INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINOLOGY MIDTERM EXAMINATION

Name: ____________________________________________________________________________ Date: ________________________

A. IDENTIFICATION. Choose the word being described, defined or referred to by the statements. STRICTLY
no erasure. ERASURE means WRONG. 2 pts each.
George L. Wilker Criminology It is nationalistic Ectomorphy Dementia praecox Penology

Necrophilism Rafaele Garofalo Mesomorphy Kleptomaniac Edwin H. Sutherland

Hammurabi’s Code Firearms Identification Endomorphy William H. Sheldon Robert King Merton

Albert Cohen Differential Opportunity Sub-Culture Theory of Delinquency Theory of Evolution

Charles Darwin’s Theory Containment Theory Positivist Theory Criminology Man

Delinquency
1. ________________________________________ the scientific approach to studying criminal behavior.
Theory
2. ________________________________________ the study of crimes must be in relation with the existing criminal law within a
territory or country.
3. ________________________________________ Which is concerned with the control and prevention of crime and treatment of
youthful offenders
4. ________________________________________ argued that criminology cannot possibly become a science.

5. ________________________________________ A collective terms of mental disorders that begins at, or shortly after puberty
and usually leads to general failure of the mental faculties, with the corresponding physiological impairment.

6. _______________________________________ an uncontrollable and morbid propensity to steal or pathological stealing. The

symptoms of this disease usually consist of peculiar motives for stealing and hoarding.
7. _______________________________________ Morbid craving, usually of an erotic nature for dead bodies. It is also a form of
perversion where sexual gratification is achieved either through sexual intercourse with, or mutilation of a dead
body.

8. _______________________________________ An American authority in criminology, who in his book “Principles of

Criminology”. Considers criminology at present as not a science, but it has hopes of becoming a science.

9. _______________________________________ A code after a name of a person who firstly adopted the principle “An eye for an
eye, and a tooth for a tooth” in the imposition of punishment.
10. ______________________________________ with the study, comparison and identification of weapons alleged to have been
used in the commission of crime.
11. ______________________________________ a type with relatively predominance of soft, roundness throughout the regions
of the body. They have low specific gravity. Persons with typically relaxed and comfortable disposition.

12. ______________________________________ He became popular of his own Somatotyping Theory. His key ideas are
concentrated on the principle of “Survival of the Fittest” as a behavioral science.

13. ______________________________________ He advocated the DAT – Differential Association Theory, which maintain that
the society is composed of different group organization, the societies consist of a group of people having
criminalistics tradition and anti-criminalistics tradition.
15. ______________________________________ He advocated the Strain Theory, which maintains that the failure of man to
achieve a higher status of life caused them to commit crimes in order for that status/goal to be attained.

16. ______________________________________ This theory explained that society leads the lower class to want things and
society does things to people.

17. ______________________________________ is the best creature God has ever made of all the things he created.
18. ______________________________________ claims that the lower class cannot socialize effectively as the middle class in
what is considered appropriate middle-class behavior.

19. ______________________________________ Man is an organism having an animalistic behavior that is dependent on other
animals for survival. Thus, man kills and steal to live.

20. ______________________________________ assumes that for every individual there exists a containing external structure
and a protective internal structure, both of which provide defense, protection or insulation against crime or
delinquency.
B. MULTIPLE CHOICE. Encircle the letter of your B. Photography D. Ballistics
choice. STRICTLY no erasure. ERASURE means
WRONG. 14. It is one of the scientific methods in crime
detection, although strictly speaking, it is not a part of
1. The study of the interrelationship of people and criminalistics.
their environment. A. Polygraphy C. Forensics
A. Human Ecology C. Human Relationship B. Photography D. Ballistics
B. Human Behavior D. Family Relation
15. Which of the following are NOT under scientific
2. He advocated the Strain Theory. divisions of criminalistics?
A. Robert King Merton C. Gresham Sykes A. Chemistry C. Physics
B. Albert Cohen D. Lloyd Ohlin B. Biology D. Questioned document examination

