200+ Crime and Society Solved MCQs

1.

Who defined crime as the intentional Act in violation of the criminal law committed detense of excuse and penalized by the state

A. Paul Tappan
B. Lombroso
C. Edwin Sutherland
D. Howard Becker
Answer» A. Paul Tappan
2.

Differential association theory of crime was developed by

A. George Ritzer
B. Howard Becker
C. Edwin Sutherland
D. Lombroso
Answer» C. Edwin Sutherland
3.

Who coined the term Criminology?

A. Raffaele Garosfalo
B. Beccaria
C. Lombroso
D. Becker
Answer» A. Raffaele Garosfalo
4.

Who is considered as the father of Criminology?

A. Adler
B. Sutherland
C. Lombroso
D. Becker
Answer» C. Lombroso
5.

............. crime is used to mean Socio-economic crimes?

A. White collar
B. Public property
C. Cyber
D. Private property
Answer» A. White collar
6.

The person who commits a crime is known as ...........

A. Gambler
B. Criminal
C. Prisoner
D. Accused
Answer» B. Criminal
7.

Scientific study of crime and criminal behavior is known as ...........

A. Criminal study
B. Pathology
C. Psychology
D. Criminology
Answer» D. Criminology
8.

The term criminology was coined in the year?

A. 1885
B. 1800
C. 1774
D. 1856
Answer» A. 1885
9.

............... is the stirring up of feelings against lawful authority?

A. Sedition
B. Revolt
C. Rebellion
D. Treason
Answer» A. Sedition
10.

Who propounded the theories of differential association?

A. Adler
B. Sutherland
C. Cotron
D. Lombroso
Answer» B. Sutherland
11.

Theoretical explanation of criminal behavior is classified into ............. categories.

A. six
B. seven
C. three
D. four
Answer» A. six
12.

Hacking belongs to which type of crime?

A. Crimes against individual
B. Sedition
C. Crimes against property
D. Cyber crime
Answer» D. Cyber crime
13.

Who among the following uses symbolic interactionism to evaluate crimes?

A. Howard Becker
B. Merton
C. Alison knees
D. Sobah
Answer» A. Howard Becker
14.

National Cyber crime unit is the Cyber crime inspection wing of which country?

A. USA
B. Australia
C. U.K
D. Austria
Answer» C. U.K
15.

Federal Bureau of Investigation is the domestic security service of which country?

A. Pakistan
B. China
C. U.S.A
D. Hungary
Answer» C. U.S.A
16.

Halocaust is considered as ..........?

A. Crime against Humanity
B. International crime
C. Crime against property
D. Cyber crime
Answer» A. Crime against Humanity
17.

Who among the following applied positivist approach in analyzing crimes?

A. Merton
B. Sakov
C. Lombroso
D. Becker
Answer» C. Lombroso
18.

According to Lombroso criminals are not born criminals but they are.........?

A. Criminaloids
B. Very innocent
C. Situational criminals
D. Hackers
Answer» A. Criminaloids
19.

Who revised the classical theory in 1810-1819?

A. Classicist
B. Neo classist
C. Functionalists
D. Neo-functionalists
Answer» B. Neo classist
20.

Who wrote the book ‘On crimes and Punishments’?

A. Lombroso
B. Tarde
C. Becker
D. Beccaria
Answer» D. Beccaria
21.

In which year did the book ‘On crimes and punishments’ was published?

A. 1764
B. 1808
C. 1777
D. 1882
Answer» A. 1764
22.

‘Primary deviance’ is the core concept associated with........... theory of deviance.

A. Labelling theory
B. Anomic theory
C. Differential association theory
D. Psycho-analytical theory
Answer» A. Labelling theory
23.

Who put forward Psycho-analytical theory of crime?

A. Sigmund Freud
B. Alfred Adler
C. Karen Horney
D. William Wyndt
Answer» A. Sigmund Freud
24.

Which theory emphazises on the physiology of the criminals?

A. Theory of evolutionary atavism
B. Psycho-analytic theory
C. Anomic Theory
D. Labelling theory
Answer» A. Theory of evolutionary atavism
25.

Malicious morphing belongs to.................. crime.

A. Seditious
B. Cyber
C. Racial
D. Misogynistic
Answer» B. Cyber
26.

National crime Records Bureau of India was founded in the year

A. 1986
B. 1982
C. 1950
D. 1996
Answer» A. 1986
27.

Sociogenic approach to the study of crime focuses on....... ?

