.
a. Truancy c. Kickout
b. Deviancy d. Dropout
9. A Person under the age of 18 years.
a. Child c. Adolescent
b. Teenager d. Adult
10. The Mental Capacity of a child to understand the difference    between what is right or wrong
and the consequences of    his acts.
a. Motive c. Intent
b. Discernment d. Knowledge
11. Defined as any acts against norms, mores of society.
a. Deviancy c. Juvenile
 b. Delinquency d. Status offense
12. It refers to a doctrine that pleasure is the highest goal of man's life.
a. Determinism c. Hedonism
b. Classical d. Positivist
13. It refers to the stage where a child begins with petty larceny between 8 and sometimes during
the 12th year.
a. Emergence c. Explosion
b. Exploration d. Conflagration
14. It is a stage if delinquency when the child may move on to shoplifting and vandalism
between ages 12 to 14.
a. Exploration c. Conflagration
b. Explosion d. Emergence
15. These are delinquent groups trained to do illegal activities like marijuana cultivation.
a. Socialized Delinquency c. Unsocialized Aggression
b. Over-inhibited d. Gang Delinquents
16. It refers to a delinquency caused by rejection and abandonment or no parents to imitate and
become aggressive.
a. Unsocialized aggression c. Socialized Delinquents
b. Socialized Delinquency d. Neurotic Delinquents
17. This refers to a delinquency that begins at early age with stubborn behavior which leads to
defiance and authority avoidance.
a. Covert Pathway c. Exploration
b. Authority-conflict Pathway d. Explosion
18. This refers to a delinquency that escalates to aggressive act beginning with aggression and
leading to physical fighting and then to violence.
a. Authority-conflict pathway c. Covert Pathway
b. Overt Pathway d. Unsocialized Aggression
19. This theory is based on the belief of primitive people that every object and person is guided
by a spirit. And promotes a notion that persons should not be held responsible for their actions
when they do evil things because their body is possessed with evil spirits.
a. Classical Theory c. Italian Theory
b. Demonological Theory d. Critical Theory
20. This theory was consistent with the utilitarian view that people weigh the benefits and costs
of future action before they decide to act.
a. Determinism c. Critical Theory
b. Positivist theory d. Classical Theory
21. What principle of punishment states that wrongdoers should be locked up in jail since while
they are imprisoned in an institution, they cannot commit offenses against other people in the
outside world.
a. Retribution c. Incapacitation
b. Specific Deterrence d. General Deterrence
22. This principle states that, punishment will strike fear in the hearts of wrongdoers, thus
making them less likely to offend others again.
a. General Deterrence c. Incapacitation
b. Specific Deterrence d. Retribution
23. What principle of punishment states that criminals or delinquents should be punished because
they deserve it.
a. Incapacitation c. Retribution
 b. General Deterrence d. Specific Deterrence
24. This principle states that punishment of delinquents and criminal offenders will strike fear
inn the hearts of other people, thus making them less likely to commit acts of delinquency.
a. Retribution c. Incapacitation
b. Specific Deterrence d. General Deterrence
25. This theory promoted the idea of determinism as a way of explaining crime and delinquency.
a. Positive theory c. Classical Theory
b. Demonological theory d. Critical Theory
26. It is defined as  a means that every act has a cause that is waiting to be discovered in the
natural world.
a. Determinism c. Positive theory
b. Hedonism d. Classical Theory
27. This theory blames delinquency on the imbalance of power within the human society.
a. Classical Theory c. Positive Theory
b. Critical Theory d. Demonological Theory
28. This theory claims that criminal behavior is a result of biological of genetic defect in the
individual.
a. Psychological Theory c. Biological Theory
b. Genetic Theory d. Lombrosian Theory
29. This theory suggests that criminals are atavistic beings who look differently and think
differently.
a. Hooton’s Theory c. William Sheldon’s Theory
b. Lombrosian Theory d. Genetic Theory
30. This theory states that crime is the result of the impact of environment upon low-grade
human organisms and that criminals were originally inferior people.
a. General Inferiority Theory c. William Sheldon’s Theory
b. Hooton’s theory d. Genetic theory
31. This theory stated that body type affects a person’s entire personality or temperament.
a. Hooton’s Theory c. Genetic Theory
b. Lombrosian Theory d. William Sheldon’s Theory
32. This theory assumes that crime and delinquency is committed by people who have abnormal
genetic structure or chromosomal abnormalities.
a. Hooton’s Theory c. Sheldon’s Theory
b. Genetic Theory d. Lombrosian Theory
33. This refers to delinquents that participates in a group. They have common or similar
characteristics. They are pro-social. They do what others are doing.
a. Occasional Delinquents c. Gang delinquents
b. Maladjusted delinquents d. Environmental delinquents
34. These delinquents generally commit the most serious infractions, most often sent to a
correctional institution, and most often continuous in a pattern of semi-professional criminal
behavior as adults.
a.. Gang delinquents c. Environmental delinquents
b. Social delinquents d. Maladjusted delinquents
35. This refers to delinquents that are chronic lawbreakers who make breaking of laws a habit
and they cannot avoid or escape from.
a. Psychiatric delinquents c. Occasional delinquents
b. Emotionally maladjusted delinquents d. Maladjusted delinquents
36. This refers to delinquents who are occasional lawbreakers.
 a. Environmental delinquents c. Occasional delinquents
b. Gang delinquents d. Socialized delinquents
37. This refers to delinquents as a result of their association with people from whom they learned
deviant values.
a. Neurotic delinquents c. Psychotic delinquents
b. Socialized delinquents d. Sociopathic delinquents
38. This refers to youths that became delinquents as a result of distortion in their personality and
their ideas and perception of the world around them.
a. Psychotic delinquents c. Neurotic delinquents
b. Sociopathic delinquents d. Socialized delinquents
39. 39. This refers to youth with severe personality disorders have a significantly distorted
perception of the society and people around them.
a. Neurotic delinquents c. sociopathic delinquents
b. Psychotic delinquents d. Socialized delinquents
40. These youths are characterized by an egocentric personality. They have limited or no
compassion to others.
a. Socialized delinquents c. Neurotic delinquents
b. Psychotic delinquents d. Sociopathic delinquents
41. Maltreatment of children was discussed in this particular code, and states that runaway
children who disowned their parents, and sons who cursed their fathers were severely being
punished.
a. Roman Law and Canon Law c. ancient Jewish Law
b. Code of Hammurabi d. Codification of Roman Law.
42. This specific law made distinction between juveniles and adults based on the notion “age of
responsibility”.
a. Roman Law and Canon Law c. Ancient Jewish law
b. Code of Hammurabi d. Codification of Roman Law
43. This law specified conditions under which immaturity was to be considered in imposing
punishment.
a. Codification of Roman Law c. Code of Hammurabi
b. Ancient Jewish Law d. Roman Law and Canon Law
44. This specific law made it clear that children were criminally responsible for violation of law
and were to be dealt with by the same criminal justice system as adults.
a. Anglo Saxon Common Law c. Code of Hammurabi
b. Roman Law and Canon Law d. Codification of roman law
45. This law was influenced by Roman and Canon Law, which emerged in England during the
eleventh and twelfth centuries.
a. Anglo Saxon Common Law
b. Church and canon law
c. Code of Hammurabi
d. Ancient Jewish Law
46. When was the first separate juvenile court established?
a. 1890 c. 1818
b. 1967 d. 1899
47. Who was the first man to attempt and find out the process of beginning of the delinquent
subculture.
a. William Sheldon c. Albert K. Cohen
b. Cesare Lombroso d. Ernest Hooton
48. This juvenile institution was established in 1824 to 1828 which housed the juvenile
offenders.
a. Orphan Asylums c. Bahay Pag-asa
b. House of refuge d. Boys Town
49. What juvenile institution was establish during 1824 to 1828 which housed the abandoned and
orphaned children.
a. Orphan Asylums c. Bahay Pag-asa
b. House of refuge d. Boys town
50. This theory claims that people with low intelligence are easily led into law-breaking
activities by the wiles of more clever people.
a. Psychogene theory c. Genetic theory
b. Hooton’s theory d. Low- IQ theory