3. He became popular of his own Somatotyping Theory 16. He is the world’s famous authority in the field of
A. Ernest Kretschmer C. William H. Sheldon criminology who advocated the Positivist Theory.
B. Edwin Sutherland D. Walter Reckless A. Dr. Cesare Lombroso C. Dr. Charles Goring
B. Cesare Beccaria D. Alphonse Bertillon
4. He advocated the DAT – Differential Association
Theory. 17. An English statistician, who studied the case
A. Willem Bonger C. Karl Marx histories of 2,000 convicts, and found that heredity is
B. Frederick Engel D. Edwin Sutherland more influential as determiner of criminal behavior
than environment.
5. He advocated the “Human Ecology Theory”. A. Dr. Cesare Lombroso C. Dr. Charles Goring
A. Robert Ezra Park C. David Emile Durkheim B. Cesare Beccaria D. Alphonse Bertillon
B. Raffaele Garofalo D. Enrico Ferri
18. One who originated a system of classifying
6. Refers to the act creating the board of examiner for criminals according to bodily measurements.
criminologist in the A. Dr. Cesare Lombroso C. Dr. Charles Goring
Philippines. B. Cesare Beccaria D. Alphonse Bertillon
A. RA No. 6975 C. RA No. 6506
B. RA No. 855 D. RA No. 11131 19. Who, in his book: “An Essay of Crimes and
Punishments” advocated and applied doctrine of
7. Any person who is a graduate with the Degree of penology.
Criminology, who has passed the examination for A. Dr. Cesare Lombroso C. Dr. Charles Goring
criminologist and is registered as such by the Board of B. Cesare Beccaria D. Alphonse Bertillon
Examiners of the Professional Regulation
Commission. 20. The great prison reformer, wrote ―The State of
A. Criminalist C. Penologist Prisons in England‖ in 1777, after a personal
B. Criminologist D. Specialist investigation of practically all the prisons in England.
A. W.A. Bonger C. David W. Maurer
8. A person who is trained in sciences of the B. R.H. Goddard D. John Howard
application of instruments and methods, to the
detection of crime. 21. Code after a name of a person who firstly adopted
A. Criminalist C. Penologist the principle “An Eye for An Eye, and a Tooth for a
B. Criminologist D. Specialist Tooth” in the imposition of punishment.
A. Kalantiao’s Code C. Justinian Code
9. What is the original name for criminalistics? B. Hammurabi Code D. Burgundian Code
A. Forensic Chemistry C. Forensic Science
B. Police Science D. Criminology 22. Considered as the forerunner of modern Penology,
located in New York, in 1876.
10. Deals with the study, comparison and A. Auburn Prison System C. All of the above
identification of weapons alleged to have been used in B. Elmira Reformatory D. None of the above
the commission of crime.
A. Ballistics C. Legal Ballistics 23. Its features were confinement of the prisoners in
B. Forensic Ballistics D. Firearms Identification single cells at night and congregate work in shops
during the day.
11. This method aims to be able to determine and A. Auburn Prison System B. Elmira Reformatory
know about person’s characteristics, traits and C. All of the above D. None of the above
personality by the way he writes his letters and shapes
his words. 24. Refers to the Golden Age of Penology.
A. Cryptography C. Cacography A. 1870 to 1880 C. 1890 to 1898
B. Graphology D. Calligraphy B. 1880 to 1890 D. 1898 to 1990

12. Refers to a cornerstone of personal identification. 25. When was the first International Prison Congress
A. Identification System held in London?
B. Footprint Identification A. 1872 C. 1934
C. Friction Ridge Identification B. 1876 D. 1880
D. Fingerprint Identification
26. Criminology at present is:
13. Refers to an indispensable instrumentation in the A. Is a science C. Is a social science
field of criminalistics. B. Not an absolute science D. Is a future science
A. Polygraphy C. Forensics
27. Vagrancy is punishable under: 39. A statement that we would have no crime if we had
A. Art. 202 RPC C. Art. 222 RPC no law, and that we could eliminate all crime merely
B. Art. 220 PRC D. Art. 223 RPC by abolishing all criminal laws.
A. Logomacy C. Biosocial behavior
28. Prostitution under our law is a: B. Biometry D. Anthropology
A. Sin C. Crime
B. Evil D. An act of vagrancy 40. A person’s biological heritage, plus his
environment and social heritage, influence his social
29. Also known as an Anti-fencing Law. activity.
A. PD 1612 C. PD 603 A. Heredity C. Biosocial behavior
B. PD 1216 D. PD 9165 B. Biometry D. Inheritance

