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Republic of the Philippines
Asian Development Foundation College

Bachelor of Science in Criminology
Juvenile Delinquency
Tacloban City
Multiple Choice Question. UPPERCASE.
1. The power of the state to give any form of charity of public nature. It is the philosophy
behind the view that youthful offender/child in conflict with the law is the victim of
improper care and that the state is duty bound to provide protection.
a. Patria Potestas c. Parens Patriae
b. Loco Parentis d. Guardian ad Litem
2. Refers to a person below the age of 18 years or those over but are unable to fully take
care of themselves from abuse, neglect, cruelty, exploitation or discrimination because of
physical or mental condition.
a. Juvenile delinquent c. Child
b. Delinquent d. Child in conflict with the law
3. An act lowering the age of majority from 21 to 18 and amending for such purpose
Executive number 209.
a. Republic Act 6809 c. Republic Act 9262
b. Republic Act 9344 d. Republic Act 7610
4. A type of delinquent youth who due to their association with the people in the society
to whom they have learned deviant values and later become an aggressive type of
delinquents.
a. Neurotic c. Social
b. Psychotic d. Sociopathic
5. According to the Psychoanalytical Theory, this component of an individual’s personality

operates under the “reality principle”.
a. Superego c. Conscience
b. Ego d. Id
6. Act or omission which may not be punishable if committed by an adult, but becomes
unlawful when they are committed by a child or a person of tender or one who is in need
or supervision or assistance.
a. Crime c. Status offense
b. Felonies d. Juvenile delinquent
7. Criminal law is defined as a branch of public substantive law which defines crimes,
treats of their nature, and provides for their punishment. A substantive law is one that
creates a right and imposes an obligation.
a. Wholly True c. Wholly False
b. Partially True d. Partially False
8. The Child and Youth Welfare Code was approved on _________.

a. June 10, 1975 c. July 6, 1974
b. December 10, 1974 d. June 17, 1977
9. He proposed that “Criminal behavior is learned”.

a. Cesare Beccaria c. Edwin Sutherland
b. Lloyd Ohlin d. Rafaelle Garofalo
Tacloban City
10. In case of separation between the parents of a child, a child of such age is given by
the court the preference to choose between either parents.
a. 9 years of age c. 10 years of age
b. 7 years of age d. 12 years of age
11. Crime volume is 1, 780; Population is 600,000. Find the crime rate.
a. 296.7 c. 301.2
b. 143.8 d. 112.1
12. The theory of Strain assumes that people are law abiding but under great pressure
that they resort to crime, advocated by Lloyd Ohlin.
13. The Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act was approved on _____.
a. June 10, 2006 c. July 6, 2006
b. April 28, 2006 d. May 13, 2006
14. Ii is a judicial act, a proceeding in re which creates a relationship between two persons
similar to that resulting from legitimate paternity and filiation.
a. Marriage c. Adoption
b. Legitimation d. Annulment
15. When during suspension of the sentence the youthful offender is found to be
incorrigible or is willfully failed to comply with the condition of his rehabilitation program
he shall be:
a. Returned to the committing court for pronouncement of judgment
b. Place him under intervention or diversion program
c. Be subjected to religious counselling
d. Place in a foster home
16. When shall the period of prescription of crimes under the revised penal code
commence?
a. upon the filing of the complaint by the offended party, the authorities/agents
b. upon the filing of the information of the prosecutor
c. upon the discovery of the crime by the offended party, the authorities/its
agents’
d. upon the initiation of the judicial proceedings in any judicial body
17. The first juvenile court was established in ________ in 1899.

a. Michigan c. Arizona
b. Chicago d. California
18. They are unable to acquire a higher academic skill but usually acquire basic skill for
learning, their I.Q range is from 25 to 50.
a. Educable c. Trainable
b. Borderline d. Idiot
19. A type of family model, in which the father is the chief executive officer. The mother
is the operating officer, and implements the father’s policy and manages the staff
(children) that in turn have privileges and responsibilities based on their seniority.
Intimacy runs to the profit.
Tacloban City
a. Team Model c. Military Model

b. Corporate Model d. Theatrical Model
20. Where a person, on separate occasions is convicted of two offenses embraced in the
same title in the Revised Penal Code.
a. Quasi-recidivism c. Reiteracion
b. Habitual Delinquency d. Recidivism
21. If Metro Manila accounts for 26% of the national total crime volume of 84, 875. How
many crimes were reported to the police?
a. 20, 050 c. 32, 644
b. 22, 068 d. 22, 858
22. Article 15, Aggravating circumstance of the Revised Penal Code are governed by
relationship, intoxication and degree of education.
23. Truancy means absence from school without cause for more than ______ not
necessarily consecutive.
a. 30 days c. 5 days
b. 20 days d. 15 days
24. Motive is an unessential element of a crime.

