Colegio de Kidapawan

Quezon Blvd. Kidapawan City

CRIMINOLOGY DEPARTMENT
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COR AD 1
JAN DOMINIC NAVA
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INSTRUCTION: Select the correct answer for each of the following questions. Choose only one answer
for each item by ticking the letter of your choice on the box provided before each choices. STRICTLY NO
ERASURES ALLOWED. USE ONLY BLACK BALLPOINT PEN.
Test I. Multiple Choices
1. This group consists of chronic trouble makers but not dangerous as the super security prisoners. They are not
allowed to work outside the institution.
[]a. maximum security
[]b. minimum security
[]c. Super security
[]d. medium security
2. Bureau of corrections is under ______________.
[]a. DILG
[]b. DOJ
[]c. DOH
[]d. CDK
3. A person who is sentenced to serve a prison term of over three (3) years is a _______.
[]a. Municipal prisoner
[]b. Detention prisoner
[]c. insular prisoner
[]d. City prisoner
4. The head of the BuCor is known as:
[]a. Chief of Bureau of Corrections
[]b. Superintendent of Bureau of Corrections
[]c. Director of Bureau of Corrections
[]d. Warden of Bureau of Corrections
5. Provincial jails were first established in 1910 under the American Regime. At present, who supervise and control
the said jails.
[]a. LGU
[]b. BuCor
[]c. Provincial Government
[]d. BJMP
6. Which of these refers to the assigning or grouping of offenders according to their sentence gender, age,
nationality, health, criminal record, etc?.
[]a. security
[]b. safe-keeping
[]c. Custody
[]d. classification
7. Under the prison service manual, the prescribe color of prison uniform for maximum security prison is
[]a. yellow
[]b. orange
[]c. pink
[]d. blue
8. When an inmate is given a shakedown before admission it means
[]a. Process of identification, record, fingerprint and photography
[]b. Examination for contraband
[]c. His committed papers are delivered to record clerk
[]d. All of these
9. Aside from protecting the public, imprisonment has for its latest objective, the
[]a. segregation
[]b. reformation of offenders
[]c. deterrence
[]d. confinement of offenders
10. In the New Bilibid Prison, the medium security prisoners are confined at
[]a. NBP main prison
[]b. Camp bukang liwayway
[]c. Camp Sampaguita
[]d. Camp Egwas
11. Which of the following is the function of the custodial division?
[]a. supervision of prisoner []b. Escort
[]c. keep records
[]d. All of these
12. The putting of offenders in prison for the purpose of protecting the public and at the same time rehabilitating
them by requiring the latter to undergo institutional treatment program is referred to as:
[]a. Detention
[]b. imprisonment
[]c. Trial
[]d. Conviction
13. The Sablayan Penal Colony and farm, a National Penitentiary in the Philippines under the BUCOR is located in
_________.
[]a. davao
[]b. Leyte
[]c. palawan
[]d. Occidental Mindoro
14. It direct, supervise and control the administration, and operation of all district, city and municipal jails to
implement a better system of jail management nationwide
[]a. BJMP
[]b. DOJ
[]c. BUCOR
[]d. Parole and Probation
15. It exercise supervision and control over provincial jails.
[]a. BJMP
[]b. Provincial Government
[]c. BUCOR
[]d. Parole and Probation

16. An agency under the department of Justice that is charge with custody and rehabilitation of national offenders,
that is, those sentence to serve a term of imprisonment of more than three years.
[]a. BJMP
[]b. Provincial Government
[]c. BUCOR
[]d. Parole and Probation
17. The New Bilibid Prison, the Correctional Institution for Women (CIW), Iwahig Prison and Penal Farm, and
Sablayan Prison and Penal Farm are all under this agency.
[]a. BJMP
[]b. Provincial Government
[]c. BUCOR
[]d. Parole and Probation
18. Prisoners whose sentence are from one day to six months.
[]a. Municipal Prisoners
[]b. provincial prisoners
[]c. City prisoners
[]d. insular prisoners
19. Prisoners whose sentences are from six months and one day to three years.
[]a. Municipal Prisoners
[]b. provincial prisoners
[]c. City prisoners
[]d. insular prisoners
20 A correctional institution that has the authority to detain persons awaiting trial or adjudication or confine
convicted offenders for a short period of time.
[]a. penal colony
[]b. halfway house
[]c. jail
[]d. prison
21. A correctional institution that has the authority to detain convicted offenders for a longer or extended period
of time, including those who are awaiting their death sentence.
[]a. penal colony
[]b. halfway house
[]c. jail
[]d. prison
22. The law creating the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology
[]a. RA 8551
[]b. RA 6975
[]c. RA 6795
[]d. RA 9165
23. Who among the following is the provincial prisoner?
[]a. A prisoner serving a term below six years
[]b. A prisoner serving a term of six years and up
[]c. A prisoner serving a term of six months and one day to three years
[]d. A prisoner serving a term of three years and one day up
24. The ultimate Panoptican prison, a prison that consists of a large circular building containing multi cells around
the periphery was the idea of one among the leaders of the reformation in the persons of[]a. Charles Montesiquieu
[]b. Cessare Beccaria
[]c. William Penn
[]d. Jeremy Bentham
25. A prisoner/inmate maybe taken out of jail only upon
[]a. service of sentence
[]b. Recognizance or bail for his temporary liberty
[]c. Orders of the competent court[]d. All of the above
26. What is called the statutory shortening of the maximum sentence the prisoner serves because good behavior
while in prison?
[]a. Good conduct time allowance
[]b. Probation
[]c. Commutation
[]d. Parole
27. Which among the penal colonies in the Philippines has four sub-colonies?
[]a. Iwahig Penal Farm
[]b. San Ramon Prison and penal farm
[]c. davao penal colony
[]d. Sablayan Penal Farm
28. When a person is sentence to suffer a term of imprisonment from 6 months and 1 day to 3 years or a fine not
more than 1,000 pesos, or both; then he is classified as[]a. Municipal prisoner
[]b. insular/national prisoner
[]c. City Prisoner
[]d. District prisoner
29. The Camp Sampaguita of New Bilibid Prison houses what kind of prisoners?
[]a. Minimum security
[]b. Super maximum security
[]c. Medium security
[]d. minimum security
30. The enactment of RA 6975 created the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology. It operates as a line bureau
under the DILG. This statement is
[]a. true
[]b. false
[]c. partially true
[]d. partially false
31. The Reception and Diagnostic center (RDC), a special unit of prison where new prisoners undergo diagnostic
examination, study and observation for the purpose of determining the programs of treatment and training best
suited to their needs. The RDC is located at
[]a. NBP
[]b. Iwahig Penal farm
[]c. CIW
[]d. Camp bukang liwayway
32. One of the following is an admission procedure in prison that involves the frisking of the prisoner.
[]a. Identification
[]b. Briefing/Orientation
[]c. Searching
[]d. minimum security
33. What is the executive department of the government that supervises and controls the numerous Correctional
Institutions in the Philippines particularly the local jails?
[]a. DOJ
[]b. DILG
[]c. BJMP
[]d. DND
34. Under the prison service manual, the prescribed color of prison uniform for maximum security prison is

