1.intro and Theories
1.intro and Theories
TO
 CRIMINOLOGY
      FREDERICK RODRIGUEZ
1. Absence of a complaining victim in the
typology of crime is classified as public order
crime or?
                   Fredrick Rodriguez
2. A crime that is committed in the shortest
possible time such as libel.
A. Acquisitive crime
B. Extinctive crime
C. Seasonal crime
D. Instant Crime
 
3. Are those who commit crime due to less physical
stamina and less self control
A. psychology
B. criminology
C. sociology
                  Anthropology-- Study of humanity
D. anthropology
                  •   archaeology,
                  •   linguistic anthropology,
                  •   physical anthropology
                  •   sociocultural anthropology
Physical/biological anthropology
• Biological/physical constitution
• Behavioral aspect
Pelvis
6. Science concerned with improving the quality
of human off springs.
                 Genetics is a branch of biology concerned with the
                 study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in
A. Genetics      organisms.
B. Eugenics                      FRANCIS GALTON
C. Criminology
D. Heredity
                      Passing of genetic traits
                      from parents to offspring
    Application of Genetic in Criminology
Robert Dugdale                Henry H Goddard
Criminality is INHERITED
7. The following are characteristics
of criminology, except:
                    study of crimes must be in relation with the existing criminal law
                    within a territory or country.
A. Nationalistic
B. Flexible
C. Dynamic     Criminology changes as a social condition changes.
A. positivism
B. determinism
C. atavism
D. narcissism
 
9. The primary advocate of the Positivist School in
Criminology.
                         Founder of POSITIVISM
A. August Comte
B. Cesare Lombroso
                              August Comte
C. Edwin Sutherland
D. Cesare Beccaria      Coined the word “SOCIOLOGY”
 
                          Father of SOCIOLOGY
Mother of Criminology
   Meda Chesney-Lind
10. This type of physique has relatively predominant
muscles, bones and motor organs of the body.
A. Viscerotonic
B. Mesomorphic
C. Endomorphic
D. Ectomorphic
 
                            William Sheldon
                             (Somatotype)
                            Mesomorphs                  Endomorphs
      Ectomorphs
                           • hard and            -   have soft,
•   Thin
                                                 -   round, and
•   fragile of form          muscularly built,   -    plump physiques and
•   introverted,           • assertive,          -    tend to relaxed,
•   sensitive, and         • extroverted, and    -   easygoing, and
•   subject to worrying.   • action seekers;     -   extroverted.
                         William Sheldon
                             TEMPERAMENT
                          (Somatotype)
                          Mesomorph             Endomorph
 Ectomorphs
                     (Somatotonic/romotonic)   (Viscerotonic)
(Cerebrotonic)
                     • assertive,              •   tend to relaxed,
•   introverted,     • extroverted, and
                                               •   easygoing, and
•   sensitive, and   • action seekers;
                                               •   extroverted.
•   subject to
    worrying
SOMATOLOGY                               Who are the Criminologist
                                         prominent in this study?
 Thisrefers to the study of the body
  build of a person
                                              • William Sheldon
 inrelation to his temperament and
  personality and the type of offense he is   • Ernest Kretschmer
  most prone to commit.
A. Serial Killer
B. Spree Killer
C. Mass Murderer
D. Homicidal
 
   A.1. Mass Murder and serial killing
operates over a long period of time and            kill many victims in a single
can be distinguished from                          violent outburst.
                                   spree killer
is a person (or more than one person) who commits two or more murders without a
cooling-off period; the lack of a cooling-off period marks the difference between a spree
killer and a serial killer.
   Committed his crime between 1974 and 1978
 Infanticide
 Parricide
 Murder
 Homicide
12. Which of the following is not true about the
principles of Positivism?
b) Chronic criminals
 b.1) Neurotic Criminals
 b.2) Normal Criminals
       Divisions of Criminology
          What is etiology?
    etiology of crime                       sociology of law                            penology
scientific analysis of the causation   -investigation of the nature of law   study of the control of crimes and
of crime and the behavior of           and its administration                the rehabilitation of offenders
criminal
14. A doctrine which criminals were seen as
distinct types of humans who could be
distinguished from non-criminals by certain
physical traits.
a. victimology
b. sociology of law
c. criminology
d. criminal etiology    Causation of crime
 