25. It is the mental capacity to understand the difference the difference between right
and wrong.
a. Intent c. Motive
B. Discernment d. Overt Acts
26. Law is a rule of conduct, just, obligatory and promulgated by legitimate authority and
of common observance and benefit.
27. Refers to the standard of behavior or conduct accepted in a given society which is
expected from an individual living in that society.
a. Culture c. Principles
b. Norms d. Theory
28. In the treatise “On Crimes and Punishment” (1764), what was said to be the most
effective means of controlling crimes?
a. Death penalty c. Certainty of Punishment
b. Monetary Penalty d. Life Imprisonment
29. Cesare Beccaria brought a scientific approach in his study of criminology, including
findings from biology and medicine.
Tacloban City
30. It is the part of the statute which declares the legislature that enacted the statute
and gives the statute the force of law.
a. Repealing Clause c. Enacting Clause
b. Separability Clause d. Effectivity Clause
31. 300 crimes; 12 accounts for murder. How many percent of crime volume that belongs
to murder?
a. 2 % c. 5 %
b. 4 % d. 9%
32. It explains delinquency as a result of critical factors such as personality problems to

which misbehavior as a response mechanism.
a. Biogenic Approach c. Sociogenic Approach
b. Psychogenic Approach d. Psychiatric Approach
33. It refers to the principle which acquires a process resolving conflicts with the
maximum involvement of the victim, the offender and the community.
a. Cumulative Justice c. Social Vengeance
b. Restorative Justice d. Retribution
34. A child at risk refers to a child who is vulnerable to and not at the risk of committing
criminal offense.
35. The judges of the first level courts (MTC, MCTC, and MTCC) can conduct preliminary
investigation.
a. Wholly true c. Wholly False
36. As a general rule, a trial shall not exceed 180 days from the first day of trial.
37. It is the process whereby the accused, the offended party and the prosecution work
out mutually satisfactory disposition of the case subject to court approval. It usually
involves the defendant’s pleading guilty to a lesser offense or to only or some or the
counts of a multicount indictment in return for a lighter sentence than that for the graver
charge.
a. Trial c. Pre-trial
b. Plea Bargaining d. Arraignment
38. The stage where the police investigation is no longer a general inquiry into an
unsolved crime but has begun to focus on a particular suspect taken into custody.
a. Preliminary Investigation c. Instigation
b. Custodial Investigation d. Criminal Investigation
39. An accused may defend himself without the assistance of counsel.

Tacloban City
40. Is the rule that trial should be public absolute?

a. Yes, the law provides. c. No, the law does not provide.
b. The law is silent. d. It depends.
41. If out of 1,360 crimes, 987 account for robbery. How many percent of crime volume
belongs to the town?
a. 71.29 % c. 74.48 %
b. 75.63 % d. 72.57 %
42. Family relations are governed by law and customs, practice or agreement which may
be annihilatory of the family shall be recognized or given effect.
43. The 1987 Philippine Constitution provides that “the State recognizes the sanctity of
family and shall protect and strengthen the family as a basic social institution” (Section14,
Article II).
44. Family relations include only those between husband and wife; between, parents and
children; among ascendants and descendants; among brothers and sisters only.
a. Yes, the law provides c. No, the law does not provide.
45. A stage of development when girls begin to have sexual feeling to their father is called
Oedipus complex.
46. He introduced the “Theory of Imitation”.