A. Psychological factors
B. Ecological factors
C. Social factors
D. Racial factors
Answer» C. Social factors
28.

According to differential association theory............ leads to crimes.

A. Social interactions
B. Psychological exchanges
C. Social conflicts
D. Social changes.
Answer» A. Social interactions
29.

The headquarters of National Crime records bureau is located in ............

A. Mumbai
B. Bangalore
C. Poona
D. New Delhi
Answer» D. New Delhi
30.

Which theory states that criminals are born with the traits of primitive men?

A. Psycho-analytical theory
B. Differential association theory
C. Evolutionary atavism
D. Labelling theory
Answer» C. Evolutionary atavism
31.

Among the following embezzlement belongs to which category of crime?

A. Crime against property
B. Cyber crime
C. Crime against humanity
D. Crime against women
Answer» A. Crime against property
32.

Among the following who led the Italian school of positivist criminology?

A. Becker
B. Merton
C. Lombroso
D. Adler
Answer» C. Lombroso
33.

Famous criminologist Cesure Lombroso was born in the year ..........

A. 1835
B. 1830
C. 1820
D. 1881
Answer» A. 1835
34.

The book ‘Crime : It’s causes and Remedies’ was written by

A. Merton
B. Lombroso
C. Sutherland
D. Becker
Answer» B. Lombroso
35.

The book ‘Criminal Man’ was written by .............

A. Sutherland
B. Sumner
C. Mayo
D. Lombroso
Answer» D. Lombroso
36.

The article’ Physiogonomy of the anarchists’ was written by ..............

A. Bakunin
B. Merton
C. Lombroso
D. Durkheim
Answer» C. Lombroso
37.

Who wrote the famous book Criminal woman?

A. Fulbright
B. Lombroso
C. Adler
D. Becker
Answer» B. Lombroso
38.

‘Espionage’ can be categorized as ...............

A. Crime against state
B. Crime against humanity
C. Cyber crime
D. Horific crime
Answer» A. Crime against state
39.

Who wrote the article ‘Illustrative studies in Criminal Anthropology’?

A. Merton
B. Horton
C. Lombroso
D. Becker
Answer» C. Lombroso
40.

The article ‘Why Criminals of Genius Have No Types’ was written by ......

A. Lombroso
B. Merton
C. Beccaria
D. Horton
Answer» A. Lombroso
41.

The article ‘Criminal anthropology applied to Pedagogy’ was written by ........

A. Sutherland
B. Lombroso
C. Fullbright
D. Becker
Answer» B. Lombroso
42.

Name the criminologist who wrote the article ‘Was Columbus morally responsible’

A. Lombroso
B. Merton
C. Sutherland
D. Durkheim
Answer» A. Lombroso
43.

Who wrote the book Criminal Sociology?

A. Enrico Ferri
B. Garofalo
C. Lombroso
D. Merton
Answer» A. Enrico Ferri
44.

Who among the following was the student of Lombroso?

A. Merton
B. Becker
C. Sutherland
D. Enrico Ferri
Answer» D. Enrico Ferri
45.

Argentina’s penal code was based on the works and findings of which criminologist?

A. Sutherland
B. Ferri
C. Becker
D. Merton
Answer» B. Ferri
46.

Who wrote the book ‘The positive school of Criminology’?

A. Enrico Ferri
B. Garofalo
C. Lombroso
D. Merton
Answer» A. Enrico Ferri
47.

Among the following who focused on the psychological characteristics of criminality?

A. Garatolo
B. Ferri
C. Sutherland
D. Merton
Answer» B. Ferri
48.

“Detective resistance to criminal tendencies and temptations due to that ill balanced, impulsiveness which characterizes children and savages”. Who provided this definition for criminal psychology?

A. Paretto
B. Sutherland
C. Ferri
D. Lombroso
Answer» C. Ferri
49.

Famous Italian criminologist Enrico Ferri was born in the year........

A. 1856
B. 1850
C. 1848
D. 1840
Answer» A. 1856
50.

According to whom crime prevention methods to be the mainstay of law enforcement rather than punishment of criminals?

A. Garofalo
B. Becker
C. Lombroso
D. Ferri
Answer» D. Ferri
51.

Among the following who opposed the biological positivism of Lombroso and emphasized psychological and social positivism.

A. Ferri
B. Sutherland
C. Durkheim
D. Garofalo
Answer» A. Ferri
52.

This famous Italian criminologist was a member of the Italian Socialist party and got elected to the parliament in 1886.

