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Intro to Criminology Midterm Examination

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 38mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The Father of Criminology.

a)

Cesare Beccaria

b)

Cesare Lombroso

c)

Enrico Ferri

d)

Rafaelle Garofalo

2.

According to Lombroso this type of criminal comes from a lower form of life, a drawback to their apelike ancestors than to non-criminals in traits and disposition.

a)

Born Criminal

b)

Insane Criminal

c)

Criminaloids

d)

Criminal of passion

3.

Their arm span is greater than their height, just like apes, which uses their forearms to propel themselves along the ground.

a)

Born Criminal

b)

Insane Criminal

c)

Criminaloids

d)

Criminal of passion

4.

These type of criminals as classified by Lombroso inherited physical problems that impelled them into a life of crime.

a)

Born Criminal

b)

Insane Criminal

c)

Criminaloids

d)

Criminal of passion

5.

These are the physical characteristics that distinguish born criminals from the general population and are throwbacks to animals or primitive people.

a)

Atavistic anomalies

b)

Anomie

c)

Normlessness

d)

Insane criminals

6.

According to Lombroso, these are the physical features of creatures at an earlier stage of development, before they became fully human.

a)

Anthropometry of criminals

b)

Criminaloids

c)

Atavistic stigmata

d)

Criminal traits

7.

The concept of defining a certain phenomenon using specific factors that have contributed the variation of its consequence.

a)

Determinism

b)

Cartographic School

c)

Anomie

d)

Classical School

8.

In studying criminals, he integrated Comte’s positivism, Darwin Evolution and other pioneering studies of the relation of crime to the body.

a)

Cesare Beccaria

b)

Cesare Lombroso

c)

Enrico Ferri

d)

Rafaelle Garofalo

9.

The following are the main proponents of the positivist school of thought in Criminology, EXCEPT;

a)

Cesare Lombroso

b)

Cesare Beccaria

c)

Enrico Ferri

d)

Rafaelle Garofalo

10.

Philosophically Lombroso changed the concept of free will with ______.

a)

Biological traits

b)

Determinism

c)

Integrated concept

d)

Anomalies

11.

What is the tool used in determinism in finding out how it affect or causes a certain phenomena?

a)

Scientific approach

b)

Nominal approach

c)

Individual approach

d)

Selective approach

12.

He emphasized the multiple causes of crime, including environmental causes that were not biologically determined.

a)

Cesare Lombroso

b)

Cesare Beccaria

c)

Enrico Ferri

d)

Rafaelle Garofalo

13.

He pioneered of the case-study approach to criminology.

a)

Cesare Lombroso

b)

Cesare Beccaria

c)

Enrico Ferri

d)

Rafaelle Garofalo

14.

He used the measurements of the physical features of prison inmates and concluded that criminal behavior correlated with specific bodily characteristics, particularly cranial, skeletal, and neurological malformations.

a)

Cesare Lombroso

b)

Cesare Beccaria

c)

Enrico Ferri

d)

Rafaelle Garofalo

15.

The most significant contribution of positivism to the Criminology profession.

a)

Used of Scientific approach in studying crimes

b)

Denounce the Free will

c)

Founding of the positivist school of criminology

d)

Viewing cause of crime as a multi faceted factor

16.

The branch of social science that uses the scientific method of the natural sciences and suggests that human behavior is a product of social, biological, psychological, or economic forces.

a)

Classical approach

b)

Positivist

c)

Sociology

d)

Cartographic school

17.

The founder of Sociology, who started the application of the modern methods of physical sciences in the social sciences.

a)

Cesare Lombroso

b)

Cesare Beccaria

c)

Emile Durkheim

d)

Auguste Comte

18.

The positivist believed that human behavior is a function of____.

a)

Human nature

b)

Internal and external factor

c)

Society

d)

Changes of time

19.

He argued that “there could be no real knowledge of social phenomena unless it was based on a positivist approach.”

a)

Cesare Lombroso

b)

Cesare Beccaria

c)

Emile Durkheim

d)

Auguste Comte

20.

He argued that, criminal behavior is a normal part of all societies and that no society, can ever have complete uniformity of moral consciousness.

a)

Auguste Comte

b)

Emile Durkheim

c)

Cesare Beccaria

d)

Cesare Lombroso

21.

Durkheim who is also credited as having contributed to the field of criminology believed that the criminal as an acceptable human being and one of the prices that a society pays for________.

a)

Freedom

b)

Development

c)

Humanity

d)

Deviancy

22.

Durkheim argued that industrial societies are effective at producing EFFECTIVE CONTROLS to the behavior of individuals. What does he meant as a requirement to the effective control for human behavior.

a)

Collective conscience

b)

Punishment

c)

Leaders

d)

Vengeance

23.

Durkheim claimed that industrial societies differ from nonindustrial ones. Individuals in industrial societies are more likely to exhibit what he called Anomie. What he mean by ANOMIE?

a)

Lawful

b)

Without norms

c)

Without Boundaries

d)

Control

24.

A type of criminal according to Lombroso, who is not a criminal from birth but later become one as a product of some changes in the brain which causes defects on his ability to distinguish right from wrong.

a)

Born Criminal

b)

Insane Criminal

c)

Criminaloids

d)

Criminal of passion

25.