a. Gabriel Tarde c. Lloyd Ohlin
b. Adolpe Quetelet d. Enrico Ferri
47. A type of temperament of a person who is generally relax and comfortable, loves
luxury and essentially extrovert.
a. Viscerotonic c. Romotonic
b. Cerebrotonic d. Athletic
48. According to this principle, the punishment should be the same as the harm inflicted
on the victim. Therefore, a man who broke the hipbone of another during the fight will
be punished also breaking his hipbone.
a. Law of Talion c. Classical
b. Utilitarianism d. Neo-classical
49. Refers to any maltreatment made either habitual or not be it psychological, physical,
or emotional maltreatment.
a. Child trafficking c. Exploitation
b. Child abuse d. Child prostitution
50. It is the Anti-violence against women against women and their Children Act.
a. Republic Act 9346 c. Republic Act 9262
Tacloban City
b. Republic Act 9344 d. Republic Act 9263
51. In a town which has 780 total crime volume, 360 accounts for murder, 180 for arson,
and 200 for theft. How many percent of crime volume belongs to Arson?
a. 23.07 % c. 22.19 %
b. 21.25 % d. 23.33 %
52. Children conceived or born during the marriage of the parents are legitimate.
c. The law is silent. d. It depends.
53. Children conceived as a result of artificial insemination of the wife with the sperm of
the husband or that of that of a donor or both are illegitimate children.
54. Children conceived and born outside of a valid marriage are illegitimate.
55. A type of family model wherein, the father is the head, the mother is the chief of the
training table and cheerleader. The children are suffering frequent performance anxiety,
play the rules and stay in shape with conformity calisthenics. Competition in in the name
of game, winning is everything.
a. Corporate Model c. Team Model
b. Military Model d. Boarding School Model
56. Paternity and filiation refer to the relationship which exists between husband and wife
only.
57. The legitimacy of a child can be impugned on the ground that it was physically
impossible for the husband to have sexual intercourse with his wife within the first ______
days of the 300 days which immediately preceded the birth of the child.
a. 30 days c. 120 days
b. 60 days d. 180 days
58. These are type of delinquents who become delinquents as a result of distortion in
their personality and their ideas and perception of the society and people around them.
They are likely to commit acts of violence, including murder.
a. Neurotic c. Social
b. Psychotic d. Accidental
59. It is one who without a parent, guardian or custodian; or one who’s parents or other
custodian for good cause desires to be relieved of his care and custody and is contingent
upon the public for support.
a. Neglected Child c. Abandoned Child
b. Dependent Child d. Child at risk
Tacloban City
60. What section of Republic Act 9344, otherwise known as the Comprehensive Juvenile
Justice and Welfare Act, defined child as a person under the age of eighteen (18) years.
a. Section 1 c. Section 3
b. Section 2 d. Section 4
61. As a general rule, illegitimate children shall use the surname of his father.
62. They are those conceived and born outside of wedlock who, by virtue of the
subsequent marriage of their parents to each other, are, by fiction of law considered as
legitimate.
a. Legitimate c. Legitimated
b. Illegitimate d. Adopted
63. Law is a rule of conduct, just, obligatory, and promulgated by legitimate authority
and of common observance and benefit.
64. After the filing of the complaint, the investigating officer shall dismiss or issue a
subpoena after how many days?
a. 5 c. 15
b. 10 d. 20
65. The judges of the first level courts (MTC, MCTC, and MTCC) cannot conduct a
preliminary investigation.
66. The judge cannot change the charge in the complaint.

67. It is an inquiry or proceeding to determine whether there is sufficient ground to

engender a well-founded belief that a crime has been committed and the respondent is
probably guilty thereof, and should be held for trial.
a. Investigation c. Criminal Investigation
b. Preliminary Investigation d. Custodial Investigation
68. The existence of such facts and circumstances as would excite the belief in a
reasonable mind, that a crime has been committed.
a. Factum Probandum c. Factum Probans
b. Proof beyond reasonable doubt d. Probable Cause
69. The Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals does not have any power to review the
findings of the prosecutors in preliminary investigation in liaison with the Doctrine of the
Separation of Power.
Tacloban City
70. Preliminary Investigation is the proceeding for the determination of the existence of
probable cause for the purpose of issuing a warrant of arrest or search warrant.
71. When can an arrest be made?

a. during day only c. during night only
b. during afternoon only d. any time of the day or night
72. Qualified seduction is the seduction of a woman who is single or a widow of good
reputation, over twelve but under eighteen years of age committed by means of deceit.
73. The offended party can go directly to the court to file a criminal action.
74. A criminal jurisdiction is the authority to hear and try a particular offense and impose
the punishment for it.
75. An information is a sworn statement charging a person with an offense, subscribed

by the offended party, any peace officer or other public officer charged with the
enforcement of the law violated.
76. Offenses punishable by imprisonment of less than 4 years, 2 months and 1 day need
not to undergo prior preliminary investigation.
77. Who can give pardon for crimes of Concubine and adultery?
a. Parents c. Offended Spouse
b. President d. Accused
78. What law made Rape a Crime against Persons?

a. RA 9152 c. RA 9624
b. RA 8551 d. RA 8353
79. It is an offense or crime that cannot be prosecuted de officio?