A. Lombroso
B. Ferri
C. Garofalo
D. Paretto
Answer» B. Ferri
53.

Name the criminologist who edited the famous Italian newspaper ‘Avanti’

A. Ferri
B. Lombroso
C. Merton
D. Garofalo
Answer» A. Ferri
54.

Among the following who argued that crime can be understood only if it is studied by scientific methods?

A. Raffaele Garofalo
B. Ferri
C. Lombroso
D. Sutherland
Answer» A. Raffaele Garofalo
55.

This Italian criminologist worked as a jurist

A. Ferri
B. Lombroso
C. Sutherland
D. Garofalo
Answer» D. Garofalo
56.

Name the criminologist who rejected the free will aspect of Lombroso’s classical school.

A. Garofalo
B. Ferri
C. Paretto
D. Merton
Answer» A. Garofalo
57.

Which criminologist used Charles Darwin’s biological principles for his law of adoption relating to criminal circumstances

A. Merton
B. Lombroso
C. Garofalo
D. Ferri.
Answer» C. Garofalo
58.

Which criminologist said that those criminals with permanent psychological anomaly should be sentenced for death because they are incapable of social life?

A. Garofalo
B. Merton
C. Ferri
D. Lombroso
Answer» A. Garofalo
59.

Famous Italian criminologist Raffaele Garofalo was born in the year .............

A. 1850
B. 1851
C. 1840
D. 1845
Answer» B. 1851
60.

Who proposed long time imprisonment for those criminals who are fit only for the life of nomadic hordes?

A. Ferri
B. Lombroso
C. Garofalo
D. Sutherland
Answer» C. Garofalo
61.

Along with Cesare Lombroso and Raffaele Garofalo who formed the Italian school of Criminology?

A. Merton
B. Beccaria
C. Adler
D. Ferri
Answer» D. Ferri
62.

Among the following which criminologist examined the skull of the notorious criminal Giuseppe villela?

A. Lombroso
B. Ferri
C. Merton
D. Garofalo
Answer» A. Lombroso
63.

The term ‘atavism’ is associated with the theory of ..........

A. Merton
B. Ferri
C. Lombroso
D. Garofalo
Answer» C. Lombroso
64.

Which criminologist wrote the book ‘On crimes and Punishments’?

A. Lombroso
B. Cesare Beccaria
C. Garofalo
D. Ferri
Answer» B. Cesare Beccaria
65.

Among the following criminologists who opposed torture and death penalty?

A. Garofalo
B. Merton
C. Beccaria
D. Ferri
Answer» C. Beccaria
66.

Name the genius who excelled in both the fields of criminology and penotogya

A. Beccaria
B. Lombroso
C. Ferri
D. Garafelo
Answer» A. Beccaria
67.

Famous criminologist Beccaria was born in the year ............

A. 1738
B. 1750
C. 1779
D. 1720
Answer» A. 1738
68.

Who is considered as the father of modern criminal law

A. Paretto
B. Ferri
C. Lombroso
D. Beccaria
Answer» D. Beccaria
69.

According to John Bessler whose work’s had a profound influence on the founding fathers of the United States?

A. Beccaria
B. Lombroso
C. Adler
D. Paretto
Answer» A. Beccaria
70.

Who is considered as the father of criminal justice

A. Parsons
B. Pareto
C. Durkheim
D. Beccaria
Answer» D. Beccaria
71.

Name the famous criminologist who born in the Italian city of Milan?

A. Lombroso
B. Beccaria a
C. Garofalo
D. Ferri
Answer» B. Beccaria a
72.

Name the criminologist who founded ‘the academy of fists’ the famous Italian criminology study group?

A. Beccaria
B. Garofalo
C. Ferr
D. Lombroso
Answer» A. Beccaria
73.

Name the criminologist who was profoundly influenced by the thoughts of French enlightenment thinker Helvetius?

A. Ferri
B. Merton
C. Beccaria
D. Lombroso
Answer» C. Beccaria
74.

Beccaria’s ground breaking work ‘on crimes and punishments’ was published in the year- -----

A. 1750
B. 1720
C. 1780
D. 1764
Answer» D. 1764
75.

Name the criminologist who advocated for reform in the criminal low system?

A. Merton
B. Beccaria
C. Garofalo
D. Ferri
Answer» B. Beccaria
76.

Who argued that criminal justice should conform to rational principles?

A. Beccaria
B. Garofalo
C. Paretto
D. Sutherland
Answer» A. Beccaria
77.

Among the following who introduced the concept of natural law in the field of criminology?

