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This is the Criminology Reviewer 2021, Multiple Choice Questions in Criminalistics Part 2 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
Continue Practice Exam Test Questions Part 2 of the Series
⇐ MCQ in Criminalistics Part 1 | Licensure Exam for Criminologist
Choose the letter of the best answer in each questions.
51. The inner terminus of the fingerprint pattern.
a. Delta
b. Core
c. Ridges
d. Pores
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Answer: Option B
Explanation:
52. The Secondary Classification of the Thumb, Middle, Ring and Little fingers must be written in small letters.
a True
b. False
c. Partially True
d. Partially False
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Answer: Option A
Explanation:
53. There are three (3) principles of Fingerprint science. Which among the following is not included?
a. Principle of Individuality
b. Principle of Permanency
c. Principle of Infallibility
d. Principle of Uniqueness
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Answer: Option D
Explanation:
54. He is a notorious gangster and a police character who attempted to erase his fingerprint by burning it with acid.
a Locard
b. William West
c. Will West
d. John Dillinger
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Answer: Option D
Explanation:
55. What objects appear as tiny black lines with tiny white dots (called pores) in an inked finger impression?
a. Pores
b. Sweat
c. Furrows
d. Ridges
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Answer: Option D
Explanation:
56. What do you call the separating or spreading apart of two ridges that were previously running side by side?
a. Disjunction
b. Divergence
c. Convergence
d. Looping
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Answer: Option B
Explanation:
57. What kind of pattern has two deltas in which at least one ridge makes a turn through one complete circuit?
a. Loop
b. Accidental Whorl
c. Arch
d. Plain whorl
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Answer: Option D
Explanation:
58. What is the scientific examination of the prints of the soles of the feet?
a. Podoscopy
b. Horoscopy
c. Chiroscopy
d. Flouroscopy
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Answer: Option A
Explanation:
59. When the innermost sufficient recurve contains an uneven number of rods rising as high as the shoulders of the loop, the core is placed upon the end of the center rod whether it touches the looping ridge or not.
a. True
b. False
c. Partially True
d. Partially False
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Answer: Option A
Explanation:
60. Fingerprint pattern are as all fingerprint experts agree.
a. Always inherited
b. Sometimes inherited
c. Inherited as mendelian characteristics
d. Never Inherited
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Answer: Option D
Explanation:
61. It is done by cutting on various parts of the body and leaving scars to form elaborate designs.
a. Tattoo
b. Scarcification
c. Personal Description
d. Anthropometry
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Answer: Option B
Explanation:
62. A system of identification based on the measurements of the varioys bony structure of the human body.
a. Tattoo
b. Scarcification
c. Personal Description
d. Anthropometry
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Answer: Option D
Explanation:
63. Fingerprints offer a means of personal identification
a. Infallible
b. Reliable
c. Dependable
d. All of these
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Answer: Option D
Explanation:
64. No two fingerprints have ever been found alike in many billions of human and automated computer comparisons.
a. The statement is true
b. The statement is false
c. Possibly True
d. Possibly false
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Answer: Option A
Explanation:
65. The first forensic professional organization is
a DNA
b. IAI
c. FBI
d. NBI
View Answer:
Answer: Option B
Explanation:
66. When there are two or more possible Delta which conform to the definition, the one nearest to the core is chosen.
a. True
b. False
c. Partially true
d. Partially false
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Answer: Option A
Explanation:
67. The Delta is placed upon or within the innermost sufficient recurve.
a. True
b. False
c. Partially True
d. Partially False
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Answer: Option B
Explanation:
68. Other visible human characteristics change-fingerprint do no.
a. True
b. False
c. Probably true
d. Probably false
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Answer: Option A
Explanation:
69. He devised the anthropometric system of identification.
a. Alphonse Berthillon
b. Alphense Bertillion
c. Will West
d. William West
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Answer: Option A
Explanation:
70. In his Philosophical Transaction”, he presented his observation on the appearance of the ridges on the fingers and palms.
a. Dr. Marcelo Malpighi
b. Govard Bidloo
c. Sir Francis Galton
d. Dr. Nehemiah Grew
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Answer: Option D
Explanation:
71. Govard Biloo presented the appearance and arrangement of the ridges on a thumb in his thesis entitled ______.
a. De externo Tactus Organo
b. Philosophical Transaction
c. Anatomia Humanis Corporis
d. None of these
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Answer: Option C
Explanation:
72. He described the ridges found on the palmar surface of the hand and the pores which served as the mouth of the sweat glands.
a. J.C.A. Mayer
b. Herman Welcker
c. Dr. Marcelo Malpighi
d. Govard Bidloo
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Answer: Option C
Explanation:
73. He is the father of Criminalistics.
a. Dr. Marcelo Malpighi
b. Govard Bidloo
c. Sir Francis Galton
d. Hans Gross
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Answer: Option D
Explanation:
74. It is the approximate center of a fingerprint pattern usually found in loops and whorls
a. Delta
b. Core
c. Type line
d. Bifurcation
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Answer: Option B
Explanation:
75. When there is a choice between a bifurcation and another type of delta, the bifurcation is selected.
a. True
b. False
c. Maybe
d. Partially True
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Answer: Option A
Explanation:
76. It is the reproduction on some smooth surfaces of the pattern or design formed by ridges on the inside of the end joint of the fingers and thumb.
