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INTRO TO CRIMINOLOGY MIDTERM EXAMINATION:

A. Multiple Choice (50points)
1) It is the study of penalty which was derived from the latin word “poena” means
penalty and “logia” means study.
a. Penology
b. Punishment
c. Proportionality
d. Penalty

2) This pertains to the modification of an individual's conduct regarding a specific

crime or sin they have [Link] maybe in the form of ostracism and expulsion.
a. Penology
b. Punishment
c. Proportionality
d. Penalty

3) A philosopical basis of Retribution Model defining that crimes can be categorized in the order
of their gravity, the penalty should also be set in standard proportion to the degree of seriousness of the
offense.
a. Penology
b. Punishment
c. Proportionality
d. Penalty

4)A punishment imposed for breaking a law, rule or agreement. Example are stoning,
strangulation, suffocation and others.
a. Penology
b. Punishment
c. Proportionality
d. Penalty

5) This form of punishment involves inflicting pain as purpose of discipline and

reforming the wrong doer. In includes branding, flogging and mutilation.
[Link] Punishment
b. Beheading
[Link] Punishment
d. Electrocution

6) The primary concern of penology and mandated to bring about the correction,
rehabilitation, and reintegration of criminal offenders as law abiding and productive
members of our society.

a. Correction
b. Non-Institutional Based Corrections
c. Institutional Based Corrections
d. Philippine Prison System

7) The community based rehabilitation that includes executive clemency grants such
as pardons, reprieves, amnesty, and sentence commutations.
a. Correction
b. Non-Institutional Based Corrections
c. Institutional Based Corrections
d. Philippine Prison System

8) This are of correction covers the imprisonment and incarceration of a convicted

person.
a. Correction
b. Non-Institutional Based Corrections
c. Institutional Based Corrections
d. Philippine Prison System
9) The composition of the institutions in the government, civil society, and the
business sector which are involved in the confinement, correction, and restoration of
those individuals charged for and/or convicted of delinquent acts or crime.
a. Correction
b. Non-Institutional Based Corrections
c. Institutional Based Corrections
d. Philippine Prison System

10) He advocated the application of the various field of natural sciences in the discovery of truth
specifically in the investigation, prosecution and adjudication of cases and become the father of
criminalistics.
a. Dr. Hans Gross
b. William Pen
c. Justice Felix Angelo Baustista
d. Flaviano Guerrero

11) He is the founder of the state of Pennsylvania, advocates the shift of punishment to incarceration in
a prison and/or jails.
a. Dr. Hans Gross
b. William Pen
c. Justice Felix Angelo Baustista
d. Flaviano Guerrero

12) He is the father of Criminology in the Philippines.

a. Dr. Hans Gross
b. William Pen
c. Justice Felix Angelo Baustista
d. Flaviano Guerrero

13) He is the only Filipino member of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation
(FBI), and hired by the Philippine government to organize the Division of Investigation
of the Department of Justice.
a. Dr. Hans Gross
b. William Pen
c. Justice Felix Angelo Baustista
d. Flaviano Guerrero

14) It is the use of scientific methods to solve legal problems, such as investigating
crimes and analyzing evidence for court. It focused on the identification, collection,
analysis, comparison and evaluation of physical evidences using scientific methods
and instruments.
a. Forensic Science
b. Dactyloscopy
c. Poroscopy
d. Dactylograpghy

15) This refer to the actual application of the science of fingerprint classification and
identification derived from latin word “dactyl” and “skopien” meaning finger to
examine.
a. Forensic Science
b. Dactyloscopy
c. Poroscopy
d. Dactylography
16) This deals with the identification of sweat pores, he proved that pores vary in
number, size and position in each individual.
a. Forensic Science
b. Dactyloscopy
c. Poroscopy
d. Dactylography

17) It is the science or study of fingerprint identification.

a. Forensic Science
b. Dactyloscopy
c. Poroscopy
d. Dactylography

18) The application of photography in law enforcement work also known as black and
white photography at that time.
a. Police Photography
b. Documentary Evidence
c. Anthropometry
[Link] document examiner

