DR. P. OCAMPO COLLEGES INC.

De Mazenod Avenue Extension, Cotabato City

Tel: (064) 421-5697 Fax no. (064) 421-6549
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CRIMINOLOGY DEPARTMENT

MOCK BOARD EXAMINATION

CORRECTIONAL ADMINISTRATION
S.Y. 2022 - 2023

INSTRUCTION: Select the correct answer for each of the following questions. Write the
letter of your choice on the answer sheet provided.

C. General services branch

1. It is the authority of the President D. Mess services branch
of the Philippines to suspend the
execution of a penalty, reduce the 7. Operation conducted by the BJMP
sentence and extinguish criminal wherein a prisoner maybe checked at any
liability. time. His beddings, lockers and personal
A. Parole belongings may also be opened at anytime,
B. Pardon in his presence, whenever possible. This
C. Executive clemency practice is known as:
D. President’s clemency
A. Check and balance
2. B.J.M.P. is under the administration B. Inventory
of the: C. S.O.P.
A. Executive Department D. Operation Greyhound
B. D.I.L.G.
C. P.N.P 8. Pardon cannot be extended to one of
D. none of theses the following instances.

3. There are three (3) casework A. Murder

techniques applied by the parole officer, B. Rape
which one is not. C. Brigandage
A. The trick and treat techniques D. Impeachment
B. The executive techniques
C. The guidance, counseling and 9. It refers to commission of another
leadership techniques crime during service of sentence of
D. The manipulative techniques penalty imposed for another previous
offense.
4. The basis of this old school of
penology is the human free-will. A. Recidivism
A. Penology School B. Quasi-recidivism
B. Neo-classical C. delinquency
C. Classical School D. City prisoner
D. Positivist
10. A person who is detained for the
5. This helps the prisoner/detainee in violation of law or ordinance and has not
the resolution of his problems been convicted is a –
A. Meeting
B. Recreation A. Detention Prisoner
C. Working B. Municipal Prisoner
D. Counseling C. Provincial Prisoner
D. City Prisoner
6. Takes charge of financial matters 11. Forms of executive clemency, EXCEPT:
especially in programming, budgeting,
accounting, and other activities related A. commutation
to financial services. It consolidates B. amnesty
and prepares financial reports and C. reform model
related statements of subsistence outlays D. probation
and disbursements in the operational of
the jail. 12. It is that branch of the
A. Budget and finance branch administration of Criminal Justice System
B. Property and supply branch charged with the responsibility for the
custody, supervision, and rehabilitation 20. The highest official of the bureau of
of the convicted offender. corrections.

A. conviction A. Director
B. penalty B. Chief of Executive
C. corrections C. Secretary of the DND
D. punishment D. Prison Inspector
13.Pardon cannot be exercised in which of 21. It plays a unique role in the moral
the following instances? and spiritual regeneration of man

A. before conviction A. vocation

B. after conviction B. education
C. before trial C. work
D. before conviction and before trial D. religion

14. This is a procedure which permits a 22. It is a penalty wherein a convicted

jail prisoner to pursue his normal job person shall not be permitted to enter
during the week and return to the jail to the place designated in the sentence or
serve his sentence during the weekend or within the radius therein specified,
non-working hours. which shall not be more than 250 and not
less than 25 kilometers from the place
A. amnesty designated.
B.probation
C. good conduct time allowance A. Prison sentence
D. delayed sentence B. Pecuniary liability
C. Destierro
15. The following are the justifications D. none of the above
of punishment, EXCEPT:
23. Punishing a criminal to serve as
A. Retribution example to others is a theory of
B. Happiness ______________.
C. deterrence
D. expiration or atonement A. Self-defense
16. Pardon is exercised when the person B. Exemplary
is___________________. C. Social defense
D. Equality
A. already convicted
B. about to be convicted 24. The purpose of the decree on probation
C. not yet convicted shall be to :
D. serve the sentence
A. provide an opportunity for the
17. This kind of punishment will be given reformation of a penitent offender which
to the offender by showing to others what might be less probable if he were to
would happen to them if they have serve a prison sentence.
committed the heinous crime. B. Prevent the commission of offenses
C. Promote the correction and
A. Protection rehabilitation of an offender by
B.Lethal injection providing him with individualized
C. Deterrence treatment
D. Stoning D. All of these

18. For a convicted offender, probation is 25. The most common problem of the
a form of _______. National prison is

A. Punishment A. Excessive number of escapes

B. Enjoyment B. Disagreement about their mess
C. Treatment C. Overcrowding
D. Incarceration D. Lack of adequate funding

19. For amnesty to be granted, there 26. Nobody can assume the suffering for a
should be _________. crime committed by others.

