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Name: Subject: Theories and Crime Causation

Instructions: Write your answer before the number.Encircle what you think is the correct answer. Passing score is
75.
Part I
1. This is a statement that we would have no crime if we don’t have law and that we can eliminate crime if we
merely abolish criminal law.
a. Anomie b. Criminal Law
c. Logomacy d. Crime
2. Anna wanted to go to college but since her family cannot send her to college she resorted to selling drugs just to
support her expenses in her education.
a. General Strain Theory c. Anomie
b. Strain Theory d. Differential Association Theory
3. According to Social Bond Theory of Travis Hirschi, the four (4) social bonds that promote socialization and
conformity are the following, EXCEPT.
a. Attachment c. Involvement
b. Commitment d. Organization
4. This theory viewed that people become criminals when significant members of the society label them as such and
they accept those labels as a personal identity.
a. General Strain Theory c. Social Reaction Theory
b. Strain Theory d. Differential Association Theory
5. This theory points out that an individual commits crimes after he has made a rational decision to do so and has
weighed the risks and benefits of the act and selected a particular offense according to various criteria.
a. General Strain Theory b. Rational Choice Theory
c. Strain Theory d. Differential Association Theory
6. It is the scientific analysis of the condition which the penal or criminal laws has developed as a process of formal
or social control.
a. Sociology of Law b. Victimology
c. Penology d. Criminology
7. Men’s struggle to dominate women to prove their manliness. Violence directed toward women is an especially
economical way to demonstrate manhood.
a. Doing Gender
b. Criminal of Reduction
c. Aging Out
d. Active Precipitation
8. This part of the psychic structure is the source of instinct, instinctive energy, occupies the unconscious region,
reservoir of percept, libido, habit tendencies, pleasure principle region, immoral, illogical, no unity of purpose and
the repressed materials join or pleasure it.
a. Id c. Superego
b. Ego d. Alter ego
9. This school of thought in criminology states that although individuals have self-rule, there are other factors that
affect the exercise of their autonomy, which cause them commit crimes.
a. Neo-Classical Theory b. Classical Theory
c. Utilitarianism Theory d. Positivism Theory
10. This part of the outgrowth modification of the ego. It is generally unconscious and partly conscious.
a. Id c. Superego
b. Ego d. Alter ego
11. His theory was that God did not make all the various species of animals in two days, as what the bible says but
rather that the species had evolved through a process of adoptive mutation and natural selection which led to his
conclusion that man was traced to have originated from the apes. “Origin of Species”
a. Jeremy Bentham b. Lloyd Ohlin
c. Charles Darwin d. Adolphe Quetelete
12. He said that individuals are like human calculators. Before a person commits a crime, he first analysis
whether the satisfaction he would gain is greater than the possible negative effect he would have to suffer if the gets
caught doing the crime.
a. Cesare Beccaria b. Cesare Lombroso
c. Edwin Sutherland d. Jeremy Bentham
13. Having spent half of his life in the study of the causes of crime and true to his dedication to his lifetime works,
upon his death he willed his brain and body to the Institute of Anatomy at the University of Turin in Italy to be
further studied. To this, he was named the “Father of Modern and Empirical Criminology”.
a. Cesare Beccaria b. Cesare Lombroso
c. Edwin Sutherland d. Jeremy Bentham
14. It refers to the study showing the relationship between the physical built of a person to his personality structure
and the type of offense he is most prone to commit.
a. Physiognomy b. Phrenology
c. Somatotype d. Psychology
15. His study focused on the Kallikak family tree and he concluded that feeblemindedness is inherited and related to
deviant behaviour and poverty. He was the first person to use the term ‘’moron’’.
a. Robert Dugdale b. Ernest Hooton
c. Henry Goddard d. Charles Goring
16. He founded Sociology and applied scientific methods in the study of society, which to him passes through stages
divided on the basis of how people try to understand it, leading them to adopt a rational scientific understanding of
the world.
a. August Comte c. Edwin Sutherland
b. Adolphe Qutelete d. Charles Goring
17. Among the different body types of William Sheldon presented in his study, he considered this one to be the most
likely to become a criminal.
a. Endomorph b. Mesomorph
c. Ectomorph d. Athletic
18. He was the one who introduced the following definition of criminology. ‘’It is the entire body of knowledge
regarding crime delinquency as a social phenomenon. It includes the within the scope the process of making laws, of
breaking of laws and of reacting tow ards the breaking of the laws.
a. Edwin Sutherland b. Robert K.Merton
c. Cesare Lombroso d. Paul Topinard
19. Branch of social structure that focuses on the breakdown of institution such as family, school, and employment
in inner city neighbourhood. Focuses on the conditions within the urban environment that affect crime rates. Links
crimes to neighbourhood ecological characteristics.
a. Social Structure Theory b. Social Disorganization
c. Culture Conflict Theory d. Differential Association Theory
20. Branch of social structure theory that sees strain and social disorganization together resulting in a unique lower-
class culture that conflicts with conventional social norms.