A. Hugo Grotius
B. Beccaria
C. Garofalo
D. Lombroso
Answer» A. Hugo Grotius
78.

Name the criminologist who wrote the book ‘on the law of war and peace?

A. Beccaria
B. Garofalo
C. Grotius
D. Ferri
Answer» C. Grotius
79.

Which criminologist wrote the book ‘Free seas’

A. Grotius
B. Ferri
C. Beccaria
D. Lombroso
Answer» A. Grotius
80.

Name the criminologist who emphazised the notion of ‘rights’ in criminology?

A. Ferri
B. Grotius
C. Lombroso
D. Beccaria
Answer» B. Grotius
81.

Name the criminologist who uses the philosophical theories of social contract and utility for developing his own theory?

A. Beccaria
B. Grotius
C. Garofalo
D. Lombroso
Answer» A. Beccaria
82.

Who argued that punishment is justified only to defend social contract

A. Grotius
B. Adler
C. Lombroso
D. Beccaria
Answer» D. Beccaria
83.

Who argued that the method of punishment selected should be that which serves the greatest public good?

A. Lombroso
B. Beccaria
C. Garofalo
D. Ferri
Answer» B. Beccaria
84.

Name the criminologist who took utilitarian approach towards criminal justice?

A. Beccaria
B. Grotius
C. Ferri
D. Garofalo
Answer» A. Beccaria
85.

According to whom the purpose of punishment is to create a better society, not revenge

A. Adler
B. Merton
C. Beccaria
D. Lombroso
Answer» C. Beccaria
86.

Who argued that punishment should serve to deter others from committing crimes, and to prevent the criminal from repeating his crimes

A. Beccaria
B. Lombroso
C. Garofalo
D. Ferri
Answer» A. Beccaria
87.

Who argued that the temporal proximity of the punishment is needed to maximize deterrence value?

A. Merton
B. Ferri
C. Garofalo
D. Beccaria
Answer» D. Beccaria
88.

Name the criminologist who emphazises the importance of discouraging criminal activity?

A. Garofalo
B. Beccaria
C. Paretto
D. Lombroso
Answer» B. Beccaria
89.

Who argued that when a punishment quickly follows a crime, then the two ideas of crime and punishment will be more closely associated in a person’s mind?

A. Garofalo
B. Beccaria
C. Paretto
D. Lombroso
Answer» B. Beccaria
90.

Name the criminologist who argued that the swiftness of punishment has the greatest impact on deterring others from crime?

A. Pareto
B. Lombroso
C. Beccaria
D. Ferri
Answer» C. Beccaria
91.

Who argued that there is no justification for severe punishment?

A. Merton
B. Beccaria
C. Ferri
D. Lombroso
Answer» B. Beccaria
92.

Which criminologist argued that there are limits both to how much torment we can endure and also how much we can inflict?

A. Beccaria
B. Merton
C. Grotius
D. Ferri
Answer» A. Beccaria
93.

Who argued that in time we will naturally grow accustomed to increases in severity of punishment and thus the initial increase in severity will lose its effects?

A. Lombroso
B. Beccaria
C. Garofalo
D. Ferri
Answer» B. Beccaria
94.

Name the criminologist who argued that punishments should be in degree to the severity of the crime?

A. Ferri
B. Garofalo
C. Grotius
D. Beccaria
Answer» D. Beccaria
95.

Who argued that treason is the worst crime because it harms the social contract?

A. Merton
B. Adler
C. Lombroso
D. Beccaria
Answer» D. Beccaria
96.

Name the criminologist who suggested that crimes against property should be punished by fines?

A. Merton
B. Lombroso
C. Beccaria
D. Ferri
Answer» C. Beccaria
97.

Who argued that the best ways to prevent crimes are to enact clear and simple laws, reward virtue and improve education?

A. Sutherland
B. Beccaria
C. Ferri
D. Lombroso
Answer» B. Beccaria
98.

Three tenets served as the basis of Beccaria’s theories on criminal justice. Free will and rational manner are the two among them. Which is the third one?

A. Manipulability
B. Flexibility
C. Rigidity
D. Uneasiness
Answer» A. Manipulability
99.

Who argued that because people act out of self-interest and their interests sometimes conflicts with societal laws, they commit crimes?

A. Beccaria
B. Sutherland
C. Garofalo
D. Ferri
Answer» A. Beccaria
100.

According to Beccaria if the punishment outweighs the benefits of the crime, then the crime became on ............... choice.

A. Logical choice
B. Illogical choice
C. Hard choice
D. Easy choice
Answer» B. Illogical choice
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