A. Recommendation from U.N. A. Justice

B. Application B. Legal
C. Recommendation from C.H.R C. Personal
D. Concurrence of the congress D. Certain
27. These are the factors considered in
diversification, EXCEPT; A. partially exempted
B. conditionally exempted
A. Age of offenders C. exempted
B. Sex of offenders D. not exempted
C. Mother of offender
D. Medical condition 35. It is an act of clemency which changes
a heavier sentence to a less serious one
28. This branch takes charge of the or a longer term to a shorter term.
preparation of the daily menu, makes
foodstuff purchases, prepares and cooks A. Amnesty
the food and serves it to the inmates. B. Reprieve
It maintains a record of daily purchases C. commutation
and consumption and submits a daily D. none of these
report to the Warden.
36. ____________ is an act of grace and
A. General Services Branch the recipient is not entitled to it as a
B. Budget and Finance matter of right.
C. Mittimus Computing Branch
D. Mess services Branch A. pardon
B. probation
29. Under Article VII, Section 10 C. parole
paragraph (B) of the Philippines D. none of these
Constitution, pardoning power is vested
with the 37. In probation system’s philosophy and
concept, it is stated that the individual
A. Department of Justice has the ability to _____ and to modify
B. Chief Executive his anti-social behavior with the right
C. Judiciary kind of help.
D. Legislative
A. challenge
30. It is a temporary stay of execution of B. change
sentence. C. none of these
D. aggravate his behavior
A. reprieve
B. communication 38. The Bureau of Corrections is under the
C. pardon _________________.
D. amnesty
A. DSWD
31. Parole is not matter of B. Department of Justice
_____________________. C. DILG
D. Department of Health
A. privilege
B. grace 39. A person who is sentenced to serve a
C. right prison term of over three (3) years is a
D. requirement _________________.

32. This group consists of chronic A. Municipal prisoner

troublemakers but not as dangerous as the B. Detention prisoner
super security prisoners. They are not C. National or Insular prisoner
allowed to work outside the institution. D. City prisoner

A. maximum security prisoners 40. The Head of Bureau of Corrections is

B. minimum security prisoners known as –
C. super security prisoners
D. medium security prisoners A. Chief of the Bureau of Corrections
B. Director of the Bureau of Corrections
33. Parole is granted by the C. Superintendent of the Bureau of
Corrections
A. President D. None of these
B. Director of Prison
C. Board of Pardons and Parole 41. What are the type of Jails under the
D. Court Supervision of the BJMP?

34. A recipient of absolute pardon is A. Provincial and sub-Provincial Jails

________ from civil liability imposed B. City and Municipal Jails
upon him by the sentence.
C. District Jails 48. The open institution usually a penal
D. Insular Jails farm or camp is known as the

42. Provincial Jails were first A. NBP

established in 1910 under the American B. Maximum Security Institution
Regime. At present, who supervises and C. Medium Security Institution
controls the said jails? D. Minimum Security Institution
A. BJMP
B. DOJ 49. What is the act of grace from a
C. Provincial Government sovereign power inherent in the state
D. LGU which exempts an individual from the
punishment which the law imposes or
43. What is the primary purpose of prescribes for his crime, extended by the
imprisonment? President thru the recommendation of the
Board of Parole and Pardon?
A. Rehabilitation and Reformation
B. Punishment A. Amnesty C. Parole
C. to stand trial B. Pardon D. Probation
D. socialization 50. Under the prison service manual, the
prescribed color of prison uniform for
44. A place of confinement for persons maximum security prison is –
awaiting trial or curt action and where
the convicted offenders serve short A. Orange
sentences or penalty of imprisonment is B. Blue
known as: C. Yellow
D. Pink
A. Jail
B. Penitentiary 51. When an inmate is given a “shakedown”
C. Lock-up before admission it meant
D. Detention Cells
A. Process of identification, record,
45. A warrant issued by the court bearing fingerprint and photograph
its seal and signature of the judge B. Examination for contraband
directing the jail or prison authorities C. His commitment paper are delivered to
to receive the convicted offender for record clerk
service of sentence or detention is known D. All of these
as –
52. An inmate maybe granted parole if he
A. Mittimus –
Sentence Mittimus
C. Detention Mittimus A. earned good conduct time allowance
D. Detention Warrant credit
B. serve minimum sentence
46. The maintenance of care and C. earned good behavior while serving
protection accorded to people who by prison term
authority of law are temporarily D. all of these
incarcerated for violation of laws and
also those who were sentenced by the 53. Aside from protecting the public,
court to serve judgment is called – imprisonment has for its latest
objective, the –
A. custody
B. classification A. reformation of offenders
C. safe-keeping B. segregation of offender
D. caring C. Deterrence
E. protection D. Confinement of Offenders