19) An evidence consist of writings, recordings, photographs, or any material containing letters, words,
sounds, numbers, figures, symbols, or their equivalent, or other models of written expression offered as
proof of their contents.
a. Police Photography
b. Documentary Evidence
c. Anthropometry
d. Questioned document examiner

20) This first scientific method of criminal identification was supplemented by

photography established by Alphonse Bertillon.
a. Police Photography
b. Documentary Evidence
c. Anthropometry
d. Questioned document examiner

21) This technological division of criminalistics is concerned with the examination of

forged, altered, or suspect papers, to determine and see if they are genuine or not,
that is the tenor or substance on the face of the documents have been changed in any
way, that it prejudices the rights of others.
a. Police Photography
b. Documentary Evidence
C. Hydrosphygmograph Machine.
d. Questioned document examiner

22) A classification of document created, executed or issued by a public official in

response to the exigencies of the public service, or in the execution of which a public
official intervened.
a. Public Document
b. Electronic Document
c. Hydrosphygmograph Machined
[Link] Examination

23) Refers to information or the representation of information, data, figures, symbols

or other modes of written expression, described or however represented which is
received, recorded, transmitted, stored, processed, retrieved or produced
electronically.
[Link] Document
b. Electronic Document
c. Hydrosphygmograph Machined
[Link] Examination

24) A device that record changes in the pulse beat of a person being questioned. An
instrument used by the criminal investigation department in the detection of crime.
[Link] Document
b. Electronic Document
c. Hydrosphygmograph Machined
[Link] Examination

25) A representation of forensic medicine that investigate the human deaths, kinds of
death and classification of injury and wounds of the dead person.
[Link] Document
b. Electronic Document
c. Hydrosphygmograph Machined
[Link] Examination
26) The system or process in the community by which crimes are investigated and the
persons suspected thereof are taken into custody, prosecuted in court, punished if
found guilty, provisions being made for their correction and rehabilitation.
a. Criminal Justice System
b. Court
c. Community
d. Crime

27) An important pillar of CJS that plays “integral role” in the administration of criminal
justice. It determines whether the person charged with a criminal offence is guilty or
not.
a. Criminal Justice System
b. Court
c. Community
d. Crime

28) It is the core of criminal justice system and composed of home, school, church,
government, and mass media.
[Link] Justice System
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29) It also refers to an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law

forbidding or commanding it.
[Link] Justice System
[Link]
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[Link]

30) The branch of public law which defines crimes treats of their nature and provides
for their punishment.
[Link] Law
[Link] Procedure
[Link]
[Link] Investigation

31) The legal system deals with criminal activity, including the enforcement of laws
and the administration of justice. It involves the implementation of a criminal code and
code of criminal procedure, but is often influenced by political leaders and the power
of law enforcement agencies.
[Link] Law
[Link] Procedure
[Link]
[Link] Investigation

32) It is the branch of forensic science that deals with examination of physical
evidence. It includes the subjects of Personal Identification, Forensic Photography,
Forensic Chemistry and Toxicology, Forensic Ballistics, Questioned Documents,
Polygraphy, and Legal Medicine.
[Link] Law
[Link] Procedure
[Link]
[Link] Investigation

33) It is defined as the collection and analysis of facts/truths about persons, things,
places that are subjects of a crime to identify the guilty party, locate the whereabouts
of the guilty party, and provide admissible evidence to establish the guilt of parties
involved in crime.
[Link] Law
[Link] Procedure
[Link]
[Link] Investigation

34) The provisions of the RPC cannot be applied if the act is not yet punishable on the
time the felony was committed. However, it may have a retroactive effect if it is
favorable to the accused who is not a habitual delinquent.
[Link]
[Link] and Definite
[Link]
[Link] in application

35) Criminal law must give a strict definition of a specific act which constitutes an
offense. Where there is doubt as to whether a definition embodied in the Revised
Penal Code applies to the accused or not, the judge is obligated to decide the case in
favor of the accused.
[Link]
[Link] and Definite
[Link]
[Link] in application