30. Edwin H. Sutherland and Donald R. Cressey 41. have been believed to share about equally in
authored a criminology book determining disposition, that is, whether a person is
entitled: cheerful or gloomy, his temperament, and his nervous
A. The Criminologist ability.
B. Principle of Criminology A. Heredity C. Biosocial behavior
C. The Crime B. Biometry D. Inheritance
D. The Criminology Profession
42. The transmission of physical characteristics,
31. A collective terms of mental disorders that begins mental traits, tendency to disease, etc. from parents to
at, or shortly after puberty and usually leads to general offspring.
failure of the mental faculties, with the corresponding A. Heredity C. Genetics
physiological impairment. B. Biometry D. Inheritance
A. Dementia praecox C. Criminologenic Process
B. Episodic criminal D. Criminal dynamics 43. Considered as the “Father of modern Criminology”
A. Cessare Lombroso C. Cesarre Lombroso
32. Explain human behavior and the experiences B. Cesare Lombroso D. Cessar Lombroso
which help determine the person’s personality as a
reacting mechanism; that factors or experiences in 44. the “Holy three” of Criminology.
connection thereto infringe deferentially upon A. Garofalo, Ferri, Lombroso
different personalities, producing conflict which is the B. Lombroso, Beccaria, Ferri
aspect of crime. C. Ferri, Garofalo, Beccaria
A. Dementia praecox C. Criminologenic Process D. Durkheim, Lombroso, Beccaria
B. Episodic criminal D. Criminal dynamics
45. a type with relatively predominance of soft,
33. this study concentrates on the study of individuals roundness throughout the regions of the body. They
as opposed to general studies of mass populations have low specific gravity. Persons with typically
with respect to their general criminal behavior. relaxed and comfortable disposition.
A. Dementia praecox C. Criminologenic Process A. Ectomorphy C. Endomorphy
B. Episodic criminal D. Criminal dynamics B. Mesomorphy D. Asthenic

34. A condition of sexual perversion in which a person 46. They are the people who are routinely active and
derives pleasure from being dominated or cruelly aggressive, and they are the most likely to commit
treated. crimes.
A. Melancholia C. Masochism A. Ectomorphy C. Endomorphy
B. Kleptomaniac D. Erotomania B. Mesomorphy D. Asthenic

35. A mental disorder characterized by excessive 47. athletic type, predominance of muscle, bone and
brooding and depression of spirits; typical of manic- connective tissue, normally heavy, hard and firm, sting
depressive psychosis, accompanied by delusions and and tough.
hallucinations A. Ectomorphy C. Endomorphy
A. Melancholia C. Masochism B. Mesomorphy D. Asthenic
B. Kleptomaniac D. Erotomania
48. thin physique, flat chest, delicacy through the
36. an uncontrollable and morbid propensity to steal body,
or pathological stealing. The symptoms of this disease slender, poorly muscled. They tend to look more
usually consist of peculiar motives for stealing and fatigue and withdrawn.
hoarding. A. Ectomorphy C. Endomorphy
A. Melancholia C. Masochism B. Mesomorphy D. Asthenic
B. Kleptomaniac D. Erotomania
49. he was considered as the “Dean of Modern
37. An individual with a strongly self-centered pattern Criminology.”
of emotion, fantasy and thought. A. Edwin Sutherland C. Walter Reckless
A. Delusion C. Both A & B B. Raffaele Garofalo D. David Emile Durkheim
B. Hallucination D. Only A
50. who distinguished three principal types of
38. Delusion – in medical jurisprudence, a false belief physique as: Asthenic, Athletic, and Pyknic
about self, caused by morbidity, present in paranoia A. William H. Sheldon C. Ernest Kretschmer
and dementia praecox. B. Edwin Sutherland D. Walter Reckless
A. Delusion C. Melancholia
B. Hallucination D. Dementia praecox
C. ESSAY. What is the difference between the FOUR NATURE OF CRIMINOLOGY. Use the space provided below.
10 pts.

1. it is an APPLIED SCIENCE
2. it is a SOCIAL SCIENCE
3. it is DYNAMIC
4. it is NATIONALISTIC