PRELIM EXAM IN INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINOLOGY

MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. It is the entire body of knowledge regarding crimes, criminals and the efforts of the
society to prevent and repress them.
A. Complex Crime
B. Crimes
C. Criminology
D. All of the Above

2. It is the study of criminality in relation to the spatial distribution in a community.

A. Criminal Epidemiology
B. Criminal Demography
C. Criminal Psychology
D. Criminal Ecology

3. The study of the cause or origin of crime It studies the primary reasons for crime
commission.
A. Criminal Etiology
B. Criminal Physical Anthropology
C. Victimology
D. Criminal Ecology

4. The study of the relationship between criminality and population.

A. Criminal Demography
B. Criminal Ecology
C. Criminal Etiology
D. Criminal Physical Anthropology

5. The study of the relationship between environment and criminality.

A. Victimology
B. Criminal Epidemiology
C. Criminal Ecology
D. Criminal Physical Anthropology

6. It is the study of criminality in relation to physical constitution of men.

A. Victimology
B. Criminal Epidemiology
C. Criminal Ecology
D. Criminal Physical Anthropology

7. A white collar crime involving legal violation by corporate entity

A. Victimology
B. Blue Collar Crime
C. Corporate Crime
D. None of the above

8. A crime committed by ordinary professional criminal to maintain his livelihood

A. Impossible crime
B. White collar crime
C. Born Criminals
D. Blue Collar Crime

9. A kind of criminals under the classification of Cesare Lombroso wherein the

individuals with at least five atavistic stigmata
A. Born Criminals
B. Accidental Criminals
C. Acute Criminals
D. Chance Criminals

10. He published a book entitled "On Crimes and Punishment" in 1764 He also
presented a coherent and comprehensive design for an enlightened criminal justice
system that was to serve the people.
A. Cesare Bonesana Marchese Di Becaria
B. Cesar Bonesana Marchese Di Becaria
C. Cesare Bonnesana Marchese De Becaria
D. Cesar Beccaria

11. It is a crime committed in several places.

A. Habitual Crimes
B. Accidental Crimes
C. Topographic Crimes
D. Continuing Crime

12. It refers to those who commit criminal acts as a result of unanticipated

circumstances.
A. Acute Criminal
B. Accidental Criminal
C. Habitual Criminal
D. Chronic Criminal

13. A persons who violate criminal law because of the impulse of the moment fit of
passion or anger.
A. Chronic Crimina
B. Acute Criminals
C. Habitual Criminal
D. Accidental Criminal

14. A type of crime wherein the offender acquires something.

A. Theft
B. Heinous Crime
C. Attempted Crime
D. Acquisitive Crime

15. A type of crime when all the elements necessary for its execution and
accomplishment are present.
A. Acquisitive Crime
B. Heinous Crime
C. Consummated Crime
D. Attempted Crime

16. He founded the concept of utilitarianism wherein it assumes that all our actions are
calculated in accordance with their likelihood of bringing pleasure and pain.
A. Cesare Lombroso
B. Cesare Becaria
C. Jeremy Bentham
D. Charles Goring

17. A theory modified the doctrine of free will by stating that free will of men may be
affected by other factors and crime is committed due to some compelling reasons that
prevail These causes are pathology incompetence insanity or any condition that will
make it impossible for the individual to exercise free will entirely.
A. Neo-Classical Criminology
B. Classical Criminology
C. Utilitarianism
D. Hedonism

18. It is committed by an offender who does not know the nature and quality of his act
on account of the disease of the mind.
A. Consummated Crime
B. Hate Crime
C. Irrational Crime
D. Rational Crime
19. It refers to criminal intent.
A. Mala Prohibita
B. Guilty Mind
C. Mens Rea
D. Both B and C

20. Acts that are outlawed because they violate basic moral values such as rape
murder assault and robbery.
A. Mens Rea
B. Mala In Se
C. Both A and B
D. None of the above

21. The killing of of a large number of people in a single incident by an offender who
typically does not seek concealment or escape.
A. Mass Murder
B. Serial Murder
C. Murder
D. Multiple Counts of Murder