36) The RPC is applicable to felonies committed within the Philippine territorial
jurisdiction.
[Link]
[Link] and Definite
[Link]
[Link] in application
37) A crime no matter who committed it, wherever committed in the Philippines and
whenever committed. No exceptions must be made as to the criminal liability.
[Link]
[Link] and Definite
[Link]
[Link] in application

38) Unofficial name which refers to the England’s system of laws and punishment that
includes the Maragtas Code and Kalantiaw Code in the Pre-spanish Era in the
Philippines.
[Link] Code
[Link] of Hammurabi
[Link] of Drakon
[Link] Salica

39) The “law of talion”, or the principle of “tit for tat”,(an eye for an eye, tooth for a
tooth) appears throughout this Code.
[Link] Code
[Link] of Hammurabi
[Link] of Drakon
[Link] Salica

40) This code knows as the ultimate in severity that death was the punishment for
almost every offense.
[Link] Code
[Link] of Hammurabi
[Link] of Drakon
[Link] Salica

41) This law provides for the schedule of monetary compensations for wrong doings
which they called “the botes”. The value of monetary compensation for human life
based on his status in life referred to as Wergild or Wergeld.
[Link] Code
[Link] of Hammurabi
[Link] of Drakon
[Link] Salica
42) The word forensic was derived from the Latin word “forum” meaning “market
place, a place where people normally gathered for purposes of public discussion.
[Link]
[Link]

43) Absolute pardon is a contract between the executive and the convict that the
former will release the latter upon compliance with the condition.
a. True
b. False
44) Sampaguita Camp houses the medium security prisoners, reception and
Diagnostic Center and Youth Rehab Center are located.
a. True
b. False

45) Medium Security Prisoners is a special group of prisoners composed of incorrigible,

intractable, and highly dangerous persons.
a. True
b. False

46) Municipal prisoners are prisoners sentenced to not more than one year while
Insular Prisoners (National Prisoners) are those sentenced for three years and one day.
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47) Jus Desert are those who commit a violation of the law deserves to be punished
while Equity must see to it that people who commit the same offense should be
treated with in the same manner in terms of their exact punishment.
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48) Incapacitation and isolation have something in common and that is their purpose
is to prevent future crime by removing the defendant from society such as by
incarceration or house arrest.
[Link]
[Link]

49) Elmira Reformatory is considered as the forerunner of Modern Penology. It

established a link between the community-based program and penal institution.
[Link]
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50) Law enforcement is the front liner or prime mover of the Criminal Justice System in
the Philippines.
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B. Enumeration (10Points)
51. When does the Revised Penal Code took effect?

[Link] are the five pillars of Criminal Justice System?

57-60. Enumerate atleast four branches or subjects of Criminalistics?

C. Essay
61-62) Penology is the study of the control of crimes and the rehabilitation of
offender. In your own explanation what is the role and importance of penology in the
process of Criminal Justice System? (2points)
63-65) Do you think that inmates in correctional facilities have undergone true reform
and rehabilitation? Explain. (3points)

66-67) Do you believe in the principle of the law of talion (eye for an eye and tooth for
a tooth), that punishment should be the same as the harm inflicted on the victim?
Defend your answer. (2points)

68-70) In your understanding, why court system plays an “integral role” in the
administration of criminal justice? Explain. (3points)

Key Answers:

Multiple Choice

1. A 2. B 3. C 4. D 5. A

6. A 7. B 8. C 9. D 10. A

11. B 12. C 13. D 14. A 15. B

16. C 17. D 18. A 19. B 20. C

21. D 22. A 23. B 24. C 25. D

26. A 27. B 28. C 29. D 30. A

31. B 32. C 33. D 34. A 35. B

36. C 37. D 38. A 39. B 40. C

41. D 42. A 43. B 44. A 45. B

46. A 47. A 48. A 49. A 50. A

51. Revised 52. Law 57. Forensic 61-70.

Penal Enforceme Photography/Fo dEPENDS THE
Code
 nt rensic Ballistic explanation
53. Prosecution 58. Forensic
Photography or
54. Court
Lie Detection
55. Correction
59. QD/Forensic
56. Community Chemistry
60. Personal
Identification/
Forensic
Fingerprint