47. Which of these refers to the 54. In the New Bilibid Prison, the medium
assigning or grouping of offenders security prisoners are confined at –
according to their sentence, gender, age,
nationality, health, criminal record, A. NBP Main Prison
etc.? B. Camp Sampaguita
C. Camp Bukang Liwayway
A. classification D. Medium Security Prison
B. security
C. custody 55. Who is charged for the hearing of
D. safe-keeping disciplinary cased in prison?
A. Classification Board C. Inspect security devices
B. Administrative Board D. Conduct disciplinary hearing
C. Parole Board
D. Disciplinary Board 63. When a jailbreak, escape or riot is in
progress or has just been perpetuated in
56. The form of conditional release that the jail, the officer at the control
is granted after a prisoner has served a centers shall immediately:
portion of his sentence in a correctional
A. Sound the alarm
A. Conditional pardon B. Notify the nearest police precinct
B. Parole C. locked prisoners in their respective
C. Probation cells
D. Commutation D. call the warden or the director

57. Which of the following is the 64. In case of mass jailbreak, all members
function of the Custodial Division? of the custodial force shall be
immediately issued firearms and assigned
A. Supervision of prisoners to critical posts to:
B. Keep records
C. escort A. plug off the escape routes
D. all of the above B. protect the other
C. to shoot the escape inmates
58. The putting of offenders in prison D. to give warning shots
for the purpose of protecting the public
and at the same time rehabilitating them 65. Which of these is known as the Adult
by requiring the latter to undergo Probation Law, which grants probation to
institutional treatment program is prisoner sentenced to term in prison of
referred to as: not more than six (6) years –

A. imprisonment C. trial A. PD 603

B. conviction D. detention B. PD 869C
C. RA 6127
59. The Sablayan Penal Colony and Farm, a D. PD 698
National Penitentiary in the Philippines
under the BUCOR is located in 66. The continuing relationship between
_________________. probation officer and probationer is
known as –
A. Palawan
B. Davao A. Affiliation Guidance
C. Zamboanga B. Supervision
D. Occidental Mindoro C. Pre-sentenced Investigation
D. Probation Guidance
60. In Babylon, about 1990 BC, credited 67. Those who have been once on probation
as the oldest code prescribing savage under the Probation Law:
Punishment but in fact ____ is older.
A. are qualified to apply for probation
A. Hammurabic Code B. are disqualified to apply for
B. Justinian Code probation
C. Sumerian Code B. may be granted for another probation
D. Code of Draco C. should be confined in prison

61. The penalty imposed for offenders 68. This pillar/component of our criminal
must be certain. This means that: justice system is responsible in the
confinement, rehabilitation and
A. The guilty one must be the one to be reformation of convicted offenders.
punished, no proxy.
B. No one must escape its effect A. law enforcement
C. It must be equal for all persons B. court
D. The consequence must be in accordance C. prosecution
with law. D. corrections

62. The following are the duties of the 69. The traditional and most basic
custodial force in prison, except: goal of corrections.

A. Censor offender’s inmate A. retribution

B. Escort inmates B. Incapacitation
C. deterrence C. Bureau of Corrections
D. rehabilitation D. Parole and Probation Administration

70. The attempt to prevent future 77. The New Bilibid Prison,The
crimes through fear of punishment. Correctional Institution for Women
(CIW),Iwahig Prison and Penal Farm, and
A. retribution Sablayan Prison and Penal Farm are all
B. Incapacitation under this agency.
C. deterrence
D. rehabilitation A. BJMP
B. Provincial Government
71. The task of changing an offender’s C. Bureau of Corrections
attitude so that he or she may not commit D. Parole and Probation Administration
another crime in the future.
78. An attached agency of the Department
A. retribution of Justice which provides a less costly
B. incapacitation alternative to imprisonment of offenders
C. deterrence who are likely to respond to
D. rehabilitation individualized community based treatment
72. This refers to the phased re-entry of programs.
an offender into society rather than the A. BJMP
usual abrupt re-entry at the end of a C. Bureau of Corrections
prison sentence. B. Provincial Government
D. Parole and Probation Administration
A. reintegration
B. Incapacitation 79. Prisoners whose sentences are more
C. deterrence than three years to death penalty.
D. rehabilitation
A. municipal prisoners
73. They were known as Bridewells, which B. city prisoners
started in 1553 and served as training C. provincial prisoners
schools for delinquent youths, provided D. insular prisoners
housing and support for older and poorer
persons, and detained vagrants. 80. Prisoners whose sentences are from one
day to six months.
A. House of Corrections
B. common jails A. municipal prisoners
C. workhouses B. city prisoners
D. penal colonies C. provincial prisoners
D. insular prisoners
74. It direct, supervise and control the
administration and operation of all 81. A prison model which sought penitence
district, city and municipal jails to ( hence the term penitentiaries) through
implement a better system of jail total individual isolation and silence.
management nationwide.
A. Director of Bureau of Prisons A. Pennsylvania Prison Model
B. Director of Bureau of Corrections B. Work Release
C. Secretary of Department of Justice C. Auburn Prison Model
D. Head of Parole and Probation D. Halfway Houses
Administration
82. Incarcerated persons are allowed to
75. It exercise supervision and control work outside the institution that houses
over provincial jails. them.

