MCQ in Criminalistics Part 13 | Licensure Exam for Criminologist

This is the Criminology Reviewer 2021, Multiple Choice Questions in Criminalistics Part 13 as one coverage of Licensure Examinations for Criminologist. The examination is divided into six subjects. First is the Criminal Jurisprudence and Procedure, 20%. Second,  Law Enforcement Administration, 20%. Third,  Crime Detection and Investigation, 15%. Fourth, Criminalistics, 20%. Fifth, Correctional Administration, 10%. Lastly, Criminal Sociology, 15% for a total of 100%. I assume you are looking for a reviewer that will help you achieve your goal to become a professional License Criminologist very soon. Yes, you are in the right place to make your dream come true. Make sure to familiarize each and every questions to increase the chance of passing the Licensure Examinations for Criminologist.

PRC BOARD OF CRIMINOLOGY SYLLABI 2021

1. Criminal Jurisprudence and Procedure – 20%

• Introduction to Philippine Criminal Justice System
• Human Rights Education
• Criminal Law Book 1
• Criminal law Book 2
• Criminal Procedure
• Evidence
• Court Testimony
• Related Special Penal Laws

2. Law Enforcement Administration – 20%

• Comparative Models in Policing,
• Introduction to Industrial Security Concepts
• Law Enforcement Operations and Planning with Crime Mapping

3. Crime Detection and Investigation – 15%

• Fundamentals of Criminal Investigation with
  Intelligence
• Specialized Crime Investigation 1
  with Legal Medicine
• Specialized Crime Investigation with Simulation on Investigation
  and Interview
• Traffic Management and Accident Investigation with Driving
• Technical English 1 (Investigative Report Writing and Presentation)
• Fire Protection and Arson Investigation
• Vice and Drug Education and Control
• Technical English 2 (Legal Forms)
• Introduction to Cybercrime and Environmental Laws and Protection

4. Criminalistics – 20%

• Forensic Photography
• Personal Identification Techniques
• Forensic Chemistry and Toxicology
• Questioned Documents Examination
• Lie Detection Techniques
• Forensic Ballistics

5. Correctional Administration – 10%

• Institutional Corrections
• Non-Institutional Corrections
• Therapeutic Modalities

6. Criminal Sociology – 15%

• Introduction to Criminology
• Theories of Crime Causation
• Human Behavior and Victimology
• Professional Conduct and Ethical Standard
• Juvenile Delinquency and Juvenile Justice System
• Dispute Resolution and Crises/Incidents Management
• Criminological Research 1 (Research methods with Applied Statistics)

Source: RA No. 11131 “The Philippine Criminology Profession Act of 2018” | Professional Regulatory Board of Criminology Resolution No. 01 Series of 2021

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Choose the letter of the best answer in each questions.

601. A pattern in which the ridges flow from one circle to another without recurving, usually forming a slight upward curve in the center having resemblance of an arch

a. Plain arch

b. Tented arch

c.  Plain whorl

d. Plain loop

602.  It is a fingerprint pattern in which the ridge or downward slant from the little finger toward the radius bone or the thumb.

a.  Loop

b. Ulnar loop

c.  Radial loop

d. Tented arch

603.  The system of fingerprinting is referred to as:

a. Poroscopy

b. Podoscopy

c.    Dactyloscopy

d. Palmistry

604.  In taking the fingerprint, it is a must to instruct the subject to:

a. Stiffen the fingers

b. Relax the fingers

c. Wash both hands before taking the prints

d.  Exert pressure on the inking process

605.  It is a ridge in the center of the fingerprint pattern which may resemble a rod, loop, or a spiral in the interior of the pattern.

a.  Core

b.  Loop

c.  Delta

d. Bifurcation

606.  A German criminologist who discovered that fingerprinting for identification purpose were already used in the Far East during the Tang dynasty from 618 to 906  A.D.

a.  Henry Faulds

b. Dr.  Nehemiah Greu

c.  Robert Heindle

d. Alphonse Bertillon

607.  Regarded as the “Father of Fingerprints”

a. Sir Edward Richard Henry

b. Sir Frances Galton

c. Alphonse Bertillon

d. Gilbert Thompson

608.  Basis of fingerprint identification.

a. Pores

b. Ridges

c.  Friction ridges

d. Latent print

609.  Fingerprinting is universally used as a valuable method of identification due to following reason; except

a.  Fingerprints are not changeable

b. There are no two identical fingerprints

c. wounded or burned-out patterns will re-appear

d. It is formed in the ninth month of pregnancy

610.  Period of a person’s life wherein papillary ridges are formed and developed?

a.  3rd month of fetal life

b.    6th months of infancy

c.    At birth

d.    3 months after birth

611.  Nucleus of the fingerprint pattern which may resemble a loop, spiral or rod.

a.  Delta

b. Core

c. Ridge

d.    Whorl

612.  Minimum identical characteristics detail to justify the identity between two points.

a. Nine

b. Twelve

c. Fifteen

d. Eighteen

613.  A British scientist who devoted his work to the study of fingerprint and established his system of fingerprint classification in England.