[]a. Orange
[]b. yellow
[]c. Brown
[]d. Stripe black and white
35. The principle of separating the homogenous type of prisoners that requires special treatment and custody is
called[]a. Diversification
[]b. Differentiation
[]c. Distinction
[]d. Classification
36. The process of determining the needs and requirements of prisoners for assigning them to programs according
to their existing resources is called
[]a. Diversification
[]b. Differentiation
[]c. Distinction
[]d. Classification
37. One of the following represents the earliest codification of the Roman law, which was incorporated into the
Justinian Code.
[]a. Code of Draco
[]b. Burgundian Code
[]c. twelve tables
[]d. Code of Hammurabi
38. In Penal History, It is considered as the harshest or the cruelest Code written.
[]a. Code of Draco
[]b. Burgundian Code
[]c. twelve tables
[]d. Code of Hammurabi
39. A type of jail which is common to police stations, used for temporary confinement of an individual held for
investigation. Which one is being defined?
[]a. ordinary jail
[]b. provincial jail
[]c. lock up jail
[]d. station jail
40. What law is known as the Indeterminate Sentence Law?
[]a. RA 6975
[]b. Act no. 4103
[]c. RA 7659
[]d. Act no. 4136
41. Good conduct time allowance is a reward for good conduct whereby a prisoner receives partial reduction of his
prison sentence. Under the law, a prisoner of good conduct is entitled to a reduction of how many days each
month for his good behavior in his first two years of imprisonment?
[]a. 5 days each month
[]b. 8 days each month
[]c. 7 days each month
[]d. 4 days each month
42. Good conduct time allowance is a reward for good conduct whereby a prisoner receives partial reduction of his
prison sentence. Under the law, a prisoner of good conduct is entitled to a reduction of how many days each
th
month for his good behavior in his 11 year up of imprisonment?
[]a. 15 days each month
[]b. 18 days each month
[]c. 17 days each month
[]d. 10 days each month
43. Good conduct time allowance is a reward for good conduct whereby a prisoner receives partial reduction of his
prison sentence. Under the law, a prisoner of good conduct is entitled to a reduction of how many days each
rd
th
month for his good behavior in his 3 to 5 year of imprisonment?
[]a. 15 days each month
[]b. 8 days each month
[]c. 17 days each month
[]d. 10 days each month
44. Good conduct time allowance is a reward for good conduct whereby a prisoner receives partial reduction of his
prison sentence. Under the law, a prisoner of good conduct is entitled to a reduction of how many days each
th
th
month for his good behavior in his 6 to 10 year of imprisonment?
[]a. 15 days each month
[]b. 18 days each month
[]c. 17 days each month
[]d. 10 days each month
45. The Industrial Good Time Law
[]a. Act no. 2489
[]b. Act no. 2948
[]c. Act no. 2849
[]d. Act. 3428
46. Peter, a 20-year old drug lord was convicted under the provisions of RA 9165. To which of the following
institution should Peter be imprisoned?
[]a. Mental Hospital
[]b. Jails under BJMP
[]c. CIW
[]d. Iwahig
47. While undergoing diagnostic examination, the prisoner was observed to have violent behavior thus he should
be required to stay in the maximum security facility. Who should recommend his confinement to such security
facility?
[]a. Custodial Correctional officer
[]b. Psychologist
[]c. Social Worker
[]d. Sociologist
48. After several months of trial of his case, Mervin was convicted to serve an imprisonment of 6 months to 3
years. Among the following, which should be the appropriate place of confinement for Mervin?
[]a. jail
[]b. Penal Farm
[]c. national penitentiary
[]d. Mental asylum
49. Under the law, a prisoners who surrenders from escaping because of calamity, immediately within 48 hours
after the pronouncement of the passing away of the calamity, is granted[]a. 1/3 reduction of sentence
[]b. 1/5 reduction of sentence
[]c. 1 1/3 reduction of sentence []d. 15 days reduction of sentence
50. A special group of prisoners composed of incorrigible, intractable and dangerous person who are so difficult to
manage inside prisons
[]a. Medium security prisoners
[]b. Super maximum security prisoners
[]c. Maximum Security prisoners
[]d. minimum security prisoners