Refresher Course 1

Institutional Correction
(Reviewer)

Multiple Choice

1. The study of punishment for crime or of criminal offenders.

a. Penology
b. Correction
c. Penal management
d. Authority
2. A branch of the Criminal Justice System concerned with the custody, supervision and rehabilitation of
criminal offenders.

a. Correction
b. Penology
c. Penal management
d. Correctional Administration

3. Refers to the manner or practice of managing or controlling places of confinement as in jails or

prisons.

a. Penal management
b. Correction
c. Penology
d. Correctional Administration

4. The study and practice of a systematic management of jails or prisons and other institutions
concerned with the custody, treatment, and rehabilitation of criminal offenders.

a. Correctional Administration
b. Penal management
c. Correction
d. Penology

5. Refers to the Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, Regional Trial Court, Metropolitan Trial Court,
Municipal Trial Court, Municipal Circuit Trial Court, Sandigan Bayan, Military Courts, House of
Representatives, Senate, Commission on Elections, Bureau of Immigration and Deportation and Board of
Pardons and Parole.

a. Competent Authority
b. Correctional Administration
c. Penal management
d. Correction
6. otherwise known as “inmate record or jacket”, contains the personal and criminal records of inmates,
documents related to his/her incarceration such as but not limited to: commitment order, subpoenas,
personal identification, orders from the court, and all other papers necessarily connected with the
detention of an inmate.

a. Carpeta
b. Carpet
c. Carmona
d. Carmina

7. It refers to the entrusting for confinement of an inmate to a jail by competent authority for
investigation, trial and/or service of sentence.

a. Commitment
b. Label
c. Carpeta
d. Classification

8. refers to the assigning or grouping of inmates according to their sentence, gender, age, nationality,
health, criminal records, etc.

a. Classification
b. Commitment
c. Label
d. Carpeta

9. A written order of the court, or any other agency authorized by law to issue, entrusting an inmate to a
jail for the purpose of safekeeping during the pendency of his/her case.

a. Commitment Order
b. Commitment Deliver
c. Commitment Receiver
d. Commitment Passer

10. Any article, item, or thing prohibited by law and/or forbidden by jail rules.

a. Contraband
b. Deterrence
c. Conjugal Visitation
d. Escape

11. This refers to the visit by the wife for a short period, usually an hour, more or less, to her incarcerated
husband during which they are allowed privacy and are generally understood to have sexual contact.

a. Contraband
b. Conjugal Visitation
c. Escape
d. Deterrence

12. A crime-control strategy that uses punishment to prevent others from committing similar crimes.
 a. Contraband
b. Deterrence
c. Escape
d. Prisonization

13. An act of getting out unlawfully from confinement or custody by an inmate.

a. Prisonization
b. Escape
c. Contraband
d. Deterrence

14. a device, contrivance, tool, or instrument used to hold back, keep in, check, or control an inmate; e.g.
hand cuffs, leg irons

a. Convict Gogey
b. Instrument of Restraint
c. Blue Flu
d. Prisonization

15. process by which an inmate learns through socialization; the rules and regulation of the penitentiary
culture.

a. Blue Flu
b. Prisonization
c. Convict Gogey
d. Instrument of Restraint

16. the practice of uniformed personnel of taking sick leave EN MASSE to back-up their demands for
improved working conditions, salary increments, and other items on their agenda.

a. Prisonization
b. Blue Flu
c. Convict Gogey
d. Instrument of Restraint

17. society exaggerated fear of the convict and ex-convict which is usually far out of proportion to the
real danger they present.

a. Blue Flu
b. Convict Gogey
c. Prisonization
d. Escape

18. authorization that permits inmate to leave containment, for emergency family crises, usually
accompanied by correctional officer. Crises include “death bed”.

a. Prisonization
b. Furlough
c. Blue Flu
 d. Convict Gogey

19. offender are allowed to retain current employment and permit sentences to be served during
weekends

a. Expungement
b. Weekend Confinement
c. Furlough
d. Rehabilitation

20. the process by which the record of crime conviction is destroyed or sealed after expiration of
statutory required time.

a. Weekend Confinement
b. Expungement
c. Furlough
d. Rehabilitation

21. A punishment, which consist of keeping an offender in confinement and compelling him to labor.

a. Weekend Confinement
b. Expungement
c. Penal Servitude/ Forced Labor
d. Safekeeping

22. a program of activity directed to restore an inmate’s self-respect thereby making him a law-abiding
citizen after serving his sentence.

a. Weekend Confinement
b. Expungement
c. Rehabilitation
d. Safekeeping

23. the temporary custody of a person for his own protection, safety, or care; and/or his security from
harm, injury or danger for the liability he has committed.

a. Determinate Sentence
b. Indeterminate Sentence
c. Safekeeping
d. Rehabilitation

24. a fixed period of incarceration imposed on the offender by the court.

a. Safekeeping
b. Rehabilitation
c. Determinate Sentence
d. Indeterminate Sentence

25. sets minimum and maximum period of incarceration.

a. Safekeeping
 b. Rehabilitation
c. Indeterminate Sentence
d. Determinate Sentence