Ferri, partly agreed with the biological determinant as basis for criminal behavior but he strongly believed on the importance of some factor that explains why people commit crimes.

a)

Social, economic and political determinants

b)

Psychological equivalents

c)

Heredity

d)

Environment

26.

Garofalo in studying lombroso’s theory of atavistic stigmata, he found insufficient to explained criminal behavior, which he linked criminal behavior not to physical features but on the moral anomalies. What he mean by the term MORAL ANOMALIES

a)

Social environment

b)

Psychological equivalents

c)

Inherited traits

d)

Economic determinants

27.

Why Enrico Ferri insisted that criminals should be held morally liable for the crimes they committed ?

a)

Because they committed harm to society

b)

Because they must have applied rational decision

c)

Because they endanger the society

d)

Because it is what the society agreed upon

28.

According to Ferri, what the society needs in order to protect itself from criminals acts?

a)

Police authorities

b)

Criminal Law and policy

c)

Government

d)

Judges

29.

To summed up the assumptions of the positivist thinkers, crimes is caused by multiple factors. The following are the factors the cited caused crimes, EXCEPT;

a)

biological

b)

psychological

c)

sociological

d)

bad laws

30.

It emphasizes that human beings live in a social groups and that those groups and the social structure created influence behavior.

a)

biological

b)

psychological

c)

sociological

d)

bad laws

31.

Claimed that criminal behavior is determined by an individuals social environment and reject the notion of born criminal.

a)

biological

b)

psychological

c)

sociological

d)

bad laws

32.

It claimed that crime is a product of an abnormal, dysfunctional, or inappropriate mental processes with the personality.

a)

biological

b)

psychological

c)

sociological

d)

bad laws

33.

It believed that criminals are anatomically, physiologically and genetically different from non-criminals.

a)

biological

b)

psychological

c)

sociological

d)

bad laws

34.

These theory focuses on an individual as the primary unit of analysis.

a)

biological

b)

psychological

c)

sociological

d)

bad laws

35.

It argued that the caused of crime is biological inferiority.

a)

biological

b)

psychological

c)

sociological

d)

bad laws

36.

A systematic study on the causes of crime in society.

a)

Criminal Justice

b)

Criminology

c)

Criminalogy

d)

Criminal Law

37.

It argued that an offender commits a wrongful act not because of his own free will but due to the influence of some external super power called demon‘ or devil‘.

a)

Classical Criminology

b)

Demonology

c)

Positivist Criminology

d)

Neo Classical Criminology

38.

Crime and criminals are evidence of the fact that the individual was possessed by devil or demon.

a)

Classical Criminology

b)

Demonology

c)

Positivist Criminology

d)

Neo Classical Criminology

39.

An ancient manner of trial in criminal cases.

a)

Torture

b)

Ordeal

c)

Deception

d)

Penitence

40.

It assumed that most people were capable of rational calculation of gains and costs and that criminality was a choice.

a)

Classical Criminology

b)

Demonology

c)

Positivist Criminology

d)

Neo Classical Criminology

41.

Laws were to be designed and enforced based on that principle.

a)

Classical Criminology

b)

Demonology

c)

Positivist Criminology

d)

Neo Classical Criminology

42.

He argued that the law must apply equally to all, and that punishments for specific crimes should be standardized by legislatures, thus avoiding judicial abuses of power.

a)

Cesare Lombroso

b)

Cesare Beccaria

c)

Emile Durkheim

d)

Auguste Comte

43.

He claimed that people are rational beings who exercise free will in making choices.

a)

Cesare Lombroso

b)

Cesare Beccaria

c)

Emile Durkheim

d)

Jeremy Bentham

44.

It argued that punishment should fit the crime in such a way that the pain involved in potential punishment would be greater than any pleasure derived from committing the crime.

a)

Classical Criminology

b)

Demonology

c)

Positivist Criminology

d)

Neo Classical Criminology

45.

In Criminology he is credited in the development of the reformation of the system to more humane and just society.

a)

Cesare Lombroso

b)

Cesare Beccaria

c)

Emile Durkheim

d)

Jeremy Bentham

46.

He presented to the world thru his book entitled" On Crimes and Punishment", a coherent and comprehensive design for an enlightened Criminal Justice System that was to serve the people rather than the monarchy.

a)

Cesare Lombroso

b)

Cesare Beccaria

c)

Emile Durkheim

d)

Jeremy Bentham

47.

Beccaria's main argument relied on the premise that people freely choose what to do and that they (people) are responsible for the consequences of their actions which he called _____.

a)

responsibility

b)

duty

c)

freewill

d)

intent

48.

Beccaria claimed that the crime problem could be traced not to bad people but to __________.

a)

bad laws.

b)

bad system

c)

authorities

d)

society

49.

It viewed that people’s behavior is motivated by the pursuit of pleasure and the avoidance of pain.

a)

Criminal Anthropology

b)

Neo Classical School

c)

Positivist School

d)

Utilitarianism

50.

In Beccarias assumptions, Laws should be used to maintain

a)

Peace and order

b)

Control People

c)

Social Contract

d)

Consensus