Date: __________________________ Name: __________________________ REVIEW 1 REMOVAL EXAM Time: _____________________ SET - A

INSTRUCTION: Select the correct answer for each of the following questions. Mark only one answer for each answer by shading the letter of your choice on the sheet provided. STRICTLY NO ERASURES ALLOWED. 1. Criminology is the study of: a. The criminal justice process
b. The nature and extent of criminal behavior * c. The behavior of the agencies of justice and their influence on crime

d. The analysis of justice system policies and the formulation of law e. All of the foregoing 2. Criminologists often derive explanations of criminal behavior from observable facts or what else? a. Victims b. Analysis c. Statistics d. Theory * e. All of the foregoing 3. Criminologists try to identify the root causes of crime and victimization by developing scientifically testable statements, which are also known as what? a. Facts b. Hypotheses * c. Relationships d. Experiments e. All of the foregoing 4. Prior to closing a 200 Million drug deal, Donn considers the possibility of getting caught and his need to pay one of his creditors who has financed him in several previous drug deals. Donn also has a vacation in the Bahamas planned and could use a little extra cash. Donn decides to proceed with the deal. What theory best describes this scenario? a. Choice theory * b. Deterrence theory
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c. Strain theory d. Perceptual deterrence theory e. All of the foregoing 5. Which of the following is one of the main principles of classical criminology?
a. Crime results when the demands of a particular culture oppose traditional norms

b. Criminal behavior is learned when an individual encounters excessive definition favoring law violations c. Crime results from faulty socialization d. Criminal behavior is attractive because it requires less effort for greater gain * e. None of the foregoing 6. Cesare Lombroso used what term to describe offenders as throwbacks to primal stages of human evolution? a. Atavistic * b. Autistic c. Criminaloid d. Ballistic 7. The origins of sociological criminology are often attributed to what pioneer? a. Sigmund Freud b. Emile Durheim * c. Robert Merton d. Clifford Shaw e. Cesare Beccaria 8. If criminals are made not born then it follows that crime can be eradicated by what? a. The use of advance gene theory b. Incarcerating known habitual criminals c. Harsher penalties for all who commit felonies d. The elimination of responsible social elements * 9. Which of the following is true according to social structure theory? a. A significant number of offenders live in middle class suburban areas b. Offenders have high arousal levels to environmental stimuli which determines the structure of their offending behavior
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c. Social programs resulting from the war on poverty have no effect on the crime rate d. The unequal distribution of wealth, power, and prestige is a root cause of crime * 10. Which of the following are two factors which are likely to contribute to the process of weakening the social bond?
a. School failure and disrupted home life *

b. Lack of social control and opportunity c. Normlessness and economic hardship d. Poverty and inadequate role models
e. No Food and shelter

11. What theory describes the process by which a person becomes fixed with a negative identity or status such as delinquent or criminal? a. Stigmatization b. Labeling * c. Humiliation d. Degradation 12. What criminological theory which focuses on the unequal distribution of power, discrimination, and class bias? a. Cultural deviance theory b. Conflict theory * c. Constraint theory d. Socialist theory 13. Sigmund Freud said some people become criminals because they have an inadequately develop: a. Id b. Body c. Superego * d. Ego 14. What technique did Sheldon use to construct his somatotype theory? a. Tracing family parentage b. Bleached skulls and ball bearings c. Three-way photographs of the human body * d. Intelligence tests 15. Any fact or occurrence that is observed/perceived by the people in the community; any social condition that is true or applicable to all aspects of human life. a. Social phenomenon * b. Normlessness c. Social norms d. Delinquency e. None of the foregoing 16. An act or omission punishable by any existing special law that is penal in nature.
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a. Felony b. Offense * c. Crime d. Prohibited act 17. Acts considered as criminal because an existing law seeks to regulate or prohibit such particular actions. a. Mala in se b. Mala prohibita c. Misdemeanor d. Felonies e. None of the foregoing 18. Which one is not included in criminal formula? a. Crime/Criminal behavior b. Criminal tendency c. Suspect * d. Total situation e. Resistance 19. A Greek historian put into writing the usefulness of the death penalty sometime on the 5th century BC. a. Aristotle b. Thucydides * c. King Hammurabi d. Ramses the III e. Alexander the Great 20. What is the school of thought pioneered by three Italians who agreed that in the study of crime, the emphasis should be on scientific treatment of the criminal and not on the penalties to be imposed after conviction? a. The positive school * b. The classical school c. Neo-classical d. New school e. Old school 21. What is the classical theory or philosophy which explains that a person usually act in such a way that hr seeks pleasure and avoid pain? The classical philosophy was primarily introduced by Jeremy Bentham. a. Utilitarian hedonism * b. Classical school c. Positivist d. Determinism e. All of the foregoing 22. If Classical theories promoted the doctrine of freewill, what doctrine was that upheld by the Positive school? Doctrine of classicalinism Doctrine of positivism Doctrine of determinism * Doctrine of hedonism None of the foregoing 23. Person who inherited criminal behavior or tendencies from their parent. a. Born criminal * b. Insane criminal
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a. b. c. d. e.

c. Smooth criminal d. Criminaloid e. Mongoloid 24. People who are easily influenced by great emotions like sudden anger. a. Criminaliod b. Mongoloid c. Criminal by accident d. Criminal by passion * e. Jealous criminal 25. Those who commit crimes due to abnormalities or physical disorders thus they should be exempted from criminal liability. a. Born criminal b. Insane criminal * c. Mongoloid d. Criminaloid e. Smooth criminal