22. It is committed in the shortest possible time.

A. Quick Crime
B. Fast Crime
C. Inevitable Crime
D. Instant Crime

23. It refers to those who continue to commit criminal acts for such diverse reasons due
to deficiency of intelligence and lack of control.
A. Accidental Criminal
B. Habitual Criminal
C. Acute Criminal
D. None of the above

24. A forcible sex involving multiple attacker.

A. Gang Rape
B. Mass Rape
C. Group Rape
D. None of the above

25. A method to study the personality and development of mental and moral faculties
based on external shape of the skull.
A. Radiology
B. Phreniology
C. Craniology
D. Cranioscopy

26. The following are studies of criminology, except;

A. Theology
B. Geology
C. Education
D. Public administration.

27. Which is not a goal of studying criminology?

A. To understand criminal behavior
B. To predict criminal behavior
C. To control criminal behavior
D. None of these

28. The following are natural sciences that may be applied in criminology, except one;
A. Psychology
B. Medicine
C. Sociology
D. Anthropology

29. The knowledge obtained in the study of crimes and criminal behaviors is used to
resolve the crime problem and treatment of criminals. This statement applies to
criminology as:
A. A social science
B. Being dynamic
C. An applied science
D. Being relative

30. The study of criminology changes as social condition changes. This means that
criminology is:
A. Dynamic
B. A social science
C. Being relative
D. An applied science

31. It means that the study of crime varies from the place to place.
A. Criminology is social science
B. Criminology is relative
C. Criminology interdisciplinary
D. Criminology is an applied science

32. Many disciplines are involved in the study of crimes and criminal behavior such as
sociology, psychology, psychiatry, economics, political science, and among others. This
is true of criminology being:
A. An interdisciplinary field
B. A social science
C. Dynamic
D. Nationalistic

33. This means the study of criminology includes not only the study of crimes and
criminal behavior but also the reaction of society towards crime and criminal behavior.
A. Dynamic
B. A social science
C. Nationalistic
D. An interdisciplinary field

34. It refers to any person who has passed the licensure examination for criminologists
and is registered as such by the Board of Criminology
A. Criminalist
B. Law Enforcer
C. Criminology graduate
D. Criminologist

35. 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. Conduct
C. Law
D. Justice

36. A person who has violated the penal law and has been found guilty the court.
A. Accused
B. Suspect
C. Criminal
D. Parolee
37. The primary advocate of the Positivist School of Criminology.
A. August Comti
B. Cesare Lombroso
C. Cesare Beccaria
D. Henry Goddard

38. It is the most basic social institution and is the most potentially effective agency of
social control.
A. Church
B. Community
C. Family
D. School

39. It refers to the conscience of man.

A. Ego
B. Id
C. Spirit
D. Super Ego

40. The mental capacity to distinguish right from wrong.

A. Ethics
B. Discernment
C. Morality
D. Imbecile

41. The type of physique have relatively predominant muscles, bones, and motor
organs of the body.
A. Viscerotonic
B. Mesomorphic
C. Endomorphic
D. Ectomorphic

42. A type of crime in which the end result is destruction.

A. Acquisitive crime
B. Seasonal crime
C. Extinctive crime
D. Static crime

43. The offender acquires something.

A. Acquisitive crime
B. Extinctive crime
C. Seasonal crime
D. Static crime

44. It committed only during a certain period of the year.

A. Static crime
B. Seasonal crime
C. Extinctive crime
D. Acquisitive crime

45. A crime committed only in one place.

A. Static crime
B. Seasonal crime
C. Extinctive crime
D. Acquisitive crime

46. A crimes that violates the moral order but in which there is no actual victim or target.
A. Extinctive crime
B. Seasonal crime
C. Static crime
D. Victimless crime

47. A crimes that are committed when members of a group are prevented from
achieving their fullest potential because racism, sexism, or some status bias.
A. Crimes of repression
B. Crimes of National security
C. Crimes of passion
D. None of the above

48. The sensible and responsible part of an individual’s personality and is governed by
the “Reality Principle”.
A. Spirit
B. Id
C. Ego
D. Super ego

49. The primitive part of the individual’s mental make-up present at birth. It is governed
by the “Pleasure Principle” represents the unconscious biological drives for pleasure.
A. Super ego
B. Ego
C. Spirit
D. Id

50. An act or omission in violation of a public law forbidding or commanding it.

A. Criminal
B. Crime
C. Criminology
D. Criminalist