A. BJMP A. Pennsylvania Prison Model

B. Provincial Government B. Work Release
C. Bureau of Corrections C. Auburn Prison Model
D. Parole and Probation Administration D. Halfway Houses

76. An agency under the Department of 83. An alternative granted after a

Justice that is charged with custody and convicted person served a part of his
rehabilitation of national offenders, sentence and is allowed to complete a
that is, those sentenced to serve a term sentence at large, subject to
of imprisonment of more than three (3) restrictions and supervision.
years
A. BJMP A. probation
B. Provincial Government B. parole
C. work release concurrence of congress?
D. halfway houses
A. Probation C. Pardon
84. An alternative to incarceration B. Amnesty D. Parole
and allows convicted persons to remain at
large under varying degrees of 91. The Parole and Probation
restriction and supervision and certain Administration administers a
conditions. ________corrections program.

A. probation A. Institutional
B. parole B. Community – based
C. work release C. Integrated
D. halfway houses D. Traditional

85. A correctional institution that has 92. A minimum and maximum amount of time
the authority to detain persons awaiting to be served in prison is referred to us
trial or adjudication or confine _______.
convicted offenders for a short period
of time. A. A corporal punishment
B. An indeterminate sentence
A. halfway house C. A determinate sentence
B. Jail D. A capital punishment
C. penal colony
D. farm 93. Juana was required to provide
financial remuneration for the losses
86. A correctional institution that has incurred by the victim. What is the type
the authority to detain convicted of sentence?
offenders for a longer or extended period
of time, including those who are waiting A. Payment
their death B. Restitution
sentence. C. Retribution
A. halfway house D. Fines
B. jail
C. halfway house 94. An ________ program employs
D. prison prisoners in various product or good
producing tasks
87. The law creating the Bureau of
Jail Management and Penology (BJMP). A. Agricultural
B. Industrial
A. RA 8551 C. Operational
B. RA 6975 D. Administrative
C. RA 9165
D. BP 22 95. What crimes apparently have no
complaining victims such as gambling,
88. Who among the following is the prostitution and drunkenness?
provincial prisoner?
A. prisoner serving a term below six (6) A. Complex Crime
years B. Blue Collar crimes
B. prisoner serving a term of six (6) C. Organized crimes
years and up D. Victimless crimes
C. prisoner serving a term of six (6)
months and one (1) day to three (3) years 96. Which agency performs the evaluation
D. prisoner serving a term of three (3) of prisoner’s fitness and qualifications
years and one (1) day up for the grant of pardon or parole?

89. This theory in criminology states A. Bureau of Corrections

that are totally responsible for their B. Board of pardon and Parole
behaviors and the stress in more on the C. President
effect of their felonious act than upon D. Secretary, DOJ
the criminal himself.
97. Which of the following should be a
A. Positivist Theory probationer NOT DO?
B. Biological Theory
C. Biological Theory A. Make periodic report
D. Classical Theory B. Go and play in the gambling den
90. Which of the following is exercised C. Work regularly to support family
by executive elementary with the D. Stay away from bad associates.
98. The Supreme Court automatically
reviews the cases of criminals convicted
and meted out the penalty of

A. 12 years 6 months and one day

B. Life imprisonment
C. Death
D. 6 years one month and one day

99. The ________ theory in crime

causation focuses on the criminal
disorders, chromosomes irregularity and
abnormal brain activity.

A. Neo Classical
B. Positivist
C. Classical
D. Italian

100. What correctional institution

houses accused persons awaiting trial?

A. Rehabilitation center
B. Halfway house
C. Jail
D. Prison

**Nothing follows*