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MOCKBOARD EXAMINATION
CRIMINAL SOCIOLOGY, ETHICS AND HUMAN RELATIONS
INSTRUCTION: Select the correct answer for each of the following questions. Write
the letter of your choice on the answer sheet provided.
1. The Police seek to prevent crimes by being present in places where crimes might
be committed and by alerting citizens to refrain from practices that make them or
their property vulnerable.
a. law enforcement b. public services
c. opportunity denial d. order maintenance
2. The society’s prime instrument for making known what acts are crimes and what
sanctions may be applied to those who commit acts defined as crimes.
a. ethics b. law
c. conduct d. justice
3. A social norm providing guidance for people in their dealings with one another,
as a standard against which actions are evaluated, and as a prescription or
requirement that people act justly.
a. law b. justice
c. ethics d. conduct
4. It is the study of human society, its origin, structure, functions and direction.
a. psychology b. criminology
c. sociology d. anthropology
5. A person who has violated the penal law and has been found guilty by the court.
a. accused b. parolee
c. suspect d. criminal
6. A body of knowledge regarding crime as a social phenomenon.
a. criminal psychology b. criminal sociology
c. criminal law d. criminology
7. The reduction or elimination of the desire and opportunity to commit a crime.
a. law enforcement b. crime prevention
c. protection of rights d. order maintenance
8. The primary advocate of the Positivist School in Criminology.
a. Cesare Beccaria b. Cesare Lombroso
c. Henry Goddard d. Augusto Comti
9. The science of classifying human physical characteristics.
a. determinism b. somatology
c. positivism d. atavism
10. Reacting to events with alertness and vigilance and a feeling of persecution.
a. dementia praecox b. hallucination
c. paranoia d. depression
11. Science concerned with improving the quality of human off springs.
a. genetics b. eugenics
c. criminology d. heredity
12. Scientific approach based upon mental processes and characteristics.
a. psychogenic determinism b. emotional determinism
c. biological determinism d. criminological determinism
13. The principle that events, including criminal behavior, has sufficient causes.
a. positivism b. determinism
c. atavism d. nazism
14. Criminals who acted under the impulse of uncontrolled emotion on occasion
during otherwise moral lives.
a. seasonal criminals b. criminals of passion
c. occasional criminals d. born criminals
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