a. Culture Deviance Theory b. Social Disorganization
c. Culture Conflict Theory d. Differential Association Theory
21. The view that human behaviour is modelled through observation of human social interactions, either directly or
indirectly from observing those who are close from intimate contact, or indirectly through the media. Interactions
that are copied, while those that are punished are avoided.
a. Social Learning Theory b. Social Disorganization
c. Culture Conflict Theory d. Differential Association Theory
22. This theory reflects the way people react to a given situation based on the social influences thay are acquired
from other people that practically determine their behaviors. This theory likewise serves as the learning process of
delinquent behaviors and considered as one of the most important theory in crime causation.
a. Social Learning Theory b. Social Reaction Theory
c. Culture Conflict Theory d. Differential Association Theory
23. The theory which states that attachment, connection and link to society will determine whether a person shall
commit a crime or not.
a. Social Bond Theory b. Social Reaction Theory
c. Culture Conflict Theory d. Differential Association Theory
24. According to Ernest Kretschmer, those who are stout and with round bodies. They tend to commit deception,
fraud and violence.
a. Pyknic Type b. Asthenic Type
c. Athletic Type d. Dysplastic Type
25. According to Ernest Kretschmer, those who are less clear evident having any predominant type. Their offenses
are against decency and morality.
a. Pyknic Type b. Asthenic Type
c. Athletic Type d. Dysplastic Type
26. Those that is muscular and strong. They are usually connected with crimes or violence.
a. Pyknic Type b. Asthenic Type
c. Athletic Type d. Dysplastic Type
27. It was develop by Marcus Felson and Lawrence Cohen, drew upon control theories and explained crime in terms
of crime opportunities that occur in everyday life.
a. General Strain Theory c. Rational Choice Theory
b. Routine Activity Theory d. Differential Association Theory
28. It is a British development that focuses upon the reasons why people of the working class prey upon one another,
that is, victimize other poor people of their own race and kind.
a. Left Realism Theory c. Rational Choice Theory
b. Routine Activity Theory d. Differential Association Theory
29. This theory reflects the way people react to a given situation based on the social influences they acquired from
other people that practically determine their behaviors. This theory likewise serves as the learning process of
delinquent behaviors and considered as one of the most important theory in crime causation.
a. Social Disorganization theory
b. Culture Conflict theory
c. Differential Association Theory
d. Social Reaction Theory
30. This theory focuses on the development of high-crime areas associated with the disintegration of conventional
values caused by rapid industrialization, increased migration, and urbanization.
a. Social Disorganization Theory
b. Differential association Theory
c. Culture Conflict Theory
d. Maternal Deprivation and Attachment Theory
31. A stage of development when girls begin to have sexual feeling for their fathers.
a. Oedipus complex c. Doing gender
b. Electra complex d. Chivalry hypothesis
32. The idea that low female crime and delinquency rates are a reflection of the leniency with which police treat
female offenders.
a. Doing Gender
b. Chivalry Hypothesis
c. Masculinity Hypothesis
d. Pre-menstrual Syndrome
33. This part of man’s personality is present at birth representing unconscious biological drives for sex, food and
other life-sustaining necessities and follows the “pleasure principle” which requires instant gratification and has no
concern for the rights of others.
a. Id c. Superego
b. Ego d. Alter ego
34. A phenomenon that refers to the handling down of delinquent behaviours as socially learned and transferred
from one generation to the next taking place mostly among disorganized urban areas.
a. Cultural Transmission c. Social Phenomenon
b. Crime d.DelinquentBehaviour
35. A police officer’s frustration in the realization of his ambition and goals in life both as an officer of the law,
and as a private citizen, can push him to a life of crime, as pointed out in this particular theory.
a. Disorganization Theory
b. Culture Conflict Theory
c. Differential Association Theory
d. Strain Theory
36. It is a proposal of a double male or super male syndrome. This theory held that the possession of an extra Y-
chromosome causes males to be violent and aggressive.
a. XYY syndrome c. XXY syndrome
b. YYX syndrome d. YXX Syndrome
37. It means a condition or malaise in individuals, characterized by an absence or diminution of standards or values.
a. Anomie c. Drift
b. Strain d. Bond
38. This theory reflects the way people react to a given situation based on the social influences they acquired from
other people that practically determine their behaviors. This theory likewise serves as the learning process of
delinquent behaviors and considered as one of the most important theory in crime causation.
a. Social Disorganization theory
b. Culture Conflict theory
c. Differential Association Theory
d. Social Reaction Theory
39. He was the one who introduced the following definition of criminology: “It is the entire body of knowledge
regarding crime as a social phenomenon. It includes within its scope the process of making laws, of breaking laws
and of reacting towards the breaking of the laws”:
a. Raffaelle Garofalo c. Edwin Sutherland
b. Cesare Beccaria d. Paul Topinard
40. He introduced the “Theory of Imitation” which states that individuals copy behaviour patterns of other
individuals, and that those with weaker personalities tend to get influenced easier by those with stronger
personalities:
a. Emile Durkheim
b. Gabriel Tarde
c. Adolphe Quetelet
d. Enrico Ferri
Part II

41-45 Stages of Human Development