II-A. IDENTIFICATION: READ EACH STATEMENT CAREFULLY AND IDENTIFY THE

THEORY RELATIVE TO THE STATEMENTS. ALTERATIONS ARE CONSIDERED WRONG!
______________________ 1. Punishment for white-collar crime, which is committed by
people of high social positions, is much less severe than for blue-collar crime, which is
committed by average working people, sometimes as a way to improve living conditions.
_______________________ 2. 'I didn't actually hurt anyone', 'I was intoxicated”
_______________________ 3. This focuses on how other people's opinions can influence the
way we think about ourselves.  
_______________________ 4. Most people do not want to go to work, but they do, because
they get paid, to obtain food, water, shelter, and clothing.
_______________________ 5. learning gender roles from childhood, learning religious beliefs,
and differing responses to dogs
_______________________ 6. the ability to overcome your impulses and immediate desires in
favor of behavior that is in line with your standards
_______________________ 7. pressure derived from social factors, such as lack of income or
lack of quality education, drives individuals to commit crime.
_______________________ 8. drug trafficking is more difficult to access in some parts of the
city than in others. A person who intends to become a drug dealer not only requires drug
suppliers, but also a customer base and a street corner where he can sell his drugs. Access to
these means, however, is not open to everyone.
_______________________ 9. Adults rarely treat children as subjects. Instead, they treat them
as objects to be controlled and manipulated.
_______________________ 10. people learn to become criminals through interactions with
others (friends, peers, and family members).
_______________________ 11.  an individual who witnesses someone they respect committing
a crime, who is then reinforced for that crime, is then more likely to commit a crime themselves.

________________________12. Extra Y chromosome is responsible for criminal behaviour.

________________________13. Children are born good and learn to be bad from others.
________________________14. The powerful in the society are the one’s imposing standards of
morality and good behaviour.
________________________15. Criminals are epileptic, insane and inborn.
________________________16. People are possessed by evil spirits when they commit crime.
________________________17 Juvenile delinquency is a product of oppression of children by
adults.
________________________18. Criminals are originally low-grade people who tend to break
the law without preference.
________________________19. Conflict stems from the person’s basic drive (ID).
________________________20. Juvenile delinquency is caused by immaturity and
hyperactivity.

II-B) IDENTIFY THE PERSONALITIES WHO PROPOSED THE FOLLOWING THEORIES.

Alterations are considered wrong!

_______________________1. General Inferiority Theory

_______________________2. Atavistic Stigmata
_______________________3. Drift Theory
_______________________4. Labeling Theory
_______________________5. Self-Derogation theory
_______________________6. Social Control Theory
_______________________7. Interactional Theory
_______________________8. Routine Activity Theory
______________________ 9. Social Disorganization Theory
_______________________10. Anomie theory
_______________________11. Strain Theory
_______________________12. Differential Opportunity Theory
_______________________13. Class Conflict Theory
_______________________14. Differential Oppression Theory
_______________________ 15. Relationship of body type and personality theory

Prepared By: Checked By:

JENNIFER G. PADIERNOS IAN ANGELO B. BONILLA

Instructor Program Coordinator

Noted By:

MARISSA F. PRUDENCIO, Ph.D.

Academic Dean