PRELIM CHAPTER 2

Question 1

What is criminology according to Edwin H. Sutherland

Answer 1

Criminology is the entire body of knowledge regarding crime as social phenomenon

Making of laws,breaking of laws, societys reaction towards breaking of laws

Question 2

A person who is graduate bachelor of science in criminology who has oassed the examination for criminologists and is registered as such by the board examiners of PRC

Answer 2

R.A 6506

Question 3

The term criminology came from the latin word

Answer 3

Crimen(crime)

Question 4

Greek word logos which means to

Answer 4

To study

Question 5

Rafael Garofalo coined the word

Answer 5

Criminologia

Question 6

Paul Topinard coined the term in french

Answer 6

Criminologie

Question 7

Principal division of criminology EPS

Answer 7

Etiology of crime
Sociology of law
Penology

Question 8

The scientific analysis of causation of crimes and criminal behavior

Answer 8

Etiology of crime

Question 9

Investigation if natures of criminal law and its administration

Answer 9

Sociology of law

Question 10

The study of control of crimes and rehabilitation of offender

Answer 10

Penology

Question 11

Nature of criminology

Answer 11

Its applied science
Its social science
Dynamic
Nationalistic

Question 12

Scope in the study of criminology

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Criminal demography-
Criminal epidemiology -
criminal ecology-
Criminal physical anthropology-
Criminal psychology
Criminal psychiatry
Victimology

Question 13

The study of relationships between criminality and population

Answer 13

Criminal demography

Question 14

The study of relationships between environment and criminality

Answer 14

Criminal epidemiology

Question 15

The study of criminality in relation to spatial distribution in a community

Answer 15

Criminal ecology

Question 16

the study of criminal in relation to physical constitutions of men

Answer 16

Criminal physical anthropology

Question 17

The study of human behavior in relation to criminality

Answer 17

Criminal psychology

Question 18

The study of mind relation to criminality

Answer 18

Criminal psychiatry

Question 19

The role of the victim in to commission of crime

Answer 19

Victimology

Question 20

Refers to a group of beliefs or ideas that support specific theory

Answer 20

School of thought

Question 21

Set of statements devised to explain behavior,events or phenomenon especially one that has repeatedly tested and widely advised

Answer 21

Theory

Question 22

Asserts that a person commits wrongful acts due to the fact that he was possessed by a demon

Answer 22

Demological Theory

Question 23

This school of thought is based on the assumption that individuals choose to commit crimes after weighing the consequences of their actions

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Classical school of criminology

Question 24

According to classical criminologists

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Individuals have freewill

Question 25

Founder of classical school of criminology are

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Jeremy Bentham and Cesare Beccaria

Question 26

Best known for his essay “on crimes and punishment “ which presented key ideas on the abolition of torture as legitimate means of extracting confessions

Answer 26

Cesare Bonesana Marchese di Beccaria

Question 27

_____ argued that rhe effectiveness of criminal justice depended more on the certainty of punishment than on its severy

Answer 27

Cesare bonesana marchese di beccaria

Question 28

Beccaria believed that

Answer 28

People want to achieve pleasure and pain Crime provides pleasure to the criminal Famous in sayings “let the punishment fit the crime” -administer pain in appropriate amount to counterbalance the pleasure obtained from pain

Question 29

His contribution to classical school of criminology is the concept of utilitarianism and felicific calculus

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Jeremy Bentham

Question 30

Person always acts in such a way to seek pleasure and avoid pain

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Utilitarian Hedonism-Jeremy Bentham

Question 31

A philosophy which argues that what is right is the one that would cause the greatest good for the greatest number of people

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Utilitarianism

Question 32

A theory that proposes individuals calculate the consequences of his actions by weighing the pleasure(gain) and pain (suffering) he would derive from doing the action

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Felicic calculus or the plesure and pain principle