a. Victimless Crimes c. Private Crimes
b. Exclusive Crimes d. Counsel de officio
80. A minor can file a complaint for seduction, abduction or acts of lasciviousness.
Tacloban City
81. Violations of mere rules of convenience designed to secure a more orderly regulation
of society’s affairs.
a. Mala in se c. Mala Prohibita
b. Crime d. Felony
82. Refers of the mistake in the identity of victim.

a. Eror in personae c. Error in personality
b. Error in personae d. Errore in personael
83. According to Albert Bandura, behaviors are transmitted through examples. Children
learn how to behave by fashioning their behavior after of that of others. We call this
theory as:
a. Experience Learning c. Observational Learning
b. Social Learning d. Mock Learning
84. Those which if present in the commission of a crime, do not entirely free the actor
from criminal liability but reduces only the penalty.
a. Aggravating circumstances c. Mitigating circumstances
b. Alternative circumstance d. Justifying circumstances
85. It exist when one enjoys the delight in making his victim suffer slowly and gradually,
causing unnecessary physical pain in the consummation of the criminal act.
a. Mutilation c. Ignominy
b. Cruelty d. Torture
86. It is present when the offender commits any of the crimes against person, employing
means, methods or forms in the execution thereof which tend directly and specially to
insure its execution, without risk to himself arising from the defense which the offended
party might make.
a. Alevosia c. Treachery
b. Abuse d. Surprise
87. The act of making someone believe something that is not true: the act of deceiving
someone.
a. Fraud c. Deception
b. Craft d. Dupery
88. Something that desponds especially in being an unjust or excessive exercise of power.
a. Depression c. Desolation
b. Oppression d. Rejection
89. They are those rights that possessed by every citizen without being granted by the
State for they are given to man by God as a human being.
a. Natural Rights c. Statutory Rights
b. Constitutional Rights d. Civil Rights
90. It is an instinct for self-preservation.

a. Passion c. Violence
c. Ignorance d. Fear
Tacloban City
91. Admission is the declaration of an accused acknowledging his guilt of the offense
charged, or of any offense necessarily included therein.
a. Yes, the law provides. c. No, the law does not provide,
92. A person can be compelled to be a witness against himself.

a. Yes, as the law provides. c. No, the law does not provide.
93. It is the concept of Moral Rightness based on ethics, rationality, law, natural law,
religion, fairness, or equity, along with the punishment of the breach of said ethics.
a. Prudence c. Justice
b. Fortitude d. Temperance
94. Convicted of Rape, accused sought to withdraw his appeal to the Supreme Court on
the ground that he could not afford counsel. Should he be allowed?
a. Yes as the law provides. c. No, the law does not provide.
95. They are those rights which are provided by laws promulgated by the law- making
body and consequently may be abolished by the same body.
a. Statutory rights c. Constitutional rights
b. Political rights d. Civil rights
96. Liberty is not a license or unlimited freedom to act according to one’s will.
97. The right to bail can be availed by a person who is in custody of the law or otherwise
deprived of his liberty.
98. Cesare Lombroso is considered as the Father of Classical Criminal Theory.

b. Partly True d. Partly False
99. Cesare Beccaria brought a scientific approach to criminology, including findings from
biology and medicine.
100. Mala Prohibita are violations of mere rules of convenience designed to secure a more
orderly regulation of the affairs of society.
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Multiple Choice Question. UPPERCASE.

5. According to the Psychoanalytical Theory, this component of an individual’s personality

8. The Child and Youth Welfare Code was approved on _________.

9. He proposed that “Criminal behavior is learned”.

17. The first juvenile court was established in ________ in 1899.

a. Team Model c. Military Model

24. Motive is an unessential element of a crime.

32. It explains delinquency as a result of critical factors such as personality problems to

39. An accused may defend himself without the assistance of counsel.

40. Is the rule that trial should be public absolute?

46. He introduced the “Theory of Imitation”.

b. Republic Act 9344 d. Republic Act 9263

66. The judge cannot change the charge in the complaint.

67. It is an inquiry or proceeding to determine whether there is sufficient ground to

71. When can an arrest be made?

75. An information is a sworn statement charging a person with an offense, subscribed

78. What law made Rape a Crime against Persons?

79. It is an offense or crime that cannot be prosecuted de officio?

82. Refers of the mistake in the identity of victim.

90. It is an instinct for self-preservation.

92. A person can be compelled to be a witness against himself.

98. Cesare Lombroso is considered as the Father of Classical Criminal Theory.

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