16. John took the shoulder bag of a woman
and run away. What crime according to result
did John Committed?
                     Acquires something
a. Acquisitive
b. Extinctive         destructive
c. Simple
d. Complex
 
   According to plurality
   a)Simple crime – single act constituting only one offense
a. Mosaic Code
b. Roman Law
c. Code of Kalantiao
d. Code of Maragtas
                               1250 A.D.
                                (oldest)
18. The set of crimes that are considered by the police as
so serious in nature and which occur with sufficient
frequency and regularity such that they can serve as an
index to the crime situation are called…
b. the classical school of Criminology argues that criminals were primitive creatures,
incapable of living normally in society.
a. positivism
b. hedonistic calculus
c. neoclassical School of criminology
d. Radical Criminology
21. Guilty by act means…
a. rea mens
b. actus reus
c. actus numbus
d. giltus reus
 
22. Some of the defining features of the
classical school in criminology include the
following except…
a. labeling theories
b. Radical theories
c. feminism
d. classism
 
24. After forcibly had sexual intercourse with Maria, Pedro
stabbed her 72 times with an 8 inches knife but the acts of
stabbing was not premeditated nor with deliberate thinking but
rather a product of his passion to kill. Pedro in this case is a…
                       impulse of the moment, fit of passion or anger.
a. acute criminal
b. chronic criminal
c. professional criminal
d. insane criminal
 
25. Which school of thought in criminology states that
character, not freewill nor determinism is the source of
criminality.
a. classical school
b. neo-classical school
c. positivist school
d. Latino School
26. Peter robbed the watch of Maria but due to Maria’s
refusal, Peter stab Maria to death. What crime according
to plurality is committed by Peter?
a. Complex crime
b. simple crime
c. Instant Crime
d. Situational Crime
 
27. A phenomenon that refers to the handling down of
delinquent behaviors as socially learned and transferred
from one generation to the next place mostly among
disorganized urban areas.
a. cultural transmission
b. crime
c. social phenomenon
d. delinquent behavior
 
28.This theory reflects the way people react to given situation
based on the social influences they acquired form other people
that practically determine their behaviors. This theory likewise
serves as the learning process of delinquent behaviors and
considered as one of the most important theory in crime
causation.
c. study of the facial features of man and its relation to human behavior.
a. social disorganization
b. anomie
c. strain theory
d. conflict
B.A.C.I.
           belief   criminality   commitment
                    involvement
31. This defense in a criminal case is based on the claim that
the act was the result, not of any intent on the part of the
accused but threats of loss of life, limb or a loved one.
 
a. defense of instigation
b. defense of alibi
c. defense of consent
d. defense of duress
 
32. Which of the statement best suits on
the phrase “ ignorance of the law excuses
no one?”
a. Mr. Cardo a crazy person shouting that the mall is on fire.
b. Mr. Cardo kills another person just to save himself from danger.
c. Mr. Cardo did not renew his driver’s license while driving a vehicle.
d. Mr. Cardo violated an offense because he was not informed  
33. Mr. Manny, son of a serial killer, on a drinking spree
celebration killed Mr. Lodi because the latter provoked Mr.
Manny telling that he went swimming that is why he was
absent in the class, according to the types of criminal set by
Lombroso. What type of criminal is Mr. Manny?
                                   person who commits
a. Criminaloid occasional
                                   crime due to less
b. atavistic
                                   physical stamina/self –
c. insane criminal
d. Atavism
                                   control.
 
34. What school of thought adopted a social ecology approach to
studying cities, and postulated that urban neighborhoods with high
levels of poverty often experience breakdown in the social structure
and institution such as family and schools arose in the early
twentieth century, through the work of Robert Ezra Park, Ernest
Burgess?
d. the belief that humans are rational creatures with freewill, who seek happiness.
 