a. Ridges
b. Pores
c. Fingerprint
d. DNA
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Answer: Option C
Explanation:
77. This principle states that there are no two fingerprints which are exactly alike.
a. Principle of Individuality
b. Principle of Permanency
c. Principle of Infallibility
d. Principle of Constancy
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Answer: Option A
Explanation:
78. Damage to the dermis will not result to permanent ridge destruction.
a. True
b. False
c. Possibly True
d. Possibly False
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Answer: Option B
Explanation:
79. There are families of fingerprint pattern.
a. Two
b. Three
c. Eight
d. Four
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Answer: Option B
Explanation:
80. This are raised strips of the skin on the inside of the end joint of our fingers and thumbs by which fingerprints are made.
a Papillary Ridges
b. Friction Ridges
c. Epidermal Ridges
d. All of these
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Answer: Option D
Explanation:
81. The following are families of fingerprint pattern except
a. Whorl
b. Loop
c. Arch
d. Accidental
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Answer: Option D
Explanation:
82. Can fingerprint be erased?
a. Yes
b. No
c. Maybe
d. I don’t know
View Answer:
Answer: Option B
Explanation:
83. The outer terminus in the pattern arca.
a. Delta
b. Core
c. Bifurcation
d. Ridges
View Answer:
Answer: Option A
Explanation:
84. In loop the ridges are usually circular.
a. True
b. False
c. Partially True
d. Partially False
View Answer:
Answer: Option A
Explanation:
85. The science of palm print identification.
a. Dactyloscopy
b. Dactylography
c. Chiroscopy
d. Podoscopy
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Answer: Option C
Explanation:
86. The symbol for accidental whorl is
a. Z
b. X
c. C
d. D
View Answer:
Answer: Option B
Explanation:
87. It is that part of a loop or whorl in which the core and delta appear which we are concerned in the classification process.
a. Type lines
b. Pattern Area
c. Bifurcation
d. Delta
View Answer:
Answer: Option B
Explanation:
88. There are five (5) types of patterns in the Whorl Family.
a. True
b. False
c. Partially True
d. Partially false
View Answer:
Answer: Option B
Explanation:
89. The upper ten impressions in the fingerprint card are taken individually. These are referred to as the
a. Rolled impression
b. Plain Impression
c. Slapped Impression
d. Flat Impression
View Answer:
Answer: Option A
Explanation:
90. These are the innermost ridges running parallel or nearly parallel to each other which diverge and surround or tend to surround the pattern area.
a. Bifurcation
b. Type Lines
c. Pattern Area
d. Core
View Answer:
Answer: Option B
Explanation:
91. This is the impressions at the bottom of the card that are taken simultaneously without rolling, printing all the fingers of each hand at a forty-five-degree angle and then the thumbs.
a. Rolled Impression
b. Slapped Impression
c. Flat Impression
d. B & C
View Answer:
Answer: Option D
Explanation:
92. In taking fingerprints, the technician must encourage the subject being fingerprinted to relax.
a. True
b. False
c. Partially True
d. Partially False
View Answer:
Answer: Option A
Explanation:
94. The outer terminus of a fingerprint pattern usually found in loops and whorls.
a. Core
b. Delta
c. Ridges
d. Type lines
View Answer:
Answer: Option B
Explanation:
95. The delta must be located in from of the point of divergence of the two type lines which open towards the Delta.
a. True
b. False
c. Possibly True
d. Possibly False
View Answer:
Answer: Option B
Explanation:
96. In this pattern, the ridges enter from either side, re-curve and pass out or tend to pass out the same side they entered.
a. Loop
b. Whorl
c. Arch
d. Tented Arch
View Answer:
Answer: Option A
Explanation:
97. In order to take advantage of the natural movement of the forearm, the hand should be rotated from the more difficult position to the easiest position.
a. True
b. False
c. Partially True
d. Partially False
View Answer:
Answer: Option A
Explanation:
98. It is a type of fingerprint pattern which possesses either an angle or up thrust, or two of the three basic characteristics of the loop.
a. Plain Arch
b. Tented Arch
c. Ulnar Loop
d. Radial Loop
View Answer:
Answer: Option B
Explanation:
99. It is the Ridge counting of a Loop pattern that appears in the Index, Middle and Ring fingers of both hands.
a. Key Classification
b. Major Classification
c. Final Classification
d. Sub-Secondary Classification
View Answer:
Answer: Option D
Explanation:
100. It refers to a bone condition wherein the finger joints cannot be bent.
a. Ankylosis
b. Chiroscopy
c. Calcar
d. Webb Finger
View Answer:
Answer: Option A
Explanation:
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