26. a criminal could avoid punishment by claiming refugee in a church for a period of 40 days at the end
of which time he has compelled to leave the realm by a road or path assigned to him

a. 1468 (England)
b. 16th Century
c. In the 13th C
d. 17th C to late 18th C

27. Torture as a form of punishment became prevalent.

a. 16th Century
b. 17th C to late 18th C
c. 1468 (England)
d. In the 13th C

28. – Transportation of criminals in England, was authorized. At the end of the 16th C, Russia and other
European Countries followed this system. It partially relieved overcrowding of prisons. Transportation
was abandoned in 1835.

a. 17th C to late 18th C

b. 1468 (England)
c. 16th Century
d. In the 13th C

29. Death Penalty became prevalent as a form of punishment.

a. In the 13th C
b. 1468 (England)
c. 16th Century
d. 17th C to late 18th C

30. CONSIDERED AS THE OLDEST CODE

a. CODE OF KALANTIAO
b. CODE OF SOLON
c. CODE OF KING HAMMURABI
d. BURGUNDIAN CODE

31. EMPHASIZES ON FAMILY AND CULTURAL VALUES

a. CODE OF SOLON
b. CODE OF KING HAMMURABI
c. BURGUNDIAN CODE
d. CODE OF KALANTIAO

32. FIRST TO ALLOW TO PROSECUTE A CASE IN THE NAME OF TH INJURED PARTY

 a. CODE OF KING HAMMURABI
b. BURGUNDIAN CODE
c. CODE OF KALANTIAO
d. CODE OF DRACO / DRAKONIAN CODE / CODE OF DRAKON

33. REPEALED THE DRACONIAN CODE EXCEPT HOMICIDE

a. BURGUNDIAN CODE
b. CODE OF KALANTIAO
c. CODE OF DRACO / DRAKONIAN CODE / CODE OF DRAKON
d. CODE OF SOLON

34. PUNISHMENT IS BASED ON SOCIAL CLASSES

a. CODE OF KALANTIAO
b. CODE OF DRACO / DRAKONIAN CODE / CODE OF DRAKON
c. CODE OF SOLON
d. BURGUNDIAN CODE

35. it maintains the “doctrine of psychological hedonism” or “free will”

a. The Neo-classical School

b. The Positivist/Italian School
c. Senior High School
d. The Classical School

36. it maintained that while the classical doctrine is correct in general, it should be modified in certain
details.

a. The Positivist/Italian School

b. Senior High School
c. The Classical School
d. The Neo-classical School

37. The school that denied individual responsibility and reflected non-punitive reactions to crime and
criminality. It adheres that crimes, as any other act, is a natural phenomenon.

a. Senior High School

b. The Classical School
c. The Neo-classical School
d. The Positivist/Italian School

38. affected by burning, beheading, hanging, breaking at the wheels, pillory and other forms of medieval
executions.

a. Banishment or Exile
b. Social Degradation
c. Physical Torture
d. Death Penalty
39. Affected by maiming, mutilation, whipping and other inhumane or barbaric forms of inflicting pain.

a. Banishment or Exile
b. Social Degradation
c. Death Penalty
d. Physical Torture

40. Putting the offender into shame or humiliation.

a. Banishment or Exile
b. Death Penalty
c. Physical Torture
d. Social Degradation

41. the sending or putting away of an offender which was carried out either by prohibition against
coming into a specified territory such as an island to where the offender has been removed.

a. Banishment or Exile
b. Death Penalty
c. Physical Torture
d. Social Degradation

42. This became popular when three (3) friar’s priests, commonly addressed as GOMBURZA, were
executed in 1872 by the Spanish colonial rulers for exposing the venalities of the church

a. Garrote
b. Musketry
c. Beheading
d. Hanging

43. Apprehended guerillas were beheaded by Samurai Sword at the Japanese Kempetei Garrison in
1943.

a. Beheading
b. Hanging
c. Garrote
d. Musketry

44. The famous tiger of Malaysia Yamashita died of hanging from 13th footstep platform in 1946.

a. Hanging
b. Garrote
c. Musketry
d. Electric Chair

45. The Muntinlupa electric chair has claimed more than seventy (70) offenders convicted of capital
offenses since its installation four (4) decades ago.

a. Electric Chair
b. Hanging
 c. Garrote
d. Musketry

46. While the 1987 Constitution abolished death sentence, however, Congress in 1996 passed RA 7659
as amended by RA 8177 that imposes death penalty for heinous crime by lethal injection

a. Lethal Injection
b. Electric Chair
c. Musketry
d. Garrote

47. Our national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal, died due to the alleged rebellion to the Spanish government. Drug
Lord Lim Seng met his death sentence by firing squad in 1973 at Fort Bonifacio during Martial Law.

a. Musketry
b. Garrote
c. Lethal Injection
d. Electric Chair

48. A conditional release of a prisoners after serving part of his/her sentence in prison for the purpose
of gradually re-introducing him/her to free life under the guidance and supervision of a parole officer.

a. Parole
b. Imprisonment
c. Destierro
d. Probation

49. a disposition whereby a defendant after conviction of an offense, the penalty of which does not
exceed six years imprisonment, is released subject to the conditions imposed by the releasing court and
under the supervision of a probation officer.

a. Probation
b. Parole
c. Imprisonment
d. Destierro

50. The penalty of banishing a person from the place where he committed a crime, prohibiting him to
get near or enter the 25-kilometer perimeter.

a. Destierro
b. Fine
c. Imprisonment
d. Probation