36.    Some criminology theorist have linked physical
characterisitics with personality. Among these theories is
William Sheldon’s Somatotyping theory. He is classified body
physique into three categories as the endomorphic, the
mesomorphic and the ectomorphic body. Of the following
statements, which appropriately describes the mesomorphic.
A. Utopia
B. Hedonism
C. Socialism
D. Atavism
38. This school of criminology was established based on philosophy of
utilitarianism. It was particularly founded by Cesare Beccaria. This was
known as the classical school. What is that treatise on the legal
reform that became the pillar of the school?
a. Classical School
b. Positivist School
c. Essay on Crimes
d. Essay on Crimes and punishment
 
39. All of the following are the description of a criminal man
according to Lombroso, except one.
                        (L’UOMO DELINQUENTE)
41. A doctrine which criminals were seen as distinct types of
humans who could be distinguished from non criminals by
certain physical traits.
a. Blue-collar crime
b. political crime
c. public order crime
d state crime
 
43. Crime in one instance may be caused by one or
more factor, while in other instances it is caused by
another set of factors.
a. Biological factor
b. eclectic theory
c. Multiple factor theory
d. Single or unitary causes
 
44. In a situation when an offender comes to possession of
something out of the commission of the crime, what type of
crime he has committed?
a. Extinctive crime
b. static crime
c. acquisitive crime
d. episoidal crime
 
45. The Differential Association Theory provides a good illustration of
a social learning approach perspective in Criminology Criminal
Behavior according to this theory is…
a. psychiatric approach
b. psychological approach
c. biological approach
d. geographical approach
 
48. This theory states that obedience to the norms of
lower-class culture places people in conflict with
norms of the dominant culture.
a. theory of anomie
b. strain theory
c. differential association theory
d. culture conflict theory
49. Juan belongs to a poor family and commits crimes due to
financial inadequacy. This scenario applies to what theory?
a. lust killer
              Sexual satisfaction
b. mission oriented
c. thrill killer    Sheer excitement
d. serial killer
52. What kind of crime victim does these people who have
experience the harm intensely through media publicity as
their source of information?
a. mesomorphic
b. endomorphic
c. dysplastic
d. ectomorphic
54. The one who disproved the idea of Cesare
Lombroso about born criminals by his study of
English convict was…
a. Enrico Feri
b. Edwin Sutherland                               Book
c. Earnest Hooton     Physical inferiority
a. formal laws
b. conscience
c. customs
d. the Bible
 
56. The new field of criminology that deals with the
analysis of crimes involving a variety of
environmental concerns with link to criminal
activities. Which one of these?
a. comparative criminology
b. white collar criminology
c. perspective on Green Criminology
d. Corporate criminology
57. What perspective on crime causation that holds that
criminality is the result of conscious choice? It predicts that
individuals will choose to commit crime when the benefits of
doing so outweigh the costs of disobeying the law.
a. Radical theory
b. Rational Choice theory
c. Endangered species theory
d. Freewill
58. If the motive of criminal act is based upon stress,
hassles and interpersonal relations, then the most
applicable theory would be…
a. Vladimir Villasenor
b. Ramon Blanco
c. Ignacio Villamor
d. Daniel Polkmar
 
60.   The prediction, prevention, and therapeutic
intervention which include psychoanalysis, group
therapy, counselling, family therapy, drug treatment, and
reconditioning falls under the concept of…
a. Socio-cultural theories
b. biological theories
c. psychiatric theories
d. psychological theories
61. Acculturation and assimilation along with community
empowerment which include helping immigrants and
isolated subcultures feel like part of mainstream society
falls under the criminological theories involving.
a. enlightenment
                 17th and 18th centuries
b. medieval
c. renaissance
d. barbaric
 
 
 
63. It refers to all types of internal forces which may
prevent a person from committing a crime.
a. biogenic
b. psychogenic
c. pathogenic
d. sociogenic
 
66. Lombroso referred to these criminals as alcoholics,
kleptomaniacs, nymphomaniacs, and child molesters. Although
insane criminals bore some stigmata , they were not "born criminals";
rather they become criminal as a result of an alteration of the brain,
which completely upsets their moral nature.
A. Criminaloid
B. Insane Criminal
C. Atavistic
D. Hedonistic Calculus
 
67. It is the study of the formation of the
skull in relation to the behavior of the
criminal.
A. Phrenology
B. Criminology
C. Criminology
D. Entomology
 
68. The basis of criminal liability is human freewill
and the purpose of the penalty is retribution.
A. Classical theory
B. Eclectics Theory
C. Multiple factor theory
D. Positivist theory
 
69. What theory considers crime as a natural
social phenomenon?
A. Somatotyping Theory
C. Anomie Theory
B. Differential Association Theory
D. Psychoanalytical Theory
 
70. This book contains all of the Stigmata of a potential
criminal written by Lombroso on his medical studies in the
inmate of the different prison.
d. none of these
 
