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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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