a.  Sir Francis Galton

b.  Sir Edward Richard Henry

c. Samuel Clemens

d. Gilbert Thompson

614.  An American who first utilized fingerprint classification to prevent forgery in New Mexico.

a.  Sir Francis Galton

b. Sir Edward Richard Henry

c. Samuel Clemens

d.   Gilbert Thompson

615.  First chief of the Identification Bureau in Paris who was known for his anthropometric measurement.

a. Alphonse Bertillon

b. Sir Edward Richard Henry

c. Samuel Clemens

d. Gilbert Thompson

616.  First Filipino expert on fingerprinting.

a. Atty.  Agustin Patricio

b. Gen.  Rafael Crame

c. Atty. Lorenzo Sunico

d. Col. Jose Lukban

617.  First judicial decision within Philippine jurisprudence relying on the science of fingerprinting.

a. People of the Philippines Vs.  Medina, 59, Phil. 330

b. People of the Philippines vs.  Ponferada, 54 Phil, 68

c.  People of the Philippines vs. Arseni, 34 Phil,   750

d.    People of the Philippines vs. Pacana, 47  Phil.   48

618.  Papillary or friction ridges may be located at:

a. Fingers

b.  Palms

c. Soles of the feet

d. All of these

619.  The fingerprint classification which is used in the United States.

a.    Henry System

b.  Batley System

c. Beni’lion System

d. Galton System

620.  Which among the following is considered as a basic type of ridge characteristics?

a. Ridge ending

b.  Bifurcation

c. Dots

d. All of the foregoing

621.  Study of the characteristics formed by the sides of papillary ridges as means of identification.

a. Edgeoscopy

b. Poroscopy

c. Podoscopy

d. Chiroscopy

62.   In taking fingerprints the absolute control of the subject’s hand is:

a. Necessary

b. Unnecessary

c. Optional

d. Excessive

623.  Usually occupational damage to ridge formation is;

a.   Temporary

b.  Permanent

c. Lasting

d. Stable

624.  An inking pad which requires no ink or roller.

a.    Porelon

b.    Special pad

c.    Inkless pad

d. None of these

625.  If the same digits of both hands are missing, the impression is held to be:

a. Plain whorl meeting

b.  Loops

c. Arches

d. Dependent on ridge tracings

626.  Referred to as outer terminus:

a.   Delta

b. Dots

c. Bifurcation

d.  None of these

627.  Failure to clean the slab after using it produces:

a. Impression of false markings

b. Accentuation of patterns

c. Pattern reversals

d. Difficulty in photographing

628.  In taking fingerprints are rolled away from the body of the subjects.

a.  All fingers

b. All finger except the thumbs

c.  Both thumbs

d. Both little fingers

629.  Impressions which are taken simultaneously on the fingerprint card are referred  to as:

a. Rolled impressions

b.  Plain impressions

c. Fragmentary impressions

d. Visible impressions

630.  Known for his rule which states that No two individuals in the world are exactly the same size and  that human skeleton  does  not change  after  20 years.

a. Darwin

b.  Mendel

c. Calton

d. Bertillon

631.  The easiest means of discovering latent fingerprints is to view the area:

a.  Obliquely

b. About half an inch distance

c. Directly

d. about one inch distance

632.  Fingerprint pattern in which two or different type of pattern are represented.

a.   Accidental loop

b. Central pocket loop

c. Double loop

d. Whorl

633.  A distinct fingerprint pattern with two separate loops, with its respective shoulder and deltas.

a. Double loop

b.  Accidental loop

c. Central pocket loop

d. whorl

634.  A fingerprint pattern with a single loop but has two deltas.

a. Accidental loop

b. Double loop

c.  Whorl

d. Central pocket loop

635.  What pattern bears a downward slant of ridge from the thumb toward  the little  finger?

a. Tented Arch

b. Radial loop

c. Ulnar loop

d. Loop

636.  A fingerprint pattern which one or more ridges enter on either side of the impression by a recurve, and terminate on the same  side where  the  ridge has  entered.

a. Tented arch

b.  Radial loop

c. Ulnar loop

d.  loop

637.  It is triangular shaped and formed by the bifurcation of a ridge at the outer portion of the pattern.

a. Latent prints

b. Ridge

c. Core

d. Delta

638.  The three basic types of ridge characteristics are:

a. Enclosure, long ridges and upthrusts

b. Criss-crossing ridges, incipient ridges

c. Ridge endings, dots and bifurcations

d. Type lines, converging ridges and recurving ridges

639.  A single ridge that bifurcates and meets again to form a single ridge is called:

a.  Enclosure ridge

b. Dot ridges

c.  Short ridges

d. Resembling a loop

640.  Which part of the human body has no papillary ridges.

a.  Soles of the foot

b. Palm

c.  Finger

d.   Both A and B

641.  Points often missed in rolling impression.

a.  Bifurcation

b. Core

c. Delta

d.  Ridge

642.  Fingerprints left at the crime scene which may be an impression or imprint.

a.   Latent print

b. Pattern

c. Whorl

d. Arch

643.  Which among the following is not considered as a basic fingerprint pattern?

a.  Loop

b. Arch

c.  Whorl

d.   Accidental

644.  A fingerprint pattern in which the ridges form a sequence of spirals around core axes.

a.    Whorl

b. Central packet loop

c. Double loop

d.  Accidental

645.  Refers to the study of sweat gland openings found on papillary ridges as a means of identification.

a.    Poroscopy

b.  Edeoscopy

c. Podoscopy

d.  Dactyloscopy

646.  A ridge which forks out into two ridges.

a.   Delta

b.  Bifurcation

c. Core

d.  Pores

647.  Fingerprints pattern in which the downward slant or ridges from the little finger toward the thumb.

a.  Ulnar loop

b.    Radial loop

c. Arch

d. Whorl

648.  To help identify a subject who is an alien, the most vital information to be obtained at the Bureau of Immigration and Deportation is…

a.  Educational attainment of the alien

b.  Residence of the alien

c. Occupation of the alien

d.  Port of entry of the alien

649.  In tracing a suspected person at large in a criminal case, the least vital among the following would be…

a.  His appearance and how he dresses

b.  Known associates and companions

c. His occupation or means of livelihood

d. Where the suspect hang’s out

650.  What does the first two digit of a person’s Social Security Number indicates?

a.  The occupation of the member at the time of registration

b. The month of registration

c. The income bracket or group where the member belongs

d. The region where the member originally registered

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