72. Ex post facto law is one of the constitutional rights
of every Filipino people which means that a person
should not be put into jeopardy where there is no
effective law forbidding the particular act, except.
a. Demonological theory
b. Divine theory
c. classical theory
d. neo-classical theory
 
75. Criminology changes as social condition changes. This
means the progress of criminology is concordant with the
advancement of other sciences that has been applied to it. It
connotes that criminology is…
a. dynamic
b. excellent
c. progressive
d. none of these
 
76. He founded criminal anthropology. He suggested that
physiological trait is indicative of criminal tendencies such as
measurement of cheek bones, hairline, cleft palate. He firmly
believed that there is a born criminal.
a. Acute criminal
b. chronic criminal
c. ordinary criminal
d. professional criminal
78. Allen stab at the back, killing the latter instantly, it
was committed at Fuentes Street, Pasay and Anton left
for Cavite to escape captivity for his felonious act.
What type of crime did he commit?
a. Extinctive crime
b. static crime
c. acquisitive crime
d. continuing crime
 
79. Which is the study of human society, that
deals for its origin, structure, functions and
directions?
a. sociology
b. physiology
c. physiognomy
d. phrenology
80. The study of criminality in relation to physical constitution
of men refers to …
a. Criminal etiology
b. Criminal ecology
c. criminal physical anthropology
d. criminal epidemiology
 
81. What is this theory puts the focus on the
process of naming behaviors and the people that
perform them?
a. functionalist
b. rational choice theory
c. anomie
d. labelling
 
82. Classical theory upholds what doctrine?
a. doctrine of positivism
b. classical doctrine
c. doctrine of determinism
d. none of these
 
83. What is this statement that confirms crime
correlates to society that affects almost all people?
                                                       Increasing rate
a. crime is progressive
b. crime is expensive                                      money
c. crime is destructive                                 Lost of lives
d. crime is pervasive
 
CRIME IS REFLECTIVE- crime rate or incidence in a given locality is reflective of the
effectiveness of the social defenses employed by the people primarily of the police system
84. Science concerned with improving the quality of
human offspring.
a. genetics
b. criminology
c. eugenics
d. heredity
 
85. Scientific approach based upon mental processes and
characteristics
a. psychogenic determinism
b. biological determinism
c. emotional determinism
d. criminological determinism
 
86. The principle which states that man, by nature,
always tries to maximize pleasure and avoid pain.
a. utopia
b. socialism
c. hedonism
d. atavism
 
 
87. The author of “Origin of Species” and “Descent of
Man.”
a. Lombroso
b. Beccaria
c. Darwin
d. Garofalo
 
 
88. He is the primary advocate of the Theory of
Differential Association.
a. Lombroso
b. Beccaria
c. Sutherland
d. Garofalo
89. The basic unit of society.
a. community
b. government
c. family
d. church
90. The theory of crime causation which states that
offenders should be punished regardless of *the
condition during the commission of the crime, thus,
emphasized more on the injurious effect of the criminal
act than upon the offender refers to…
a. Classical theory
b. Positivist theory
c. neo-classical theory
d. differential association theory
 
91. The theory which argued that children and lunatics do
not have the sufficient capacity to ponder upon
consequences of their acts, thus, they should not be
regarded as criminal was…
 
a. Classical theory
b. Neo-classical theory
c. Positivist theory
d. Anomie theory
 
 
92. This doctrine states that man is essentially a moral
creature with absolute freedom and intellect to choose
between good and evil.
a. free will
b. hedonism
c. determinism
d. atavism
93. The theory stating that criminal behavior is not
inherited but learned through the process of association
and communication refers to…
a. Anomie theory
b. strain theory
c. somatotyping
d. Differential association theory
 
 
 
94. Scientific study of crimes and criminals is
started by the…
a. experience learning
b. social learning
c. observational learning
d. Mock learning
 
 
97. The following are causes of criminality
according to psychological determinism, except…
a. Cesare Bonesana
b. Emil Durkheim
c. Cesare Lombroso
d. Giambtista Dela Porta
100. In classical criminology it was explained that man’s
intelligence and rationally controls human behavior and that
before they commit any crime they try to determine the
amount of pain they will suffer, which represents
the_______ for the crime they have committed.
a. rewards
b. advantage
c. punishment
d. behavior